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Okay, so I've taken up the slightly stressful but potentially enjoyable task of preparing a Christmas dinner for my family this year. Yes, this is the first time I'll be cooking for more than two people but that isn't the issue I'm most concerned about. The problem is that my boyfriend and I are both vegetarians, while most of my family is still carnivorous. So I'm seeking to find two different entrees that will satisfy both preferences while still complimenting each other very well. I know I could just look around on any recipe website, but I'd first like to see what you guys might have in mind. :)

>> No.4085334

>christmas
>no meat

why don't you and your boyfriend just make an exception and eat some god damned pig or whatever the fuck the rest of your family eats.

a) no main dish will ever satisfy anyone without meat in it, least of all for christmas. You can serve a big-ass fish all christmas'ed up, but only if you are also serving some kind of meat like pork or fowl.

b) No-one will want your vegetarian substitute main course, so don't even try to make it and tell everyone "BUT IT'S REALLY GREAT IT'S JUST LIKE REAL MEAT!!"

So just make like one meat, and one... I don't even fucking know what a vegetable main course is for christmas, fucking potatoes? That's what I eat a lot of anyway.

>> No.4085335

That is truly a great moment in your life. I personally train very hard to one day have the opportunity to do something just like that. It's like, the dream of my life to cook x-mas dinner.

Anyway, what's a traditional Christmas dinner for your family? Apart from the turkey and the gravy, IMO, it's easy to not put the organs in the stuffing and the rest is all super vegan-friendly sides.

>> No.4085336

Fuck the trolls, OP. If you want to prepare meat for them and tofurkey for you, go for it. A ton of my friends are vegan and they apparently really love tofurkey, so you should definitely give that a go.

>> No.4085340

>>4085334
no one should have to compromise their beliefs to placate family.

>> No.4085348

>>4085340
Then OP should never have offered to make Christmas dinner. Cooking meat is one thing, bit eating it is another so OP wouldn't necessarily have to abandon their beliefs to make this work. However theres also thr notion that a cook who doesnt taste while cooking should stay out of the kitchen altogether. So this is kind of a lose lose situation.

>> No.4085351

>>4085334
It's not like I'm going to force them to eat something without meat in it, I was just wondering what two meat and non-meat entrees would go well together in a christmas dinner. My family loves veggies just as much as they love meat.

>>4085335
Yeah, at first I was reluctant, but I figured it was time that I gave back to my family after so many years of them feeding me. I hope you get that chance too someday.

Our Christmas dinners have always changed throughout the years, mostly because one side of my family is asian while the other side is mexican, and sometimes we include traditional american-style entrees so it's always mixed up. I've only been a vegetarian for a year and a half so I always used to eat whatever they cooked, but now I want to experiment with different vegetable entrees.
>>4085336
Thanks, I was thinking about using some soy-based product like tofurky but I think that's more of a sandwich thing. I'm not a vegan, either so I was thinking of making some sort of creamy casserole or something.

>> No.4085354

>>4085340
Why not? It's just whether OP eats a bird or not or whatever this one time when they're cooking a big christmas meal.

The more important question is what OP is going to do about the gravy. Going to make vegetarian gravy? Not use the drippings from the meat? Or make two gravies? And stuffing goes inside a turkey right? So it's okay to eat things that have been cooked inside a flesh-vessel, as long as there's no flesh IN it?

When your beliefs are as retarded as vegetarianism, the least you can do is compromise them to placate your family.

>> No.4085356

>>4085351

No OP, you can get special holiday tofurkey roasts. Link related.

http://www.tofurky.com/tofurkyproducts/holiday_products.html

>> No.4085363

>>4085354
I plan on making a vegan mushroom gravy that I picked up last year for thanksgiving. Everyone loved it and no one questioned whether or not it had meat in it so I might as well use it again.

>>4085356
Oh, well that's awesome. :) Thanks!

>> No.4085453

>Chicken Parm.
>Eggplant Parm.

Thank me later.

>> No.4085463

Don't buy a tofurkey. They're really easy to make for you, at any size you'd like.
http://vegweb.com/recipes/traditional-tasting-tofurkey
I've made this the past three thanksgivings and just let it cook all day while the sides cook, basting it with the balsamic & herb sauce.

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>>4085324
>>4085351
I'll bet OP's boyfriend wasn't a vegetarian before he met OP, the things we do for pussy...
>OP implying that anyone 'loves' veggies as much as they love meat