Click picture to enlarge enough to read the funky handwriting! On the right, garden plat. On the left, mostly freezer records. This is supposed to be the cold room, but it was seventy today and they expect similar weather all week..
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Since you're so "squared away", I'm stopping by to beg for help.
ReplyDeleteYoungSon is bringing his girlfriend home for Thanksgiving. Um, she's vegetarian. So I'm posting today a desperate plea for ideas for a half-vegetarian thanksgiving. Please send any ideas my way.
Peace out!
Acchh, like i know much? I can feed myself and anyone else tolerant of the basics, but feasting is something I ken little of from a cook's perspective.
ReplyDeleteBeloved uses Moosewood. I use Joy. We're not veg by any conviction but people think we are because meat is so seldom on the menu.
A Broccoli Forest is easy and entertaining. Ummm, steam or bake a couple of sweet potaties and top with shelled pecans or walnute and some honey. I use butter in the sweet potato filling, but for her, maybe margarine or just a little olive oil and brown sugar? Apple or Rhubard Crip with lots of oatmeal in the crust?
For some reason I'm good at bread and a big round loaf makes the table look really inviting. And I think your biscuits look GREAT.
Mostly I stir fry vegs (adding each according to its density, greens and tomatoes LAST, even after cutting off the heat, sometimes. And I set that out along with a bowl of rice and a bowl of sphaggheti and some tomatoe sauce (if i using canned or Ragu, I decorate it with basil flakes and that looks more sophisticated (and I like it) and so folks can build their own veggie plate.
Olives, gherkins, and some sunflower seeds seasoned and roasted, in little bowls with little utensils?
Salad, tossed, with cherry tomatoes. With homemade vinaigrette: take a tiny little glass bottle, fill it about half with water, add dried basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, in proportion to your taste, add 1/4 bottle apple cider vinegar (or less) and top off with virgin olive oil to taste. Shake. Put by the salad.
Cider, homemade if ya got it, otherwise from the store (without any corn fructose in the ingredients).
It's ok to just do soup, too, and say "this thanksgiving we are REMEMBERING THE POOR..."
For "crip" read "crisp." Did I mention my fingers are in rebellion?
ReplyDeleteA good site with Broccoli Forest among other things:
Every Recipe
Thanks. I hadn't thought about butter. I just called YoungSon and he asked: she does eat dairy and eggs. So that includes butter, whew!!! I am horrified by margarine, so that was a close one.
ReplyDeleteYou've got some good ideas there, I appreciate it.
That question was well thought of; vegans are even more work than vegs, as they can't, some of them, eat even honey, let alone dairy. So, if eggs are ok, maybe a quiche main dish?
ReplyDeleteIf you Google "Vegetarian Thanksgiving," you will get around 300,000 links. They have some very tasty recipes and ideas for the menu - even have some sites that have 12 and 1/2 for just the situation you are in.
ReplyDeleteWe are vegans for religious reasons on certain days and seasons of the year. One season sometimes overlaps Thanksgiving, so I go to my trusty Google to find the dishes that will "make it" for the feast. By the way, in my opinion, forget Tofurky! A great disappointment.
Go for a meal with a good mix of grains and legumes as well as traditional veggies. For vegans, I suggest something like Smart Balance instead of butter. For lacto-ovo vegetarians, that isn't a problem. Does she eat seafood? Some vegetarians do. If so, a nice large, salmon, whole, is a good choice. Great recipes are at http://www.salmonrecipes.net/
Have fun with this - don't look at it as a trial and tribulation! Most of your veggie recipes should "do" just fine.
Cheerio!
Turtlemom
Wow, turtlemom, as usual you are a day-saver! What a link!
ReplyDeleteThanks Elizabeth. I got a little overwhelmed with all the choices on google...good heavens! And I actually don't think it's a chore... I dearly love to plan and fret and re-plan and worry and make a backup plan and... well, you get the picture. :)
ReplyDeleteI have a call in to find out about Salmon. When someone suggested fish the other day I thought "No way", but SALMON... yummmm, now that's a whole 'nother idea! Thanks.
I recently started reading your blog, and have read back through many. Seeing this last post, I am curious to know what a typical 'Stony Run Farm' grocery store list has on it. What do you find are the essentials (for you) that you simply cannot procure on your acerage?
ReplyDeleteWelcome, Anon-e-mouse! :-)
ReplyDeleteUmm, as certain things tend to be on hand and always appreciated, such as eggs, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, trout, kale, beets, rhubarb, and apples, in various stages of preservation, we mostly go to our food co-op for wheat flour, spelt, oats, molasses, bulk pasta, and the like ---
--- but, talk about not being purists! We had some people over the other night, and while most of the dinner ingredients were from our place, the half-gallon of premium-grade ice cream was NOT. Nor the take-and-bake pizzas that Last Son likes to have when he is here. And we have it with him, and feel wicked and joyous accordingly.
At the Winco (local employee-owned discount grocery superstore) we regularly pick up tofu, and Beloved has a weakness for grapefruit that she cannot overcome. My own secret sin is Ragu, which helps me get through quite a lot of vegs on top of the pasta. They just make the stuff better than we do, plus as we both work full time there are only so many do-it-y'self projects our kitchen can support for now. Sigh
... the feeling is, no, we're under no illusions that we are self supporting, and, no, we're not going to starve ourselves for principle, but, yes, we like to see what we can do -- a better hobby than, say, watching NASCAR (at least from our point of view. And we feel we could do more if we HAD to. Which could happen. Yes?
So, there you pretty much have it. And how are things with you?
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