As a vegan, I'm not that attracted by the traditional Christmas dinner. This year, I was invited to celebrate Christmas with my family in law, and I was asked to cook for two of us. Instead of anything traditional, I decided to cook a trip across Africa from East to West: starting in Ethiopia with msir wot and kik alica, finishing in Senegal with joloff rice and casamance (vegan) chicken yassa.
And for this year's New Year's Eve, we'll have tex-mex (vegan for me, and non-vegan for my wife) food at home. Because there's so much more to delight ourselves than the "traditional" recipes.
Hurrah! I specifically designed the recipes to have a life before and after Christmas too so that's great to hear. PS - missing one or two recipes won't make a huge difference as you know.
As a vegan, I'm not that attracted by the traditional Christmas dinner. This year, I was invited to celebrate Christmas with my family in law, and I was asked to cook for two of us. Instead of anything traditional, I decided to cook a trip across Africa from East to West: starting in Ethiopia with msir wot and kik alica, finishing in Senegal with joloff rice and casamance (vegan) chicken yassa.
And for this year's New Year's Eve, we'll have tex-mex (vegan for me, and non-vegan for my wife) food at home. Because there's so much more to delight ourselves than the "traditional" recipes.
That sounds incredible! I hope you had a great Christmas and here’s to a flavour packed 2024!
The recipes sound delicious, but that link just goes to their landing page, no sign of them!
Thanks so much Alicia, I made an error with it. Now edited! I hope you enjoy them
That green masala chicken is going straight on the "must make" list. I need to check the fridge to see if we can have it for dinner tonight!
Hurrah! I specifically designed the recipes to have a life before and after Christmas too so that's great to hear. PS - missing one or two recipes won't make a huge difference as you know.
How lovely to get such a wide ranging and in-depth view of festive fare. An engrossing read as always
Thank you Mike! I enjoyed working on this project with you and writing this piece
Rreally interesting piece, Mallika - many thanks!
Thanks so much for reading it and participating in our Guild event Elisabeth!