This last week has been filled with recipes for lovely food that would be great for Thanksgiving. I’ve been cooking a lot to experiment with creating vegan versions of some of the Thanksgiving favorites. In particular because I’d been cooking so much myself, it was a real treat to go over to my mother-in-law’s house for dinner last Sunday for a meal that she cooked! She and her husband have been trying to incorporate more plant-based meals into their eating routine and she’s been trying out lots of new recipes in order to discover new, plant-based favorites. She made so much good food for dinner–a pureed tomato and green chili soup, roasted brussel sprouts, kale salad, and a wonderful Indonesian dish with peanut sauce as the main dish. The main dish was red quinoa on on the bottom, then raw spinach on top, followed by roasted cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and red bell peppers. This was all topped with a delicious peanut sauce she made from scratch according to the Moosewood cookbook. On the table were toppings for the dish–raw purple cabbage, raisins, coconut flakes, carrots, and diced orange. Here it is, in all its glory–so delicious and satisfying and overall, a real treat:
The Week in Recipes:
Monday November 14, 2011: Garlic mashed potatoes–full of flavor and creamy as can be.
Tuesday November 15, 2011: Basic pie crust recipe and a recipe for a vegan, but not-made-of-tofu pumpkin pie.
Wednesday November 16, 2011: My favorite part of Thanksgiving–the stuffing.
Thursday November 17, 2011: Roasted brussel sprouts, plus instructions for how to clean them.
Friday November 18, 2011: A sweet and tangy Cranberry Orange Bread. The perfect thing to do with the leftover cranberries after you’ve made the Cranberry Orange Relish.
I hope some of these recipes might be useful in making a delicious plant-based Thanksgiving this year. Don’t forget to check out the new recipe page. You can search by occasion and enter “Thanksgiving” for more ideas. I’m still in the process of adding recipes from older posts, but there are at least some on the page.
I’m away at a workshop this weekend, which I will tell you about later. I hope you all are having a lovely weekend!
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