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I mentioned to my mum a few years ago that, as a vegetarian, I didn't want to have a "normal" xmas dinner. She asked if I liked tagines, as she'd found a nice recipe for a veggie tagine that she wanted to try out. I said yeah, sure, love a tagine. I've had tagine for the last 4 years now. Be careful what you wish for!
That's a lot of tagine.
I love many of the flavours of this time of year (the spices, cranberries, winter veggies, nuts, festive drinks etc) and enjoy playing around with them for the main family meals, but it's disappointing when you visit meat eaters who assume you're happy to just have the soggy, insipid veggie components of their otherwise meaty blowout (which often includes goose/duck/lard fat roasted potatoes and sprouts with lardons). Frankly if the veg is an after thought, it's hard not to feel like one too.
One year, we went to my aunt and uncle's. Neither cook. They assemble food, order it in, eat out or boil it until it no long resembles anything that might once have lived, plant-based or otherwise. All I was given for the whole three course Christmas lunch was some melon, and a mountain of Brussels sprouts.
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I mentioned to my mum a few years ago that, as a vegetarian, I didn't want to have a "normal" xmas dinner. She asked if I liked tagines, as she'd found a nice recipe for a veggie tagine that she wanted to try out. I said yeah, sure, love a tagine. I've had tagine for the last 4 years now. Be careful what you wish for!