My So Called Vegan Life

The LONG overdue Thankgiving Day Post!!!

December 7, 2008 at 4:12 pm (Uncategorized) (casserole, celebration roast, cranberry, gravy, potatoes, pumpkin pie, sweet potato cake, thanksgiving)

Thanks for being so patient.  Eric and I have been very busy spending time with family and enjoying all the wonderful things about the holidays.  We’ve also been busy with this new little girl….Mia….our new black kitten!!  We adopted her from the SPCA at our local mall the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  She is just adorable, and we are loving every minute with her.  Scotch, our white female cat, is growing to love her too!

Now on to Thanksgiving Day memories.  This Thanksgiving was especially unique for us because it was the first time we had Thanksgiving dinner at our house for both sides of our family.  We ended up having 11 people total.  Here’s the lovely tablescape my mother-in-law and I came up with.  I had the placemats especially made for this dinner by an artist on Etsy.

We started with champagne and appetizers, of which I was in charge of neither.  Ashleigh, my awesome sister-in-law, brought over toasted bread slices with fresh guacamole on top and hummus stuffed grape tomatoes.  My mother-in-law also put out some great cheese (for the nonvegans) and these cool mustards.  Also, there was habenjero cranberry jelly and wheat thin crackers.  Both vegan!

Now for the feast… I made Spiral Diner mashes potatoes and VwaV Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy, just like I did for the vegan meet-up Thanksgiving.

This is a recipe I found last year online, and I cannot find it anymore to link you.  It’s called Acorn Squash and Wild Rice Casserole.  I found it on a Canadian’s blog.  There are very similar recipes all over the web though for squash and rice casseroles.

The Best Vegan Green Bean Casserole from the Fatfree Vegan Kitchen blog.  This is the second year I’ve made this too!  I LOVE it!  I love all the fresh mushrooms that go in to it.  I doubled the recipe this year to get the amount you see in the dish.  We had 11 people, so I wanted to be sure and have enough.

This is our Celebration Roast sliced up from Whole Foods.  Yum!  We are BIG fans of this f aux meat.

Eric’s mom makes the BEST cranberry sauce.  We served it in cute little vases on the table.

This is my plate all loaded up and ready to be eaten.  You can bet I ate every little bit!!

A few hours later (well maybe only 2), after our food had settled and somewhat digested, we were ready to partake in dessert.  This is the cake I made.  The recipe came from the October issue of VegNews.  It’s called Heavenly Sweet Potato Cake.

Vegan Pumpkin Pie from Whole Foods.

And here’s a look at my dessert plate…we had Soyatoo whipped soy topping to put on top of the pie.