I don’t remember it being particularly salty, but it probably was reasonably so from the feta. There was a lot of spinach as well, so it wasn’t as salty as some Greek-style cheese pies can be. I do remember that we ate it hot from the oven.
My wife is veggie and, for her, Christmas dinner is everything except the turkey and pigs in blankets. Given that there are about 18 different things on the plate already, a lack of turkey really isn’t a big deal.
I don’t have the parsnips but I don’t expect an entirely different dish or alternative to parsnips to be prepared. Not sure why we treat the meat part so different.
I have nothing extra to add… Mushroom Wellington (Greens in Didsbury turned me on to this) or Veggie Haggis. When done with all the trimmings of a roast, I never feel like something is missing if one of those is in the mix (never tried having both together, but now I’ve thought about it, I will this year)… and I’m definitely not veggie.