Christmas Eats 2012

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’d like to share with you Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas breakfast, and Christmas dinner. 

Not a beautiful picture, but soo good.

On Christmas Eve I had a salad, a two cheese lasagna from VegNews, Parisian bread, and sparkling grape juice. The lasagna is made with a macadamia ricotta and cashew cheese sauce. Seriously, this is the way to do lasagna.

I did not stuff myself at dinner because, to be perfectly honest, I filled up on holiday punch and Shirley temples. But hey, leftover lasagna is never a bad thing.

I made Christmas breakfast for 6 people: my dad, my stepmother (Michelle), Nana, Papa Mike, and my sister Mariel. 

I made 3 batches of Post Punk Kitchen’s Puffy PillowPancakes with a side of blackberry-strawberry-pineapple fruit salad. To go along with the pancakes I made Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s cinnamon roll filling (to use instead of butter) and icing so the pancakes would be cinnamon roll pancakes. They were a hit! Super fluffy, just what you’d want in a pancake. 

Michelle made some pig bacon for everyone else while I enjoyed Tofurky Smoky Maple Tempeh Bacon

Michelle's griddle made cooking breakfast SO MUCH faster!

Delicious!

Mariel and I ate veggie soup with a piece of toast on top for an appetizer while everyone else had non-vegetarian/vegan French onion soup.

 

Dinner for me was a field roast, roasted potatoes, green beans, and bread with sparkling cranberry juice.

 

For dessert, I made eggnog cupcakes (I used Silk nog because we couldn’t find any So Delicous nog). The recipe came from Veg*n Amuse Bouche, which she adapted from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World’s basic vanilla cupcake. The batter had eggnog instead of milk, nutmeg and cinnamon, and rum. These were amazing. I sprinkled a little nutmeg on top. Everyone liked them. In my Nana's words, “MMM…these are beyond words.”

 

So there you have it. My Christmas eats.