Vegan Lamb for Spring Equinox!

Ostara (the Spring Equinox) was Sunday, and it's one of my favorite pagan Sabbat holidays! Nothing makes me happier than warm weather, sunshine, and blooming flowers. I love this time of year! Eggs are a traditional Ostara food, and most years, I make some eggy vegan dish, like a tofu scramble or vegan deviled tofu eggs. But this year, I went a different route — I made vegan lamb.

I got the idea from the 2022 Sabbats Almanac, which has non-vegan recipes for all the Sabbats. For Ostara, they included a Greek lamb recipe, and I wanted to veganize it. So I googled "vegan lamb recipes" and found this one from Mouthwatering Vegan. I didn't follow it precisely, but I stuck pretty closely to the recipe. 

The lamb was basically a seitan roast, and I have no idea how authentic it tasted because I've never eaten lamb. Why would anyone even eat such an adorable creature? Speaking of, I actually have a tote bag that says "What kind of asshole eats a lamb?" And here's a similar shirt on Amazon. But I digress. The seitan lamb was delicious — very herby with lots of rosemary and lemon. 

I served it with two other veganized recipes from the Sabbats Almanac — Herbed Mushrooms (with vegan provolone) and Roasted Asparagus (with herbs and lemon).

Happy Spring!