...we had a wonderful Thanksgiving visiting family...
...this is going to be one of my rather long and rambling posts...
...it started a few days ago with some prep work...
...not sure why these bars have a cow on them...I was tickled to find them as they are vegan...they're in the kosher section of my regular grocery store...
...just four simple ingredients make the most delicious chocolate pie...
...I had to weigh my tofu...because the recipe is for a 12 oz. box...
...then blend up the tofu, sweetener (I used agave...but the recipe calls for maple syrup), and vanilla...
...melt your chocolate in a double boiler...
...this takes longer than anything else in the recipe...
...but just keep stirring...
...then add it to your blended tofu mixture...
...and blend again...
...until velvety smooth...
...then pour it into your crust...I used a graham cracker one this time...but I've used a regular crust and it's good that way too...
...make a pretty swirl...jk...it's just as good without...
...then I made the cheeseball from
My Vegan Cookbook...
...with a couple of substitutions...
...I used walnuts for the pine nuts...and I used my almond paste leftover from making almond milk instead of just blending up almonds...
...did a quick taste test...yummy...
...put it into a bowl lined with plastic wrap...
...for a few hours to set up a bit...
...then I chopped some walnuts...
...and rolled the cheeseball around in them...
...pretty isn't it?...
...I baked some
vegan two ingredient biscuits to take...
...and I baked them in a muffin pan...so I'd have nice crispy crusts...I love that...
...then because I needed some more crackers for the cheese ball...I mixed up a batch of Vegan Wheat Thins...
...I have the recipe in my binder...
...and I've made them before
here...
...they turned out perfectly...
...and y'all have already seen the
Vegan Goldfish-shaped Cheese Crackers...
...so that was the prep work...
...now on to what I actually ate yesterday...
...we started preparing our Thanksgiving Brunch by cooking some Smart Bacon...
...and then making some vegan gravy...
...Mom putting everything on the table...
...my vegan plate...you'll see the cute little vegan quiches on Tuesday with Julia...
...after Brunch we visited Grandma...
...then we came back to Mom's and starting snacking before dinner...or linner (lunch + dinner)...because we didn't have lunch...
...so we had the cheese ball and crackers...and it was really good...
...then it was time to start preparing 'linner'...steaming some broccoli and cauliflower...
...and boiling some potatoes for some
Grandma's Mashed...
...then I had seen a recipe on facebook for sweet potato bites...
...so we sliced and roasted some sweet potatoes in Earth Balance and maple syrup...
...then opened a new bag of Dandies vegan marshmallows...
...and put one on each slice of sweet potato...
...and lightly toasted a few pecan halves...
...broiled the marshmallow tops...
...and then smashed a pecan half into each one...
...et voilà...sweet potato bites...these were addictive...so...so good...
...I brought some seitan...nothing you've not seen before...
...my two ingredient biscuit...
...a close-up of the sweet potato bites...really...these are so simple and good you've got to try them...
...and my whole overstuffed plate...that produced an overstuffed me...
...so...then...we retired to the living room to watch the fiftieth anniversary edition of How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
...I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families too!
So pleased that you had a lovely Thanksgiving. We had a documentary about how Thanksgiving came about, very interesting. I come from a few miles from Scrooby where William Brewster came from.
ReplyDeleteI have discovered a delicious new thing to eat with what we Brits love, a 'roast dinner'. It is a vegan haggis! A friend told me about it, they are vegetarians but she checked the ingredients and okay, it's vegan. It does say so on the wrapper as well! It was delicious and will be a regular feature chez moi.
looks like a fabulous visit!!! the wheat thins look amazing and that simple way to make sweet potatoes looks like a keeper! i'll try to remember that for my christmas dinner - i'll have to find some vegan marshmallows for miranda! (i kept her a small bowl separate made with only sugar and earth balance for our thanksgiving meal, of course!)
ReplyDeletelove, k