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A Very Vegan Thanksgiving

November 30, 2009 · 32 Comments

To get all of my loved ones together for the holidays, my friend Amy and I decided to throw a Vegan Thanksgiving!  It was quite the success!  Is there much better than hanging out and eating great food?  I think not!

Let’s see here..

So, I made cinnamon cupcakes with vegan buttercream frosting, put out some chips and hummus, baked sweet potato bread, cooked delicious punk rock chickpea gravy, homemade biscuits, roasted ginger brussel sprouts and carrots, double layer pumpkin cheesecake, baked a sweet potato casserole topped with pecan crumble and Dandie’s vegan marshmallows!  Oh, the sweet potato casserole.  I tried some before anyone got there and it was quite possibly the best thing I’ve put into my mouth.  I found the recipe on the Fat Free Vegan Blog.  Ahhhhmaazing, and topped with the whole bag of those cute, little expensive, hard-to-find Dandie’s marshmallows…

Incredibly intelligent me decided that I would brown the top and heat it up by placing it under the broiler…

Unfortunately for you, I was too much in a panic to snap a photo of the FLAMES but trust, it was scary.  While my friend Karli was smart enough to turn off the oven and both burners that were on, I scrambled around the house searching for a fire extinguisher.  I ran down three flights of stairs, grabbed it off the wall and finally made it back up stairs.  It took me a good minute to figure out how to use the thing, but I nearly cried when I sprayed this onto my beloved sweet potato casserole!  THE HORROR!  8 dollars worth of marshmallows… burnt to a crisp.. Anyway, I am just thankful that nothing else was hurt!  The guests starting arriving right after I pulled the trigger and were greeted to the delicious smell of whatever comes out of the fire extinguisher.  Beautiful.

After mourning the fact that no one would be able to try the most delicious dish ever, Amy showed up with the rest of the feast!  This girl went above and beyond!  We had three Celebration Roasts, two kinds of mashed potatoes, green beans, more gravy, and another sweet potato dish.  Amy’s friend Vanessa brought another delicious pumpkin pie!  We had so much delicious food.  I didn’t even think to snap a photo of the rest of the food, but I did manage to take one of my first plate.  This was so much more than enough for a little group of people over!

Everything was so amazing!  I really loved the celebration roast!  It was quite delicious.  Amy roasted it with applesauce, which was such a great idea.  I topped pretty much everything on my plate with the insanely good chickpea gravy.  Incredible!  The recipe is from Vegan with a Vengeance, I believe.  I’m serious, it’s GOOD!  I wish I had leftovers.

After dinner, we talked, laughed, tried to fix my xbox, and played games.  Yeah, we brought out the Twister mat!  It was quite hilarious.  There was a ton of Twister photos taken and I’ll surely show you when I get a look at them!  I brought out the pumpkin cheesecake and we ate it right their on the mat.  It was pretty good!

It was such a great day!  I am so thankful for my loved ones.  Everyone was gone by 9 and I was so happy to cuddle up in my bed.  I hope you all had a great weekend as well.

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