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Some of you have been asking for me to round-up my favourite Thanksgiving/holiday recipes in one spot and I thought that was a great idea given that Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
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Hopefully this will be of help for you as you plan your holiday meals this season.
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I will also include a link to this page at the top of my recipes page so you can find it whenever you need it!
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1) Itty Bitty Pumpkin Garlic Knots
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These rock my world.
[I now have a huge, huge craving for these.]
2) The most delicious gravy I have ever tasted (and it’s veeeeeegan!)
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All of our guests enjoyed this gravy!
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3) This Ain’t Grandmas Sweet Potato Casserole
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Sorry grandma, but this was the crowd favourite at my Thanksgiving dinner party in October! Wholesome yet incredibly delicious.
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One of my all time favourite soup recipes. It is very filling too!
5) Maple Spiced Quinoa with Cranberries, Apricots, and Almonds
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Very festive, light, with a great crunch and array of flavours.
6) High Protein Garlic Mashed Potatoes
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Healthy, high in protein, yet delicious. No one will know what ingredient is hiding in there!
7) Cinnamon Sweet Potato Chickpea Salad
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Mmmmmm. That is all. Mmmmm.
8.) Easy Maple Cranberry Sauce
This was my first time making cranberry sauce and I was surprised at how easy it was! It took me about 15 minutes start to finish and just a few ingredients. Recipe found on PDF in Luxury Dinner Party post above.
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My favourite baked beans.
Appetizer
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Great with beer and the good ‘ol hockey game.
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Desserts!
10) Wedded Bliss Soft Ginger Cookies
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One of my favourite cookie recipes.
11) Pumpkin Pie Brownie Cupcakes
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and a variation in ‘pie’ shape…
12) Pumpkin Pecan Brownie Pie (PDF) from this post.
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This was the favourite dessert at my Thanksgiving party, adapted from the amazing Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
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Need I say more?
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13) Pumpkin Gingerbread with Spiced Buttercream
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This was also a crowd pleaser and it’s one of Eric’s all time fav desserts.
14) Pumpkin Butter Oat Squares with Candied Pecans
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15) Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
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Chocolate and peppermint is a dream wintery combo in my opinion!
Breakfast
It has been way too long since I made this breakfast pie.
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17) Buttery Apple Streusel Oat Squares
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18) Comforting Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
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19) Gingerbread Overnight Oats with Soft Ginger Cookie Crumbles
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20) Fruit and Nut Energy Bites
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21) Festive Red Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
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Gift Ideas
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23) Apple Streusel Butternut Blondies
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24) Energy Bites
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And there you have it!
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What are your favourite Thanksgiving or holiday recipes?
Also, does anyone have any holiday tea recommendations for me? I am looking to buy some holiday teas!
Ok, I have the hugest girl-crush on you right now! Your blog has totally inspired my holiday gift-giving this year (energy bars and brownie-mix-in-a-jar) and also what I will be making for my holiday dinner to take, while everyone else is gorging themselves on non-vegan food, I’ll be making them all jealous with some of your recipes. Seriously, thank you! You saved me from another holiday of veggie burgers and noodles. :)
And your photos are amazing! I love how you document the steps of the recipes (which is where I usually mess them up, so it’s great to have a guide!).
/embarrassing outburst.
haha u are cute! Glad you like them. I agree veggie burgers can get a bit dull
the gravy looks like butterscotch pudding!
OMG Ange! Your table scape is SO PRETTY! You’ve got some skillz lady :D Mind if I copy ? ;)
go for it!
Its not really a good idea to read your blog while hungry. hehe. I love your recipes and photos, can’t say it enough! beautiful!!
its like grocery shopping when hungry! haha
What an amazingly helpful post! Thank you so much! I definitely have my eye on the Holiday Soup (for dinner tonight) as well as the cranberry sauce and a dessert or two for Thanksgiving. I was also thinking about the sweet potato and greens dish you made…I forget what it’s called, but it’s stuck with me since I read about it!
WOW everything on this page looks incredible!
As for teas, I drink A LOT of tea & my favorite ones around the holidays are peppermint or vanilla chai (Bigelow). Vanilla chai soy lattes are the best.
Angela- I made your Pumpkin Gingerbread for a work Thanksgiving party and let me tell you–A-MAZ-ING. The only thing I did different was I made a spiced cream cheese frosting instead of the butter cream but it was awesome…moist, chewy, flavorful. Awesome. I love this post bc it highlights everything in one and I’m drooling over it all!!
As far as a holiday tea- if you don’t mind tea bags (I have a loose leaf fetish myself) Celestial Seasonings has a holiday tea selection and my favorite is the Nutcracker Sweet black tea. It has vanilla extract and cinnamon flavors in it. It’s really yummy all on it’s own. Hope you like it!
haha I could feed an army with all of those recipes! And I hope that army has a sweet tooth:)
I’m debating between your quinoa and your chickpea sweet potato recipes for my dish!
Love this list! You should really have a cookbook published. I would buy it in a heartbeat. As for tea, I really like Republic of Tea Comfort and Joy. It is very festive.
Oh my, I’m drooling!! I remember trying your vegan pumpkin pie at last year’s dinner and everyone loved it!
everything looks so awesome! your pictures came out great!
My printer is going crazy! I’ve wanted to make almost all of these and the holidays are a good excuse to put some into motion.
My favorite tea is rooibos chai. With extra spices and almond milk.
Your photos as always are stellar!!! And now that I’ve read this….I’m officially hungry!!!!
Oh. My. Goodness. I’m going to the store as soon as possible. Of course, I’ll naturally have to be the first to sample everything….it’s just what you do when you cook. You sample, and if something’s really good, you tell your family its not and eat all of it by youself. Or something like that.
Oh! and before I forget, I live in Brazil. Its summer now. 100 degree weather. You all could move here, I’d be your translator and your taste tester!
This is my first time reading your blog. Your photos are so pretty and all this food looks amazing!! I always thought vegan food was weird or gross…up until a couple of months ago. All of these things look like something I could make and have everyone just devour and not think of it as something “vegan.” I’m going to a family Thanksgiving this year but hopefully I will have an excuse to make a big, healthy meal one day :)
I used to think vegan was gross too believe it or not! haha
on holiday teas:
i love the Celestial Seasonings sugar plum fairy one (herbal) – it’s so good just as it is, it doesn’t need sweetener. i also like their nutcracker suite one (flavored black tea), it smells absolutely incredible, but i do sweeten this one. [the gingerbread one i thought was awful, but i am biased now, as i have found the world’s best ginger tea, and all other teas with ginger are just ruined now. the sugercookie one was kinda bland. the green candy cane one was in the middle, good, but not as outstanding as the other 2]
If you want that perfect ginger tea, go online and get ginger tea from herbal tea center.
Your recipes are SO impressive!
OMG the choices! It is going to be hard to pick which ones to make, but they all look amazing.
It is currently snowing and 30F here in Southern Oregon. :( I am just glad for wood heat, it warms me to the bone. :)
For tea I get mine from www.teaman.etsy.com He has the best tasting teas. Right now I am hooked on Vanilla Rooibos and the Peach Pom Green tea. He has lots of different flavors I am excited to try his new gingerbread tea. Yum!
I’m in Miami, come be my personal chef!!