QOTW: Your Thanksgiving menu?

November 23, 2008

Time for some fun questions of the week.

Please juump in with your answers to our weekly

questions when you have time.

1. What will be on your plate this Thanksgiving?

List your menu plans or what you know of.

Salad (separate plate)

Celebration Field Roast

Stuffing

Mashed Potatoes & Gravy

Yams

Cranberries

Biscuits

Beans

Pumpkin Pie

(obviously too much)

My wife, an omnivore, is having some chicken

instead of Celebration Field Roast. She also will have

her own gravy made with chicken stock and probably

some dressing with chicken stock.

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?

Nope, don't cook all day.

Nope, won't be a guest.

Yep, I'm the only vegetarian in our two person household.

The weirdest thing said to me by a non-vegetarian - hm, can't

think of anything at the moment.

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

crockpot/slowcooker, stove top, campfire?]

Some baking and stove top involved.

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

[walking, watching TV, watching football?]

Gee, what about before -> the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Afterwards, I'll probably take Buku the dog for a walk which I will

also probably need. Maybe I'll watch a movie on DVD. Might

work in the yard a little.

Gary

November 23, 2008

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menu?

Time for some fun questions of the week.

Please jump in with your answers to our weekly

questions when you have time.

1. What will be on your plate this Thanksgiving?

List your menu plans or what you know of.

Dressing, cran sauce, celery, sweet potatos, mashed potatos, green beans,

apple/nut salad, pound cake, pumpkin pie.

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?

Will be guest. Only vegetarian. Isn't that a beautiful turkey?.

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

crockpot/slowcooker , stove top, campfire?]

Some baking and stove top involved.

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

[walking, watching TV, watching football?]

board games, napping

November 24, 2008

1. What will be on your plate this Thanksgiving?

List your menu plans or what you know of.

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.

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.)

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

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?

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.

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

crockpot/slowcooker , stove top, campfire?]

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

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!

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.)

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 "

Go Pittsburgh Penguins! Puck the Red Wings!

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November 26, 2008

1. What will be on your plate this Thanksgiving?

Celibration Field Roast, Tofurky Roast, Sweet Potatoe Fries,

Cranberry Sauce, Pumpkin Pie (made w/ silken tofu)

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?

No. It is just going to be me and my girlfriend (as it has been for

the past 6 years) and we're both vegans. I've managed to avoid

omnivores on Thanksgiving day since becoming vegetarian... but I'd say

the weirdest comment in general: " Wow, you don't look sickly like all

the other vegans I've met " .

3. If you cook, what methods?

We're making the pie filling from scratch, but other than that just

standard baking.

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

Watching movies.

November 27, 2008

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

> List your menu plans or what you know of.

My plate will have:

quorn roast slices

tofurky giblet gravy

mashed potatoes

vegetarian stuffing

dinner rolls

salad

corn casserole

green bean casserole

sparkling cider

> 2. Do you cook all day?

I just have to fix my own veg plate of food.

We are going to friend's, so I need to make

my veg stuffing, gravy and quorn roast to take

with me.

>are you going to be a guest

> at some gathering?

Yes.

> Are you going to be the only vegetarian?

Yes indeed.

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

> on Thanksgiving day?

" Don't you wish you weren't a vegetarian so you could

eat some of this turkey? "

AND

" Why don't you just give up that vegetarian-thing for today. "

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

> crockpot/slowcooker, stove top, campfire?]

The stovetop and oven.

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

> [walking, watching TV, watching football?]

A walk, and then watching movies at home while I do

needlework.

Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 2008

after 6 years she is still " girlfriend " ? Sounds like you are compatible. ? ? ?