Christmas Vegan

A whole month since my last vegan post! Shocking! Blame it on moving house, apathy or laziness, alternatively, blame it on all three!
So, it’s Christmas Day tomorrow and apart from making a nut roast earlier, I don’t really know what we’ll be having. I’ve never been one to decide on a meal weeks in advance as I don’t know whether I’ll feel like eating it in on the day. I know nut roast sounds a bit of a veggie cliche but I haven’t had one for years and they always taste really good cold (especially with the pickled walnuts I got from www.britishcornershop.co.uk). For breakfast we’re definitely having banana pancakes which have become an absolute favourite with junior since I first made them last week. They are just so quick and easy to do and junior likes to smear them with ‘Sweet Freedom Natural Sweetener’ from www.veganstore.co.uk

Something traditional that I always do at Christmas is the cake. Now, when living in England it was so easy to get vegan marzipan ready to roll out and place on my cake. Not in Skopelos. Was I able to find any almonds that weren’t still in there skins? No I wasn’t. Hence my fingers are worn to the bone from slipping skins of flipping almonds and then breaking them into pieces and trying to grind them fine enough to make into marzipan. You will therefore have to excuse this picture of my cake with the rather ‘rustic’ looking marzipan layer on top.

It may not look like the sanitised version of marzipan that I am used to but hey, it tastes fine (although junior declined to finish her piece earlier – fussy child). I dispensed with the icing because, who likes icing? I’ve always found that the icing on top pushes the cake over from sweet to sickly sweet.
Whatever you’re eating tomorrow (hopefully vegan!!) I hope you have a fantastic time and a very Happy Christmas.