Thursday, November 30, 2006

A Very (almost) Vegan Thanksgiving

I have been taking a break from Vegan Ventures for a long long time and I am sorry but I needed to neglect my food blog because I just had too much work. I am all caught up for now (as best as I can be at least) so I can finally add my pictures. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, whether you had tofurky, Chinese food, or PB&J for your feast. My grandma brought the turkey (no comment) and I was in charge of making all the sides. I made pumpkin crusted tofu from VWaV for my main food, mashed sweet potatoes, corn bread, sugar snap peas, creamed spinach, and a pumpkin pie. No one in my family knew the sides were vegan and my grandparents even ate the tofu, and liked it. All in all it was a very successful first vegan Thanksgiving.

Yesterday was my birthday and I was going to make brownies but, again, I was too busy writing a huge paper for bio. My mom made vegan chocolate chip cookies from this allergen free mix (ie. no wheat, eggs, dairy, soy, peanuts...). I am not allergic to anything but at least they were vegan and very tasty. I am going to try to do some baking over Christmas break.


Corn Bread
Recipe


Pumpkin Crusted Tofu
from Vegan With a Vengence
Previous post

Sugar Snap Peas

Pumpkin Pie

Crust recipe Pumpkin pie recipe I used firm silken tofu and I put the tofu in the blender until uit was smooth

7 comments:

laura k said...

Kate, that all looks and sounds delicious! I am interested in the pumpkin seed-crusted tofu--it looks amazing. I have never tried it, but I guess I need to now!

Happy birthday! That's so funny that your mom used an allergen-free mix to make your cookies! It was definitely thoughtful though.

I know what you mean about school. The semester is nearly over though, right? At least mine is! I can't wait! Hang in there...

funwithyourfood said...

I want to make another pie already!

Anonymous said...

Happy belated Birthday! I hope it was a happy day.

Your sides look great - it's it funny that as long as people don't know the food is vegan, they eat it and enjoy it?

Anonymous said...

so yummy!

aTxVegn said...

Welcome back! And happy birthday! Your dishes all look wonderful.

I really did have pb sandwiches on Thanksgiving!

Kelsey said...

Hey! i commented you yesterday but for some reason it didn't show up...hmm..! well anywhoo...im also very glad to find someone else whom is christian/vegan/teen! your food all looks very delicious! are you the only vegan in your family? so to answer your question the falafel was cooked in the oven at 400 degrees F. I coooked it for about 25 minutes flipping them half way through. well good luck with your finals!

Anonymous said...

wonderful! i had the same sort of holiday: all vegan except a pature-raised turkey. They all loved it!