 And this is Andy Faulkner's mum. I'm the mum. And you know your way around the kitchen better than me, so we're going to... Maybe, I don't know a tour of that. We've got some carrots and we've got some potato chips and pumpkin. Oh, pumpkin. Yeah, and we're going to put something my grandson loves. And it's sweet potato chips. Get it off the shelf and put it in 10 minutes later, it's ready. Oh, really? 10 minutes? Oh, nice. The chippies are ready in 10 minutes, vegan chippies. The sweet potato chips, they're very good. It sounds lovely. Yeah, they're nice. Have you seen these? I haven't seen these before. This is a feast. It looks wonderful. Feast on this festive ring. Yes, and it is oat and pecan-based filling. Sprinkle with sage. It just sounds delicious. We'll take that out. And Julie, what do you think of this one here? Tell them what it is. Yes, yes. This is a Christmas roast succulent soy protein infused with fragrant herbs and spices and finished with a sweet and tangy cranberry glaze. Oh, yummy. That sounds fantastic. This is plants with a bit of attitude. Oh, very good. Which sounds very nice. Let's get around. I hope you didn't have to make the glaze for this. This is wonderful, isn't it? They've marinated it for us in a batch. Yes, yes, it's all ready. You know where we got these from? Did you get them from? Woolies. Yeah, that's... Woolies have... Woolies Australia. Woolies. And fray. They are very cool as far as looking after us, looking after vegans. They have a lot of vegan meats. And how long have you been vegan for, Julie? Only ten years. Ten years. Tien years. I changed. Ten years? Yes. Only ten years? Well, yeah. That's not long. Only ten years. That's not long. That's longer than me, nearly. I feel very guilty. When did you go vegan in 2013? About then. About then. About here. I saw a show on television on the ABC which showed the large animals, you know the cattle and so on and being herded up a race and one poor animal had broken its leg and this terrible person was prodding it with an electric prod as it tried to get up the race and it could hardly move with its broken leg and he forced it up and I thought this is wrong, something has to happen and the next thing Andy came over and he became vegan and I thought that's what I can, I didn't know what to do but I thought I had to do something and he came over and I thought that's what I'll do and also at the same similar time my grandson had become vegan and he was with me a lot and I was giving him meals quite a lot and so I thought I'd join him and I haven't looked back. Wow, what a lovely story, well it's a lovely ending story isn't it, it's a lovely, never ending situation. Lovely outtimes to a terrible, terrible story really but I'm glad that you took the change that you needed. Yes, yes, yes, yes I am too, I'm so sorry I didn't do it earlier, Kate leave that there and we'll put that on. And what's this one here, tell the people about it. This is mine, this is what I got, this is the veggie roast and it is so yummy and you can make a glaze to put on this too. This one you put in earlier and you put a bit of relish on there. That's right, that's it, simply green tomato chutney on top and you can chop that in half before or after you cook it and then you can have two meals because it's quite a lot in one roll. It's nice, I can vouch for this one, I love it, I eat it cold sometimes, it's lovely on sandwiches, it's lovely, you put in your little flatbread or your sandwich, beautiful. It's really like a cold sandwich meat as well, should we do a taste test together? Yep, yep, yep, yep. Let's get to cooking. So we've found some vegan gravy as well too. Oh did you, we've found the vegan gravy, God love you. Okay so, so what do we do here, do you reckon we've got any glasses? Because I know you've got some glazes which is nice, we've got a primary glaze for this but we'd also maybe we'd want a little bit of gravy too because we know a lot of people love a bit of gravy. Yeah they do, they do, there's no doubt about it. Tablespoons of greens roast meat gravy in large jug and add one cup of boiling water. This is easy. It's pretty easy to do, isn't it? Yes, oh gosh. And it's good, it's so good. I think it's a state of mind, it's what you, it's what you put, you know, you want to put into your body. Exactly. And once you get past that, I'm putting different things in my body now and you do it and you don't think about it, how long it takes or doesn't take to make. Exactly. That's fine. But it does take no longer and I know from the many years that I was doing it, it doesn't take longer than a normal, no, exactly right. Anyone like Julie out there who's around Julie's age when she went vegan, it's never too late to go vegan. No, definitely not. Okay, that's the green tomato chutney, we have to put, have to open that. Okay, you want me to give it a crack? Give it a crack and I've got that there if you can't, oh you don't need that. You don't need that. Yes, that's all that protein mate. Yes, that's all that tofu. That's all that goodness, that's all the goodness. That's what that is. It feels like it's got the vegins, hot sauce in the door really. My stepfather used to put veg in hot sauce and gravy, we've got veg in, we've got all the little things, all the little… You know what? Is it okay? Does it need a little bit of… It's got that veggie stock roundness, got savory flavour, it's just salty enough. Oh! I think they really nailed it and whatever, whatever um, metric you do some of the water Yeah just a cup of water, I use the 250ml. So you use a coffee mug? Yeah, yeah just a coffee mug. It's perfect. Look at my thing turned out. That's from me drawing in the oven actually mate. Oh gosh. I think maybe we'll do a little break for some turkey facts. Turkeys are intelligent and sensitive animals that are highly social. They are affectionate and create lasting social bonds with each other. A lot like dogs and cats. Turkeys can recognise each other by their voices and are known to exhibit over 20 distinct vocalisations. A male turkey's gobble can be heard a mile away. Female turkeys don't gobble but they do purr. Just like humans, turkeys have good and bad moods. If a male turkey's throat and head are blue, this means that they are happy or calm and red indicates that they are distressed or angry. Turkeys are protective mothers. When a turkey's eggs are getting close to hatching in the wild, the mother does not leave. Instead, she stays with the young at ground level to keep them safe and warm till they learn to fly and roost in the trees. Finally, because turkeys are sentient beings who deserve moral consideration, it is wrong to violate their rights for trivial human purposes. Let's respect their interests by leaving turkeys and other animals off of our plates this Christmas and beyond. Back to Cooking with Julie. Andy Faulkner, savepoppy.com, we're at your mum's house right now cooking muffins for Christmas, but who's muffin tall? Tell me more about muffin, what was muffin a? This is muffin. Hey muffin, muffin's vegan. Plant-based. Plant-based. Yeah. And muffin has been quite famous in Pitt Street isn't it muffin? I used to do a lot of activism muffin. He's been to university's many times, that was his main job, helping people. We'd talk to animal lovers who would just be patting muffin like crazy and then we'd ask them about pigs and cows and chickens and fish and ducks and turkeys and lambs. Wow. They would stab in the throat and you can't really be an animal lover if you're doing that to animals. True. And muffin would help them make the connection and realise that they would all suffer exactly the same. That's muffin. Yeah. So they had to be vegan. So muffin helped a lot of people go vegan. Wow, muffin, because of your sentient capacity showing that all animals deserve moral consideration with your cutie little face. Oh dear. This is muffin's Christmas dinner. Wow. Muffin will have this for dinner. And how old's muffin? Thirteen. Thirteen years old. So you're like, muffin, you're like a hundred and dog years. Been on the plane. You're 91. 91 in dog years. And you're still looking like, still looking strong. There you go. I would like to eat some of this too. Vegan. So. Fit for us. Fit for us. Fit for them. Instead of giving them the slaughterhouse scraps of the tumours and all the cancerous, you know, body parts and the entrails. Look how generous these servings are. I don't know. Is there going to be... There we go. Are we getting... That looks like a joey serving to me. I reckon maybe I'll... A joey serving. Yeah, so these are our lovely little round one there. There we are. There's that lovely one there. Look at that. That's a marinated one. Here we go. Oh, lovely. Here we go. Have a look at it. You've sliced the roll or two in your time. So you can have one piece to share between you. We have pumpkin. We have potatoes. We have... Carrots. We have sweet potatoes. And we have beans. Wow. There you go. Thank you. Beautiful. All right, let's go. The first one, here's the glaze. Oh, yes, I got that one too. Okay, let's go. That's very nice. This is very tasty. It's got good texture. It's very savoury. It tastes more meaty, doesn't it? It does. It does. And the sweetness of the cranberries. And the great... Yeah, they're nice. It works very well. Works well. Works well. All right, so what's this one? This is the... This is a little... It's like a wreath. It's got a wreath and it's got pastry and I'm going to fill it. And savoury and nuts, you know? Mm-hmm. I like this. That is it. That is it. I think that's nice. That's a real Christmas-y type of thumb. The pastry just makes it Christmas-y, don't you think? Yeah, it does. It does. It's special. That is delicious. It's special. And then we've got... Finally, we've got the roll that you're used to this roll, but I'm not. Yes, yes. Well, I am, but not like this with the glaze. Yes. With the relish. Yeah. We have to put some more relish on it too. That is a winner because it tastes like... Like a turkey roll. You're right. So this here is like a... You'd never know it was a veggie roll, would you? You'd never know. No, it's like a turkey roll. Instead of killing the turkeys, try this one. All right. Which one is your favourite? Same. I'll go the wreath. And these two are a close tie because... Very close. Yeah, yeah. Different taste, different texture a little bit. This one's good. If you gave me a choice, it would be this one. Yeah, but I think so too. But this one is good. That's good. I don't want to say that this one's bad. This one's next and this one's third. But they're all lovely. They're all winners. And there's no animals in there, so this is even better. No, so it's better still. And let's try your cauliflower here. My cauliflower. White sauce. That's my favourite. That is rich. My favourite veggie is cauliflower now. I love that. All right, I'm going to try the gravy. And the veggies, they really should be the star of the show. They've been themselves, but... Yeah. That gravy is so good. You know? All right. So after this, we'll taste test the Christmas dessert. Boom. Cream on the brownie. On the brownie. We're going to do a taste test. Which one do you want to go first? I'll go with my brownie first. You've got brownie first? All right. Brownie first. Sticky. Very, very nice. Chocolatey. Very good. I want to try something with custard. Custard and... Should I take this again? No, no, chocolate. So this is a plant-to-tude chocolate cake. Right. Hashtag not sponsored, actually. Just bought it because it's vegan. And we've got the creamy... Oatly oat cream. That's nice with the nuts, isn't it? Yes. And the cream on top. Very nice. Hazelnut. All right. What about the ice cream? Did you try it? Very nice. Well, all right, now we're going to go... What's your favourite? I think this one. I already like that one. It's hard because they're all good for different reasons. Like, I want vanilla ice cream for what I want it for. I like the custard for when I want it. And the cream is good for different things. But... They're good, too. No, go truffle. So if I was going to... About there, just like that melts in your mouth. I love it. But I could have a truffle and ice cream with my cake. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that would be a sublime. There we go. Beautiful. No dairy cows harmed? No. No egg laying hens harmed and killed either? No. That's all plants. See? Very good. The way it should be. We also got cherries, but everyone knows they're vegan already. Yep. Do you have any Christmas message you want to leave people with? Mm-hmm. Maybe this Christmas will be a great time to think about going vegan. I mean, can't hurt and you've only got heaps to gain and your health. And of course the animals will be the life. So it's all good. And Merry Christmas, everyone. Merry Christmas. Christmas is a time for love, compassion, sharing, peace and justice and equality and respect. And we should apply those principles out to non-human animals and stop causing the most suffering, violence and death you could imagine by killing innocent beings. It's not consistent with Christian values. It's not consistent with the values of any good-hearted human being. And we should all evolve past the mass murder of animals and the vegan.