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Pumpkin-Chestnut Soup Recipe. Butternut Squash Soup II Recipe. Cauliflower, Red Onion, and Chestnut Tart Recipe. Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes That'll Steal The Turkey's Spotlight. If a Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have a bird, is it still a Thanksgiving dinner?

Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes That'll Steal The Turkey's Spotlight

The answer is a hard yes. For many diners, all the turkey talk is moot. Think about it: The classic Thanksgiving spread is largely vegetarian as it is. On the table goes the best of fall’s harvest — roasted winter squash, sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce to boot. Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes: 33 Meals Made With Real Food (Not Tofurkey) Winter Recipe: Classic Vegetarian Nut Loaf Recipes from The Kitchn. Ah, nut loaf.

Winter Recipe: Classic Vegetarian Nut Loaf Recipes from The Kitchn

Not the sexiest-sounding main dish, but that hardly matters once you've taken a bite. Rich, chewy, umami-loaded and very satisfying, nut loaf has won the hearts and palates of many people — even non-vegetarians. Here is my favorite recipe for this classic dish, along with alternative serving suggestions and, of course, ideas for leftovers. I first encountered nut loaf when I had Thanksgiving with a community of Buddhist vegetarians, where it is a special occasion treat. It works very well as a "turkey alternative," served up with the usual sides: mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cranberries sauce, and so on.

Many of the steps can be prepared in advance. Tester's Notes I really loved revisiting this tried-and-true favorite recipe! • If you have a food processor, you can make your life much easier by using it to chop the mushrooms (just pulse until they are roughly the size of peas), the nuts (ditto), and the cheese. The Ultimate Vegan Thanksgiving Guide. According to the U.S.

The Ultimate Vegan Thanksgiving Guide

Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving – that’s one sixth of all turkeys sold in the U.S. each year. I’m out to change that. This Vegan Thanksgiving Guide is everything you need to plan, create, and enjoy a festive vegan holiday. Vegan Egg Nog Going vegan doesn’t mean you have to give up the flavor of traditional egg nog!

Here are just a few vegan holiday nog varieties out there. Vegan Whipped Cream If you are anything like my family, pumpkin pie always made an appearance on the Thanksgiving table. I never cared for the whipped cream in a can, it wasn’t thick enough. I stopped eating dairy whipped cream when I went vegan, and there wasn’t a vegan version that was similar to my much loved Cool Whip.

So Delicious Dairy Free CocoWhip is everything that is right and good about whipped cream. Virtual Vegan Holiday Dinner: Carrot Pate (Appetizer Course) - Ricki Heller. No, you’re not imagining: here I am again, a mere day after my previous post–and proffering yet another holiday-themed recipe!

Virtual Vegan Holiday Dinner: Carrot Pate (Appetizer Course) - Ricki Heller

I know: totally out of character. But it’s the holidays! I mean, doesn’t this happen to you, too? The Magical Loaf Studio: Create Your Own Adventist-Style Vegan Dinner Loaf! Seitan Roast Stuffed With Shiitakes And Leeks. Serves 6 to 8 Active time: 1 hour || Total time: 2 hours I know.

Seitan Roast Stuffed With Shiitakes And Leeks

I’m posting a roast recipe on the Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving. I’m sure everyone already has their menus planned and I’m late to the party. But this roast almost drove me to the brink of madness Call of Cthulu style, so I had to defeat it! A Recipe for Vegetarian Nut Loaf for The Recipe Redux Challenge. Did you know that National Nut Day is October 22nd?

A Recipe for Vegetarian Nut Loaf for The Recipe Redux Challenge

To celebrate, The Recipe Redux asked their food blogger community to share a healthy nut-filled recipe. It took me all of one minute to decide what to make. When I was a dietetic intern in Boston I lived with my grandmother in West Roxbury. She was a great cook, and I have fond memories of a nut loaf she occasionally made for dinner. Of course I was not smart enough at the time (in the 1980s) to learn how to make the nut loaf or even to get the recipe from my amazing Nana, who by the way, also inspired my Steamed Plum Pudding recipe.

After Nana died at the age 96, I asked my Aunt Betty if she had the nut loaf recipe, and she offered to write it down for me. Pumpkin Soup. New feature alert: Please note the new Print button at the top of each cooking post!

Pumpkin Soup

Yippee. It’s the little things in life, I tell ya. I realize I just posted a bright orange (carrot) pureed soup a couple of weeks ago, but you know what? I don’t sit down and plan my food cravings. I am who I am and that’s all that I am. This pumpkin soup is yummy, creamy, and so velvety-smooth (not to play favorites, but much smoother than the carrot soup) you won’t believe it. Serve the soup in bowls like normal people…or get fancy-schmancy and serve it in hollowed-out pumpkins of whatever size you’d like. First: the pumpkin. Poor pumpkins! So here’s what you need for the soup: pumpkins (pumpkin puree), stock (vegetable or chicken), heavy cream, nutmeg, maple syrup, salt, and pumpkin seeds. Smashing Pumpkin Soup Recipe. Golden Buttermilk Cornbread. An extremely moist, subtly sweet, and miraculously low fat cornbread with loads of flavor and a tender crumb.

Golden Buttermilk Cornbread

The secret is stone-ground cornmeal soaked overnight in buttermilk. Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes: 33 Meals Made With Real Food (Not Tofurkey)