Thanksgiving's coming, and we have family visiting, much to my delight. I'd like to plan Thanksgiving dinner (which's actually lunch) and get ready for it soon. The goals:
-Use the traditional ingredients, only the vegetarian ones ofcourse. This means, corn, green beans, cranberries, pumpkin, mashed potatoes, yams, etc.
-Make traditional American things but with a desi twist.
-Everything has to be healthy.
My friend Denise sent me this:
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http://www.avalonwine.com/East-Indian-Thanksgiving-Recipes.php
>well, they make a vegetarian turkey. i think it's called "tofurkey". they sell it >at whole foods. you have to have mashed potatoes. also cornbread, stuffing, and >candied yams.those are the main things. then people typically add their own ethnic >foods. in flo's family they did all the traditional dishes plus a bunch of >filipino dishes. i've had mexican friends that add refried beans to their meal. >in my family we'd always have lefse (norwegian potato tortilla thing), knackebrod
>(graham flour flatbread), and a wild rice casserole.this has some tasty recipes. http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=386628b7fa06cbb98358c7f693fd65ee
>what do your indian friends typically make? the challenge with a vegetarian >thanksgiving is the turkey and gravy. but indians seem to have an ability to make >anything vegetarian delicious.i can't wait to find out what you come up with! i >was just thinking about what we did last year. we did the turkey (typical) with >stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans or some other veggie (can't >remember), corn bread, candied yams, and pumpkin pie. it was delicious!
>--Denise
My friend Keith sent me this:
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http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/vegetarian-gumbo-recipe.html
>> we never have green beans or corn. we usually have gumbo,
>> turkey, potato
>> salad, stuffing, and sweet potato pie. i guess it would be
>> possible to
>> make a vegetarian gumbo, but i'm not sure how good it
>> would be.
Some raw data there to sift through.
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Hi Deepa, how have you been? The past couple of days has been really busy, so couldn't get back to you immediately.
Mansi is holding a "Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes" event. So you should be flooded with ideas and recipes. Check it out here.
http://www.funandfoodcafe.com/2008/11/vegetarian-thanksgiving-recipes.html
Hope you are also checking http://connect.sailusfood.com
She will also be doing the round up before Thanksgiving, so you should be fine. Happy Thanksgiving and entertaining!
I have a recipe for vegetarian gumbo somewhere... if I find it soon enough I'll mail it to you
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