{"id":378,"date":"2008-10-22T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/novice-or-nouvelle-%e2%80%93-have-yourself-a-merry-meat-free-christmas\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:30:34","slug":"novice-or-nouvelle-%e2%80%93-have-yourself-a-merry-meat-free-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/novice-or-nouvelle-%e2%80%93-have-yourself-a-merry-meat-free-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Novice or nouvelle \u2013 have yourself a merry, meat-free Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Novice or nouvelle \u2013 have yourself a merry, meat-free Xmas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Six dishes for Christmas 2008.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Vegetarian Society has created two brand new menus for this year\u2019s Christmas festivities called Novice and Nouvelle. Each has a starter, main and dessert. They each use similar ingredients such as leeks, chestnuts, oranges, raspberries, white marzipan and are packed with gorgeous flavours. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Novice meal is aimed at first time veggies or individuals who don\u2019t want to spend too much time in the kitchen. Start with tangy leek and ginger soup, followed by festive fillet with orange and pomegranate sauce, while dessert is in the shape of raspberry frangipane tarts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those who like to be creative in the kitchen there is the Nouvelle menu \u2013 created by the ?Cordon Vert cookery school. Start with crunchy leek and chestnut purses with ginger and red pepper relish. The main is a carrot and cashew bare flan on a bed of hot puy lentil and dill salad with an orange and cardamom sauce. Then, if you have room, round off the meal with a few scoops of raspberry, marzipan and brandy ice cream served with lemon palmiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The two menus \u2018Novice and Nouvelle\u2019 are available as recipe cards, readers can get hold of them by calling 0161 925 2000. Grassington\u2019s \u2013 official sponsor of the Vegetarian Society\u2019s Christmas Campaign 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our cookery school also runs Christmas cookery courses too, for more info visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cordonvert.co.uk\">www.cordonvert.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novice or nouvelle \u2013 have yourself a merry, meat-free Xmas. Six dishes for Christmas 2008. The Vegetarian Society has created two brand new menus for this year\u2019s Christmas festivities called Novice and Nouvelle. Each has a starter, main and dessert. They each use similar ingredients such as leeks, chestnuts, oranges, raspberries, white marzipan and are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/novice-or-nouvelle-%e2%80%93-have-yourself-a-merry-meat-free-christmas\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}