Thanksgiving for veg*ns!

I know it's over a month away but I'm getting totally jazzed thinking about Thanksgiving already!! What are some of your favorite veg*n holiday dishes?  Could be an appetizer, main dish, side, dessert, breakfast, whatever! 

My friend and I are having a pot luck dinner party on Saturday, the 22nd, complete with a sleepover, so we also need some easy breakfast/brunch ideas that will serve a lot of people. 

This is my first turkey-free Thanksgiving and I'm kind of excited.  The sides and desserts are always the best part of the meal anyway! :)

Last year I made Bryanna's seitan turkey.  It was delicious but takes a long time and it's very involved.  This year we are going to the in-laws so I won't be cooking.   However, they are carnivores, and I am worried they won't have anything we can eat.  So, we decided that the Sunday before Thanksgiving we are going to have a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at our house, and we will freeze and bring leftovers with us so we are sure there will be something we can eat.  This year I will use a Quorn roast (we are not vegan).  I tried one a few months ago and really liked it, especially the easy/time factor vs. seitan.  However if I was having it at my house on Thanksgiving, I would do the seitan turkey again.  It makes a lot, but it freezes well, or I'm sure you could halve the recipe.  We had 5 non-vegetarians over last year and they all enjoyed it.  They were even sneaking pieces out of the fridge later, and making seitan turkey sandwiches that evening, so I know they weren't just being polite.  :)

I also always make stuffing using vegetable broth, mashed potatoes and vegan gravy (vegetable broth thickened with corn starch), succotash (corn and lima beans), sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.

God Bless You! As a fellow vegan, I applaud & support your compassion. The main dish of our Thanksgiving, besides tufurky, has been a stuffing casserole made from a combination of Pepperidge Farm cornbread & herb stuffings (both vegan when made w. vegetable broth & margarine instead of butter). To the bread stuffing, I add all sorts of sauteed veggies (I use onion, garlic, zucchini, yellow squash, lots of mushrooms-wild & regular, spinach, carrots, parsley), vegan sausage & chopped black olives. Season to taste. Put in a casserole dish & moisten w. vegetable broth. Bake till heated through. It's delicious when served w. gravy made from veggie broth!

Thanks again for planning a holiday meal free of torture, suffering & death of innocents. My son, 29, also a vegan, fasts on Thanksgiving in memory & mourning for all the slaughtered turkeys. I am thankful that each year there are more and more people who refuse to poison their bodies while murdering others.

Happy Thanksgiving! 

I am addicted to cornbread stuffing; last year I bought a Quorn mock turkey roast (fabulous, by the way) and fixed it backwards-I put the cornbread mixture made with vegatarian broth and dried cranberries in a loaf pan then made a ditch in it and put the roast in the center and covered it with more stuffing.  After baking it I sliced it into six servings and froze some and enjoyed the rest over the weekend.  One of my better efforts.

I posted to this thread last year, but it's eternally interesting to figure out what to do for Thanksgiving.  I always offer to have it at our house, but no one else in my family of omnivores is ever interested, boo.

Anyway, we are going to my husband's cousin's house this year, where our only menu option for eating appeared to be mashed potatoes, judging by the conversation I had with my sister-in-law, who is doing the cooking.  Sigh.  I have agreed to bring something, but since the oven will be busy, it will have to be something easily stuck in the microwave for a quick reheat.  I think I'll make one of my old reliable lentil recipes just because its no fuss.  And I'll also bring a golden beet salad with pomegranate seeds that's extremely tasty.

Tofurky roasts are super yummy in my opinion, you have to make a vegan gravy for it though, I like the kind that uses vegamite, it doesn't taste like vegamite but it somehow makes the gravy perfectly delicious.  The Tofurky roast does come with stuffing, but its not that good I prefer homemade stuffing

@ meredithw:  Pepperidge farm is not vegan.  At least the last time I checked, it contains chicken broth.  So I choose to make my own dressing at home.  It's super easy.

ETA: I looked it up and actually it is the herb dressing that has chicken broth, and the cornbread stuffing has milk, so neither are vegan.  Also they both have things like HFCS and hydrogenated oils....

hello!

I am neither veggie nor vegan, and im canadian so thanksgiving is past, BUT i have some enquireries that make perfect sense in this thread!

My mother has been a vegetarian for 15 yrs now, and has passed on SOME of her habits onto all of us. My hubby and I rarely have red meat and we have every other type of meat only a few times a week - the rest as well as all my lunches are veggie. We have all respected my mother for XMas every year, so we make all stuff of yummy potluck style veggie stuff and no turkey. I have not eaten slaughtered turkey for xmas in over 6 years :)

so 1 - i need ideas for xmas this year. We will probably make creamy mushroom croutons and sweet potato/mushroom/arugula chedar cheese strudel (SO GOOD) again, but i wanted something with more substance too... anyone has a recipe for millet pie? what do all of you eat at xmas?

second enquiry - Haggis...yes, it must send shivers through your spines, but when i went to scotland i sat down in a pub and had a - hold your breath - vegan version (it MAY have been veggie only, but i doubt). Ive been dying to have it again because it was fabulous, but have NO idea what could have made the combination so delightful. Obviously same spices and whisky marinated as the traditional, but the *ground meat* part? Im sure i tasted nutty, and probably beany too.. but what? anybody scottish?

thanks guys!

well you could try cheesecake made with tofutti cream cheese (tons of recipes if you google), mashed potatoes made with unsweetened soymilk and earth balance, and of course all of the lovely veggies. :) sorry, I'm not much of a help.

Behold the answer to your vegan protein-based centerpiece needs:

http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_studio.html

Every single combination I've used has been off the charts fantastic. Please try it out, it's soooo good. And AMAZING for you.

Yay vegan holidays!

second enquiry - Haggis...yes, it must send shivers through your spines, but when i went to scotland i sat down in a pub and had a - hold your breath - vegan version (it MAY have been veggie only, but i doubt). Ive been dying to have it again because it was fabulous, but have NO idea what could have made the combination so delightful. Obviously same spices and whisky marinated as the traditional, but the *ground meat* part? Im sure i tasted nutty, and probably beany too.. but what? anybody scottish?

thanks guys!

The ingredients in the canned vegan haggis I've seen include veggies, kidney beans, lentils, mixed nuts, oats, and spices. All combined to make a hearty and delightful experience. I haven't tried it, though it does seem popular enough.