{"id":2468,"date":"2013-12-25T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2013-12-25T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T05:44:11","slug":"holiday-meal-fun-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/holiday-meal-fun-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Meal Fun 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be celebrating Christmas today I hope you have a merry one &#8211; if it&#8217;s just another day, I hope it&#8217;s awesome too!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in Orlando this week, but the day before we left I whipped up a little mini dinner for JC and I. Or, it was supposed to be a mini dinner, but those plans didn&#8217;t quite work out, as I started making potatoes, acorn squash, green beans, vegan bigos (a traditional Polish fried sauerkraut stew) and a very large bowl (but smaller than usual) of Sa\u0142atka Jarzynowa (another traditional Polish dish &#8211; this time a cold salad with lots of vegetables) that has become an important part of my holiday celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11542342963\/player\/ae3a548d3a\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also cooked up the Vegetarian Holiday Roast we picked up from an Ohio Whole Foods on a previous visit to the USA a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s made by Five Star Foodies, a company based out of Cincinnati, and since it wasn&#8217;t something we could buy in Toronto we wanted to give it a try. This roast was pretty amazing, and I&#8217;ll have to get into it a bit more on a future lazy vegan Friday post. But it&#8217;s a couple of pieces of seitan, stuffed with onion celery stuffing, and wrapped in yuba (tofu sheet). They also provided a thick cooking gravy. But I also made a huge pot of my own.<\/p>\n<p>Another item we picked up while in the USA (though this might actually be available in Canada as well) is 365 Whole Foods Vegan Stuffing Mix. I normally love making stuffing, but we had this, I was trying to make a quick dinner, and I wanted to give it a try before we left for the States again.<\/p>\n<p>This was the spread:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11542238304\/player\/bf2b1fefe5\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite thing about any special event\/holiday\/occasion\/etc is the food, and this time of year is no different. I love the different vegan and veganizeable food traditions that surround it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/11542197105\/player\/cb5091a975\" height=\"357\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here was the <strong>Sa\u0142atka Jarzynowa<\/strong> recipe for this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5 cup dry white navy beans (2 cans or about 1.5 Cup dry beans soaked and boiled)<\/li>\n<li>3 small carrots, chopped, boiled<\/li>\n<li>2 potatoes, diced, boiled<\/li>\n<li>1 celerac, diced, boiled.<\/li>\n<li>0.5 parsnip<\/li>\n<li>3 diced pickles &#8211; kosher salty or polski orgorki<\/li>\n<li>1 small onion<\/li>\n<li>1 chopped apple<\/li>\n<li>1 can of drained peas.<\/li>\n<li>1 small jar of your favourite vegan mayonaise (about 1.5 cups) &#8211; I used Mayola.<\/li>\n<li>3-4 tablespoons of yellow or dijon mustard<\/li>\n<li>Salt &amp; Pepper to taste<\/li>\n<li>parsley as a garnish (though personally, I hate the stuff)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using dry beans, soak them overnight or for at least 8 hours before you cook them. They need to boil for about 45 minutes after that.<br \/>\nPeel the celerac, and cut in half. Quarter the potatoes, carrots, parsnip. Throw them all in a pot and boil until the celerac is tender. This will take about 20 minutes.<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re waiting for your vegetables to boil, you can start dicing some other veggies. Finely chop the pickles and the onion and throw in a bowl. Drain the can of peas and add peas to bowl.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5292372598\/player\/67749d0080\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After your boiled veggies are done, you might want to drain them, and let them cool off for a few minutes. Then dice them so that they&#8217;re small pieces about the size of a few peas.<\/p>\n<p>Throw these veggies in to the same pot with your peas, onion, and pickle and mix gently. Add about 3\/4 of a cup of the mayo, and 3-4 tbsp mustard, and salt and pepper, and a bit of parsley. Stir it all together. Cover the salad with a thin layer of mayo, Put something pretty on the top with parsley or other veggies.<\/p>\n<p>Eat and enjoy. (Secret truth: It&#8217;s even better after a day or two)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Do you have any favourite vegan holiday food traditions?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be celebrating Christmas today I hope you have a merry one &#8211; if it&#8217;s just another day, I hope it&#8217;s awesome too! We&#8217;re in Orlando this week, but the day before we left I whipped up a little mini dinner for JC and I. Or, it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,356],"tags":[891],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polish-food","category-toronto-2","tag-polish-vegan-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}