I hope you’ve enjoyed the week of Thanksgiving posts that I put together with Rikki! I’ve gotten so used to working on my own as a blogger that it’s nice to collaborate with someone else once in a while and see my food through another photographer’s eyes (or camera lens). And Rikki isn’t just an amazing photographer, but she’s also a great friend and mentor who totally gets my food, so I can’t imagine working with anyone else. I’m totally thrilled with how all of her photos turned out!
Here’s our complete vegetarian Thanksgiving menu:
Quinoa-Stuffed Acorn Squash Rings // Roasted acorn squash rings stuffed with quinoa, apples, cranberries, sage, and cheddar. A main dish for vegetarians that also works as a side dish for everyone else!
Whipped Sweet Potatoes // Vanilla-scented sweet potatoes lightly sweetened with maple syrup and topped with candied pecans. The perfect alternative to the typical marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole.
Rosemary Roasted Carrots // Heirloom carrots make this simple Thanksgiving side dish a showstopper.
Green Beans & Caramelized Shallots // Tender roasted green beans are topped with caramelized shallots.
Wild Mushroom Gravy // Don’t forget the gravy! This Wild Mushroom Gravy is the perfect accompaniment to your favorite mashed potato recipe.
French Bread Stuffing with Swiss Chard & Caramelized Red Onions // This is my favorite recipe from our Thanksgiving line-up. I’m usually not a big stuffing fan, but adding veggies and cheese to it makes it so much more flavorful.
Ginger Orange Cranberry Sauce // The secret ingredient in this cranberry sauce is ginger ale! Don’t be too intimidated to make your own cranberry sauce–it couldn’t be easier.
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Creme Anglaise // Make the creme anglaise a day in advance and let the bread pudding cook while you eat dinner and this dessert is completely stress-free. And since it’s made in the slow cooker, it frees up space in the oven too!
I hope through my recipes and Rikki’s stunning photography, we’ve been able to show you that a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be about sacrifice or bland food or sad meat substitutes. As I like to say, when the food you’re eating is good, you focus on what’s on your plate, not what’s missing from it! Thanksgiving is about gratitude, family, and friends–not turkey.
I won’t be posting any new recipes next week, but I will be putting together a round-up of other vegetarian main dishes for Thanksgiving on Monday and I’ll be back with What I Ate This Week on Friday. I’m taking some time off next week, so if I’m a little slow with emails or comment replies, that’s why.
This looks absolutely amazing! So jealous!
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Thank you!
So what time is dinner?! I just realized I missed some of the ones that were on Rikki’s blog so I have to check them out – I’m on deck for the sweet potato casserole. I might get killed if it doesn’t have mini marshmallows so I might have to do 2 versions!
Ha! Chris loves the one with marshmallows too, but I don’t eat them.
I missed all your Thanksgiving posts while I was away last week, so it’s nice to catch up on them with this post – and to see them all together on one plate! Looks like an amazing and filling vegetarian meal that I would be very grateful to eat on Thanksgiving! Hope you have a nice holiday
Such an amazingly gorgeous plate – it makes me want Thanksgiving all over again but with that exact plate of food!
Gorgeous photos of mouthwatering dishes!
I seriously wish Canadian thanksgiving was behind your thanksgiving. It’s awesome that we have a huge family so we end up eating turkey dinner quite frequently. I gotta try out some of these dishes next time we do that
This looks amazing! We had two Friendsgiving parties in the last two weeks, and our resident vegetarian was so pleased that the only item on the menu she couldn’t eat was the turkey. I’ll have to try some of these next year, especially the gravy!
Yeah, so often people forget that meatless does not necessarily mean vegetarian! It’s always nice to go to a dinner party and realize your options go beyond rolls and salad.
Especially with gravy and soup stock. Or, in Japan, surprise bacon in everything!
I love this! Everything looks so beautiful and fresh!
Your recipes made the most brilliant additions to our Thanksgiving Dinner! Thank you so much for working so hard to put all of these recipes together. I can only imagine how much time you spent on all of this.
I’m so glad they turned out well! I kind of worried that people would make things and they wouldn’t turn out and I’d wake up to angry emails on Friday morning.
Which is why I obsessively tested these recipes multiple times before posting them!
I just recently stumbled across your blog & your recipes are amazing! I made your baby roasted carrots & the acorn squash with quinoa for our family Thanksgiving dinner and they were a hit! Even among the carnivorous men!
Thank you! I’m so glad to hear the Thanksgiving recipes worked out well. If the meat eaters will eat them without complaint, that’s definitely a good thing!
Wow! That looks sensational! I’ve just decided to go back to being vegetarian after a few years off, this time I have to feed two tofu hating children, too Your recipes look like just what I need, can’t wait to try that mushroom gravy.
Ha! Well, there are definitely a lot of options out there besides tofu, which is a good thing because I’m a little bit picky about it myself–I’m sure they will do just fine!