Re:QOTW: Your Thanksgiving menu? ~ Jayelle

[Guest guest]

What fun plans and great traditions!

Enjoy your day!

 

Yes, I saw those cornucopia things on the cover of

Veg Times one year. They do look great. Thank you

for the recipe review.

 

Have a most Happy Thanksgiving!

 

~ PT ~

 

He that hath a good harvest may be content

with some thistles.

~ John Ray, English Proverb

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, Jayelle Wiggins-Lunacharsky

<jayelle3

wrote:

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> 1. What will be on your plate this Thanksgiving?

> List your menu plans or what you know of.

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> Hmm, all kinds of yummy things!  Dressing, homemade cranberry sauce, a rice

casserole (haven't decided which one I'll make yet), roasted green beans,

grilled sweet

potatoes with sea salt (the neighbors already think I'm insane--why not grill? 

Grilling

them while they're wrapped in tinfoil makes them not only yummy, but look

shockingly

black on the outside and shockingly orange on the inside).  I will make a

small Tofurky

because a few other veggies actually like it.  (I'm not fond of meat

substitutes.)  A friend

will make turkey at his place and bring it.  There will be pies and two kinds of

biscuits.

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> Oh, and these.  From Vegetarian Times.  Roasted Vegetable Cornucopias.  I

tested these

on my friends who were over to watch the last NASCAR race of the season a couple

weeks

ago, and they loved-loved it, all of them.  (Only I use Bakesheen egg wash

substitute,

'cause I'm allergic to eggs.  And I subbed broccoli for cauliflower because I

hate the stuff.)

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>  http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/9698?section=

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> 2. Do you cook all day? Or are you going to be a guest

> at some gathering? Are you going to be the only vegetarian?

> What is the weirdest thing an omnivore has said to you

> on Thanksgiving day?

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> I do as much as I can ahead, but I'll be in and out of the kitchen most of the

day.  About

a third of us are vegetarian; I also work around one friend's need for

gluten-free dishes

and another's lactose intolerance.  The weirdest thing I've heard is some of my

relatives

acting like I'm only saying I'm allergic to chicken, turkey, and eggs just to

upset them.  I

was diagnosed at age 30, so there has been a lot of, " You know, it didn't kill

you when you

were younger. "   No, but they do forget the times I've had hives or been sick and

listless at

Thanksgiving.  I never feel sick at Thanksgiving anymore.

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> 3. If you cook, what methods? [baking, roasting, pan frying,

> crockpot/slowcooker , stove top, campfire?]

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> Um, pretty much all of those except for campfire!  :-)

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> 4. What is your favorite activity for after the feast?

> [walking, watching TV, watching football?]

>

> Talking, taking a walk around the neighborhood, cleaning, and--my favorite of

all--

sleeping!

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> Oh, and I should mention a weird tradition that my brother and I started about

five years

ago.  I don't even know how we came up with this, but he'll be doing this with

the relatives

in Florida and I'll be doing this with friends in NYC and everyone would be

disappointed if

we didn't.  This is done between dinner and dessert.  We put together something

really vile

for people to drink.  (One year, for example, I blended Jones Christmas Ham and

Christmas Tree sodas; another was the liquid from my sauteed mushrooms mixed

with the

imitation vanilla my SIL bought because she didn't know any better.) 

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> I don't know what it will be this year, but I will be garnishing it with

Archie McPhee's far-

too-realistic (oh, and veggie-friendly!) gummy maggots candy.  We start a pool

with a $1

or $5 bill.  People keep putting money into the pool until someone thinks it

justifies

drinking the nasty drink.  They keep the money if they can keep the drink down

for a full

minute.  We time them.

>  

> Traditions are so important, aren't they?  ;-)

>  

> Blessed be,

> Jayelle

>  

> " If everybody minded their own business/they'd be too busy to worry 'bout

mine/If I live

life the way I wanna live it/it ain't no crime! " --Joe Nichols, " It Ain't No

Crime "

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> Go Pittsburgh Penguins!  Puck the Red Wings!

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