Christmas Recipe Round-Up: Part 3

Onto the big meal! For the appetizer posts click here and here. There is no way to really make this meal look pretty, unfortunately. Most traditional roast dinners are a bunch of veg, potatoes and meat smushed together on a plate and covered with gravy. Because we were hosting non-vegetarians and because my mom is a traditionalist at heart, we went with the traditional roast dinner, just subbing out the meat for a nut loaf that I made (and this is NOT your average blah nut loaf, I promise!). That way my mom could have all her sides, her cranberry sauce, her gravy, and our guests could see that Christmas Day doesn't have to be so different just because you're vegetarian.