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Thanksgiving

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Helpful Sites

Turkeys

Stuffing Mixes

Side Dish Recipes

Gravy

Breakfast/Brunch Ideas

Pies

Cookies

Cakes



Helpful Sites:

vegetarian.about.com



Turkeys



 Stuffing Mixes

        Brownberry Traditional Stuffing (Herb Seasoned Shredded Stuffing)
           Pepperidge Farm Corn Bread Stuffing



Side Dishes

Sweet Potato And Apple Bake (note: this recipe calls for orange juice and apple juice)

3 medium-size cooking apples,peeled, cored, and sliced about 1/4 inch thick
 1/3 cup apple juice
 1 teaspoon cinnamon
 3 large sweet potatoes, cooked, slightly cooled
 1/2 teaspoon finely shredded orange peel
  3 tablespoons orange juice
  1 tablespoon dairy-free margarine, melted
 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
 

      Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place apple slices in covered 9-by-9-inch baking dish. Add apple juice and cinnamon to apples and mix. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until apples are tender. While apples are baking, peel orange peel, orange juice, margarine, and nutmeg. Whip with electric  beaters until creamy. Using a pastry tube or spoon, pipe sweet potatoes over cooked apples. Return to oven uncovered for 5 minutes.

Microwave Instructions:
       In covered microwave-proof dish, prepare apples as above, reducing apple juice to 2 tablespoons.
Microwave apples at High (100 percent) for 4 minutes. Stir and rotate dish 1/2 turn.  Microwave at High (100 percent) for 3 minutes. Continue recipe as above.  Return completed dish to microwave. Cook for 2 minutes at Medium (50  percent).

Makes six servings.

 

Sweet Potato and Apple Casserole Thank you, Marie Egan

3-4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled

2 cups apples, peeled and sliced

3 Cups miniature marshmallows

1 Cup sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

½ Cup chopped pecans, optional

2 Tbsp. cornstarch

½ Cup water

1 Tbsp dairy-free margarine

Slice sweet potaoes about ¼” thick. Grease a large baking dish and layer sweet potatoes, apples and marshmallows. Sprinkle with mixture of sugar, cinnamon, salt and pecans. Blend cornstarch and water in a small bowl and pour over layers I n in dish. Dot with margarine. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
 

Corn with Bacon and Carmamelized Onion Thank you,  Natalie Whittington
4 ears fresh corn
6 bacon slices, chopped
2 medium sweet onion, cut into thin strips
2 T. light molsses
1/4 t. salf
1/4 t. pepper

***cut corn from cob.  set aside.  cook bacon in a heavy skillet until crisp.  remove bacon, reserving 1 T. drippings in
skillet.  add onion to reserved drippings.  cook over medium high heat, stirring often, 15 minutes or until onion is caramel
colored.  add corn, and cook stirring often, 8 minutes,.  stir in molasses, salt, and pepper.  place in serving dish, and
sprinkle with bacon.
 

Sweet Potato Casserole Thank you,  Natalie Whittington
3 c. cooked, mashed sweet potato
1 c. sugar
1/4 c. dairy free margarine
1/4 c. rice dream
1/2 t. salt
1/2 t. vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
***combine and whip smooth.  pour in casserole dish.
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. chopped pecans
1/3 c. flour
1/3 stick dairy free margarine
***combine and sprinkle over potatoes.
***bake casserole at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.



Gravy

Franco American Turkey Gravy (with natural turkey stock)



Breakfast/Brunch
 

zucchini bread Thank you,  Natalie Whittington

3 eggs
1 c. vegetable oil
1 1/2 c. sugar
2 c. zucchini, shredded
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
1/4 t. baking powder
3 c. unsifed all purpose flour
1 c. pecans, chopped

beat eggs until foamy.  beat in oil and sugar with zucchini.  add cinnamon, salt, baking soda and baking powder mix. well.
blend in flour and nuts.  divide into 2 greased and floured bread pans.  bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.
 

Sweet Potato Waffles  Thank you,  Natalie Whittington

2 1/4 c. flour
1/4 c. firm packed brown sugar
4 t. baking powder
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. ginger
***combine in large bowl and make a well in the center

4 egg yolks (set whites aside for later)
2 whole large eggs
2 c. rice dream
***whisk together and add to dry mixture above
***beat 4 egg whites until soft peaks form and fold into batter.  bake on waffle iron and serve with the following:

1 10 oz. jar apricot spread (no sugar added)
1/2 c. maple syrup
1 t. ginger
***stir together and microwave for one minute.



Pies

The best Chocolate Pudding Pie ever! Thank you, Evelyn Rice

     3 1/2 Heaping Tablespoons of Cocoa
     3/4 Cups Sugar
     5 Tablespoons Cornstarch
     1/8 teaspoon salt
     2 1/2 Cups Non Dairy creamer
     4 Egg YOLKS
     2 Tablespoons Non-dairy margarine
     2 teaspoons vanilla
 

     Mix Cocoa, sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add creamer and yolks mix thoroughly! Cook in double boiler STIRRING CONSTANTLY!!!!!!
     till thick and creamy (takes awhile, but it's so worth it). Remove from heat add butter and vanilla. Cool and pour into graham cracker pie crust!! Refrigerate till ready to serve!


Nondairy Pumpkin Pie Recipe  (please note: this recipe contains Tofu)


Fluffy Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie – Thank You, Laura Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

12 ounces Tofutti Brand “Better Than Cream Cheese, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

1 cup 100% pure pumpkin

 

Directions

 

1. Mix cream cheese, sugar and pumpkin pie spice on medium speed. Stir in pumpkin

2. Add eggs and mix until blended. Pour into crust.

3. Bake at 350oF for 40 minutes. Cool. Refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight.

 


 

Cookies

 

Pumpkin Cookies - Thank you, Marie Egan

 

 

½ Cup oil

1 ½ Cups sugar

1 egg

1 Cup pumpkin

2 ½ Cup flour

1tsp. baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp. salt

1 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. cinnamon

½ tsp allspice (haven’t check this out – I would think it is Ok – check label)

1 pkg. dairy-free chocolate chips

 

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together the oil, sugar and eggs. Sift the flour and all other dry ingredients. Add flour mixture alternately with pumpkin to sugar/egg mixture. Add chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonful onto a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-15 minutes.

 

 

Cakes

 

Jewish Apple Cake

 

4-6 apples, peeled and sliced

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 ¼ Cups sugar (divided usage)

3 Cups flour

1 Tbsp baking powder

1 Cup oil

4 eggs

1/3 Cup orange juice

½ tsp. salt

2 ½ tsp. vanilla

 

In a medium bowl, combine apples with cinnamon and ¼ Cup of the sugar. Set aside.

In a large bowl, with mixer on medium, combine remaining sugar with flour, baking powder, oil, eggs, orange juice, salt and vanilla. Beat until batter is smooth.

 

Grease a 10 inch tube pan or bundt pan and pour a small amount of batter into the bottom. Place a layer of apple slices on top. Continue layering in this fashion, ending with a layer of batter. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 ½  hours or until cake tests done (check cake after 1 hour). Cool in pan on wire rack 30 minutes, then turn cake out onto rack to cool thoroughly. Serves 16-20.