Food blogger for a meal (that’s all, I promise)
We celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday with my sister, Christina, and her friend, Will. What does a vegan Thanksgiving look like? Let me show you…
The Sous Chef and Chef
The main dish: Stuffed Acorn Squash
Your choices are lentils and rice or…
Dressing!
We also had lentils and rice
and dressing on the side!
A delicious new Green Bean Casserole recipe! We used the leftover sauce as gravy for…
… the potatoes! Nom nom nom.
Of course, we had to have Cranberries. We just bought the canned Ocean Spray kind, but I may make a fresh cranberry dish for Christmas.
And you can’t forget the rolls (from ALDI)!!!
The fully set Thanksgiving Day Table…
and the fully set table with peeps!
My plate (this is all I ate – I knew we would have LOTS of leftovers)
Christina makes the classic mashed potato sandwich!
There were just a FEW servings of leftover mashed potatoes
We waited a few hours (Christina and Will played Wii the whole time) until we got out the DELICIOUS vegan pumpkin pie (new recipe here)
My plate
Everyone else’s plates!
The only thing that wasn’t vegan at this meal was the butter for the rolls, the whipped cream, and ice cream.
We had a lot of fun yesterday. Steven and I did the food prep while Christina and Will chilled, then we just played Wii all day and hung out. Sometimes, it’s good to spend a day indoors!
I didn’t do a thankful post this year. After reading many of yours, I can say I am thankful for the same things. But one unique thing I have to mention is how thankful I am too have a supportive husband who loves to experiment with food. I became vegan on June 15, but Steven is still a vegetarian. However, he fully supports my decision to be vegan and is always “veganizing” dishes we used to make with animals products, and trying out new recipes that I can eat. What a sweetie! Being vegan is not impossible, but Steven makes it much easier.
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So glad Steven is so supportive! That is definitely something I am thankful for too – my husband isn’t even a vegetarian but he is happy eating vegan at home and then just ordering whatever he wants when we go out. We lucked out 🙂
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No Tofurkey? My good friend A. is a vegan and he gets one every year just so we can go around saying “how was the tofurkey.”
Sounds like a lovely meal.
I have a cranberry jam recipe… vegan too. You make it in the microwave, super easy.
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Happy Thanksgiving (weekend), Kim! Looks like a great meal, and as my Gran would say, even better fellowship. 🙂 Yay to supportive husbands (and family members)… none of mine pushed food on me this year, instead saying, “Oh, Rob won’t want that” and they were right – from the extra servings to ANY servings of meat. Yay!
Hope you guys are having a wonderful weekend! I didn’t do a ‘thankful’ post either and felt a little guilty, but gosh, I’m thankful for everything in my life right now and it would be ditto, ditto, I suppose. Glad I wasn’t the only one who didn’t…! 🙂
Happy Saturday,
robin
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How many innocent, defenseless vegetables died to make this meal?
😉
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your vegan thanksgiving spread looks so beautiful! especially the stuffed acorn squash. and im so flattered your tried my pie! i love that not only does no one suspect its vegan, but i can convert non-pumpkin pie eaters to love it 😉
happy (belated) thanksgiving! i hope you have a wonderful weekend, kim! xo
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Wow! What a great looking Thanksgiving! Everything looks delicious. That’s great how supportive your husband is. Mine teases me about being a vegan sometimes but I think he’s secretly proud of me. 😉
Everything looks so yummy!! Looks like you had a really nice time. 🙂
Such tasty looking food & presentation!
Cranberry sauce from scratch is awesome. My family was bummed when Ocean Spray stopped making their cranberry relish with orange last year– it was the next best thing to making it yourself minus the mess.
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Aww, I like your veg meal! I want to come eat all the leftover mashed potatoes. So delicious. 🙂
Steven sounds like a great husband, and he has a really badass last name. Harrison and I were just talking about it in the car.
And I was eating some of your tasty caramel corn! Thanks forever!
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Your pics make everything look so good … but I honestly hate most squash. Including acorn 😉 But that pic makes it ALMOST look good!
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I’m fanatically jealous of your Thanksgiving meal. Though I’m sure I’d find it delicious for ANY meal. 🙂
I would have sprung for that ice cream action though. 🙂
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Ha, I am LOVING those aprons! I need to get those for me and my husband. Your Thanksgiving feast looks amazing!!
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What a yummy looking spread!
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Looks fantastic! I know I should probably make my own cranberry sauce and all, but there is just something traditional for me about the canned jelly stuff. So good in all the wrong ways.
I may have to try the stuffed squash next year. I just ate a whole heap of sides for my dinner 🙂
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Thank you so much for posting this! I love seeing so many vegan/vegetarian options for holiday meals. It all looks AMAZING, too!
Steven sounds like a keeper. 🙂 I’m not vegan or veg, but my family does support that I eat veg a lot….I can’t imagine having a family that didn’t – ya know?
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Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!!! It sure does look like it was a fantastic one!!! I don’t blame you, being thankful for Steven! He is a sweetie!!
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everything looks AMAZING! I would love to be at a vegan thanksgiving!
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Wow, all that was vegan? I admire how much you are dedicated your eating/lifestyle, even making Thanksgiving something wonderful without a bird or dairy (that is vegan ice cream, right?) 😉
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