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being veggie during the holidays???

topic posted Tue, November 22, 2005 - 10:45 AM by  christina
what's everyone doing for the big turkey day? it always feels so lonely being a veggie during this time as you are looked at so weirdly.

anybody got any good recipies they want to share for a turkey substitute?
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  • Re: being veggie during the holidays???

    Tue, November 22, 2005 - 11:28 AM
    Hey Christina,
    If you read back in the threads, you'll find all sorts of holiday/thanksgiving recipes. one that got posted 2 years ago was this recipe to make your own "tofurkey"

    www.geocities.com/soho/work...ecipe.html

    This year I'm making roasted root vegetables (but i lost the recipe... someone help!) with rutabaga, parsnips, sweet potatoes, beets and rosemary. I'm also baking some bread. My partner-in-crime is doing Momma Milo's cranberry relish, and we'll also be bringing a fruit+nut plate (my parents obviously think we're neither nuts enough or fruity enough... it's oh-so-tempting to do in drag ;) )

    I've been veg for 14 years, so my family is pretty used to my eating habits... but it's always good to offer to bring stuff that you'll eat if you think it's going to be a lot of dead animals

    xoM
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  • Ann
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    Re: being veggie during the holidays???

    Tue, November 22, 2005 - 4:24 PM
    I think it's great to be veg over the holidays! Vegan can be rough 'cause so many traditional deserts are off limits unless you make them yourself, but as a veg you've got an excuse to load up on yummy side dishes and desert, skip the turkey, and not get so stuffed that you're sick.
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    • Spark
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      Re: being veggie during the holidays???

      Tue, November 22, 2005 - 5:27 PM
      i just use it as an excuse to insert myself into the kitchen and unleash some havoc of my own...but my family isn't that invested in the meat aspect of things. shit, when my mom makes stuffing, she puts half the kitchen in it. and its still somehow vegan. nuts, fruits, spices, bread, any cats that hold still too long, they all go in the stuffing. They are way more into sharing food and good times, regardless. if we have vegetarians at the table, then there are vegetarian dishes. end of story. its always been about the sharing of harvest plenty in my house. (now if someone told them that they couldn't drink the homebrew at holiday gatherings...that would be a bad scene).

      i remember one year we had a passel of vegetarian exchange students from india (for thanksgiving dinner). they were really impressed/mystified by cranberry sauce, but then again, i was really mystified by cranberry sauce the first time we had some out of a can.
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      • Mrs....
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        Re: being veggie during the holidays???

        Thu, November 24, 2005 - 6:58 PM
        I help my mom cook thanksgiving dinner every year. The only change we made when I turned veg was to substitute vegetable stock for chicken stock and buy some tofurkey gravy. There are so many veggies, stuffing sides and taters that my pate gets so full, no one even notices there's no turkey on it.
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        • Boots
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          Re: being veggie during the holidays???

          Tue, December 6, 2005 - 12:21 AM
          I wish my fam was like that! It would be so easy to make all the side dishes veg by leaving a few things on the side (ahem....why does everything have bacon in it, even salad?).

          This T-day they made me two of my own "special" dishes that everyone sniffed with their noses up....but then proceeded to eat so much of that I hardly got any! Meanwhile, the veggies weren't even veggie....weirdness! Wish I could get there early enough to cook stuff with them- I'd love to stealthily insinuate my vegan desires into into the side-dish prep :)
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  • Axo
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    Re: being veggie during the holidays???

    Sat, August 4, 2007 - 1:32 PM
    Well, since I'm half Mexican, sometimes I'll make some yummy veggie tamales (or just buy them at Leonor's, which sells, amazingly, vegan tamales, right here in North Hollywood).

    I have found that you can make home-make pizza dough, make yourself a nice big turkey sized mound of, oh, stuffing, seitan, and rice, and cover it with the dough and kinda shape it like a turkey. With drumsticks and everything. This turned out eerily well one year.

    I have also made a huge yummy cheesy lasagne (not vegan), and the turkey-eaters were mighty jealous. Who says you have to eat that damn Pilgrim meal anyhow? (made up by a magazine in the 1800's anyhow).
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