official 'how did your thanksgiving go?' thread
Posted by hiimkelsi on Nov 28, 2008 · Member since Sep 2004 · 2297 posts
how did they go?? we had another successful vegan thanksgiving. but this year my mil and sil made some ammaaazing dishes. YUM!
so how did your thanksgiving go???
We had our second vegan thanksgiving....meaning no omni food anywhere. It was great! We didn't have room on our plates for everything we made. I will post my plate photo later. Both dh and my favorite dish was the steamed kale I made smothered in "hippie sauce".
It was just dh, me and our 2 sons. I am perfectly fine with that, but dh, on the otherhand is really a family guy and I think he was feeling badly that no one invited us or wanted to come to our house. We don't have family nearby anyway. Personally, I don't think I can ever sit in a house on thanksgiving with turkey wafting through the air all day ever again.
One weird thing happened. I was in the middle of chewing (a few foods together) and all of the sudden my gag reflex kicked in. Something about the combination in my mouth reminded me of my omni Thanksgiving days...almost like there was turkey bits in my mouth. It was really gross! I don't know why this happened, since I haven't had a turkey bit in over 10 years. ???
Other than that, we enjoyed the day!
Mine was okay. I spent it with my mom and dad. I had been sick to my stomach the day before, but I thought that I was better yesterday. So, my mom and I cooked all morning and I was so excited to eat. Everything looked fantastic, but then I realized I was still completely nauseous! I had a couple of bites and that was it. However, I was able to enjoy a wonderful meal of mashed potatoes, butternut squash, corn, stuffing, green bean casserole, tofurky, and stuffing by myself at 7:30 this morning! And there is still a bunch left. I might go make another plate shortly...
Oh, that Sketchy!
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Mine was... not great. I mean, the food was good and my Three Sisters Casserole turned out well... and I ate lots of good food because nearly all the side dishes at my boyfriend's mom's house were vegetarian... but omg, the vibe I got all day from her and his sister was just downright unpleasant.
Like, no one would mind if I just dropped dead.
His whole family would only speak to each other, not to me. If I spoke, they'd look at me like they were obligated to be polite, then they'd change the subject or talk to someone else almost as quickly as possible. I don't understand how they can hate me if they won't even talk to me.
I felt so out of place the entire time. I'm not really sure if I'll go with him on Christmas, I may just send my gifts for them along with him because I just would be happier at home with my cat watching holiday movies. He doesn't make me feel judged and unwelcome.
I cried on the way home. J feels horrible, but it's not his fault. They're just not very welcoming to "outsiders," and while to J I'm family, to them I'm a total stranger and strangers are bad.
I also think his sister is jealous and thinks I'm keeping her brother from her and trying to take her place with her mom also... and apparently she's been stirring the pot so to speak, bringing up the fact that he and I are living together to make his mom think about the more uncomfortable things. I don't know, I just want to be friends with these people and they hate me.
I just want to hide under a blanket and cry. I don't know how anyone does this for years and years with their in-laws.
:-[
mine was ok. it's nice to be home, but there's stuff that's going on with friends here and my older brother is still an a**hole, and that kinda brought me down and made the day less nice.
i made vegan green bean casserole from here, but it turned out a little soupy. my mom made the stuffing with veggie broth so i could eat it and said she read the box of the stuffing mix and that it was veg..i checked the box and it had chicken fat in it :( dont care for stuffing anyway. the mashed potato stuff my mom used had a milk ingredient, but she made them with soymilk and earth balance so i had a little anyway because i felt bad. i wanted to make the double layer pumpkin cheesecake, but i was feeling too down. my stomach felt horrible after eating and i got sick. then i went in my room and cried. on the plus side, i found the snickerdoodle ice cream at whole foods, and i ate some of that and it was tasty.
i shouldn't be all complainy. i had food. i have family and a house. things are not so bad.
where are hespedal and base??? i want to hear about the vegan thanksgiving extravaganza!!!
Mine went well, the only complaint I have is going to two different places. It gets a little tedious, but whatever.
I also made the green bean casserole, but it had too little green beans and too many mushrooms, which was entirely my fault. ::) It was still good though. Katie made the maple syrup and pumpkin casserole from this site. Other than foodz, we watched Iron Man, Fred Claus, and hung out. I bought a Wii for my sister because she wouldn't be able to find one and I gave it to her yesterday. She gave me an awesome hug for it and not harassing her to pay me for it (she's had a rough year).
Today, I am sitting here at work, and I am alone at the moment. The only people working with me today are the delivery drivers and they are on the road delivering. I'm so lonely and hungry, but I can't go to lunch. :'(
mine went really well, although my mom has a tendency to pretend she doesnt know what a vegan is when other people are around... it's weird. haha, anyway, my tofurky came out awesome! but the dumplings kinda tasted like soap... and my grandma made congris.. AWESOME! and i made vegan nanner bread, everyone loved it. bam bitches! haha.
OH! me and my cousins are crazy when we get together. we got the idea of nose piercings in our heads so when everyone was outside, my cousin, my sister, and i went into the bathroom and pierced my cousin's nose!! it was craziness. i wanted to pierce my ear, but i knew i'd be disowned (and somehow my veganism would've been blamed for it)
then my sister learned how to bartend from my drunk aunts. the cubans and the hicks were all co-mingling and it was a very thanksgivingy sight full of drunkenness and love. this might have been the best thanksgiving so far. yay! 8) :)>>>
Mine was entirely mediocre. I had some steamed veggies, tasteless gravy, lumpy undercooked mashed potatoes, and some sweet potatoes... which weren't all that badly burned. No pumpkin pie - I got an okay-ish chocolate cupcake. And some frozen yogurt - they took pots of soy yogurt and stuck 'em in the freezer, pretty much. It was kind of tasty, actually. And there was cranberry sauce.
Um. The high point was the amused disgust at the omni food - they'd draped bacon over the turkey to cook it, and it looked like the strips of skin on roadkill in a hot climate... and the stuffing was 60% pork, at a minimum.
Scottish schools do Thanksgiving = lulz all 'round!
Mine was pretty good.
Mine went well, the only complaint I have is going to two different places.
We had lunch with my dad's side of the family. I didn't take food there b/c I'd rather eat the bulk of my t-giving at dinner. Anyway, I ate corn, turnip greens, and english peas. My grandmother did ask me if I couldn't just "break the diet for this one day?" I told her it wasn't that simple and left it at that. She's cool though, but she's old and grew up on a farm and just doesn't understand.
For dinner we were with my mom's three sisters and their families. I made lentil loaf with gravy, green bean casserole, cranberry and orange sauce, cornbread dressing (my g'mas recipe made vegan) and pecan pumpkin pie. Many of these family members have experimented with varying degrees of vegetarianism over the years, so it's not a huge deal. One of my aunts is "kind of vegan." Anyway, everyone seemed to enjoy my food. Eventhough there was a turkey and other non-vegan things, I have way fewer leftovers than I expected!
Ours was very nice. I actually made all of my food Wednesday afternoon/evening because I had time, and I didn't want to be working all day Thursday on my day off. So, on Thanksgiving we just relaxed, had breakfast, then I reheated/prepared our feast..and it was wonderful..then we played some games (MarioKart on Wii, Monopoly), then watched The Incredibles. It was our first Thanksgiving alone, and we really enjoyed it. :)>>>
I gave up on holidays with family.
Last year I made a vegetarian meal for my family and only my father was appreciative of my effort.
At this point in my life I do not want to even smell a dead animal cooking. It is a really sickening smell to me.
So basically my family thinks I am depressed and anti social on holidays.
My sister did call me yesterday to see how I was doing so at least one family member was thoughtful.
Anyway it just Zippy and I hear yesterday.
My holiday was filled with raw food.
Zippy I made him veggie loaf, mashed potato's , peas and corn also made some mushroom gravy for the loaf and potato's.
ah, this was my first T-day outside of Iowa. I almost wasn't planning on making anything at first, but Shane and I sort of put together this impromptu dinner thing which turned out to be very nice.
This was also my first all-vegan, all-from-scratch T-day dinner!
We made a tofu turkey based mostly on the "traditional tasting tofurkey" recipe, a batch of "creamy" herbed mashed potatoes (with tofutti cream cheese and sour cream), sourdough and veggie stuffing, RAW cranberry sauce, and a RAW sweet potato pie with an almond-date crust!
It was nice to not have any big family-oriented, stressful event to worry about. Shane and I had our share of fighting during the meal preparation, but I chalk that up mostly to the fact that our kitchen is too small and I get very irritable when my cooking space is not running exactly how I want it. ::)
I'm still trying to eat over 50% raw at the moment, so I ate just little bits of the non-raw stuff...I made a nice kale salad with the stuffing as an accent, sampled the tofurkey and the taters, and had a huge helping of cranberry sauce. :) We ate dinner while watching an old Simpsons Thanksgiving episode (from 1990) and it was pretty nice.
Glad to hear mostly everyone's thanksgiving went well! Mine was just great. I cooked a lentil/quinoa dish, my sister made a vegan chocolate peanut butter pie and my cousin (whose house it was at) made sure there was an abundant amount of vegetables and left some of the food on the side she made without the nonvegan ingredients so we could finish preparing it how we wanted.
It could have been a disaster. I have three older female cousins who were there and all of their husbands are involved in farming and/or hunting. But we're all pretty close and have a mutual respect for each other and I know they would never force me or my sister to eat something that's not vegan and I know there's nothing I could tell them to change their lifestyles. So no one really makes a big deal out of it. My cousin actually gave me a ton of recipes that she has come across that were vegan and I'm really excited to make them!
I made everything vegan, except for the turkey breast my mom bought. I am the one and only cook in the family, so I would have made non-vegan, but didn't have to. Because it was with my parents we had traditional - mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (I made these with maple syrup, OJ, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger), stuffing and green bean casserole. I made regular cranberries for them, and a cranberry-tangerine-crystallized ginger relish for myself and my partner. That I found online. It was awesome. We had tofurkey last year, but decided to just eat all of the sides. I am a carbohydrate whore, so I did not mind.
And I made the tofu pumpkin pie from this site, as well as a triple berry one.
Yesterday was actually my one year anniversary of being vegan. And it was awesome that all of the omnivores (4 of them) loved all of the food and could not tell the difference between the vegan sides and the ones I used to make.
Other than foodz, we watched Iron Man, Fred Claus, and hung out.
Whoa, we watched the same exact movies as you did yesterday! What are the odds? :D
My thanksgiving was so awesome! Hespedal came through, along with about 20 of my other friends and we ate, drank a lot, danced and got completely ridiculous.
mine was fun- at my younger sisters house- which makes me feel like a fuck up that she's like way younger than i and owns a house... she got drunk and bummed cigarettes from me. i was the only veg. there, but there, but since they all know- they made lots of stuff.. i made vegan pumpkin/carrot/jalapeno soup and butternut squash/leek risotto- they made me pumpkin gnocchi and vegan dressing, and gravy, and roasted beets and turnips... it was kind of rad.
My twin flew down from Michigan to be with me so I wouldn't be alone since I had no vacation days that would've allowed me to go home. We made boiled red skin potatoes, green beans, stuffing, squash and apples, gravy, a gardenburger riblet for me and a small roast for her. We bought wheat rolls and a vegan pumpkin pie from Whole Foods. Everything tasted great and we had a great time. There's tons of leftovers so I've got good eats for days!
My twin flew down from Michigan to be with me so I wouldn't be alone since I had no vacation days that would've allowed me to go home. We made boiled red skin potatoes, green beans, stuffing, squash and apples, gravy, a gardenburger riblet for me and a small roast for her. We bought wheat rolls and a vegan pumpkin pie from Whole Foods. Everything tasted great and we had a great time. There's tons of leftovers so I've got good eats for days!
aaww! thats so cute! im glad you enjoyed it! :)>>>
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v953/33/39/1520958947/n1520958947_86157_8014.jpg
This is me, drunk as fuck, with hespedal in the chair.
I am still cleaning red wine off of every surface in my house. Somehow there is red wine stains in my shower, bathroom ceiling, mirror and toilet. Pretty spectacular if you ask me.
Another good thanksgiving here.
sb, how do you clean red wine? The stain on the bathroom ceiling I think I would leave and see if anyone asks you about it.
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