Nigel Slater’s Christmas vegetarian loaf

If you don’t eat meat, this loaf could be your centrepiece – or else you could just enjoy it with the roast turkeyI made a vegetable loaf the other day, seed-encrusted and flecked with herbs, a practice run for the big feast itself. A tangle of root vegetables, parsnips and carrots mostly, coarsely grated and held together with buttery onion and a little egg, the plan is that it will be the vegetarian option, though it would make a fine accompaniment for the roast bird. Soft and givi