Happy Thanksgiving

Creole Thanksgiving Roast
excerpt from: A Vegetarian Cooks' Book, The Green Cutting Board Press, 2004
Ingredients

1 large sweet potato
1 6 oz pkg soy turkey slices
4 cups seasoned bread stuffing
1 small onion
1 12 ounce bag fresh cranberries
1/2 cup orange juice
6 Tbsp vegan spread
1/2 cup raw sugar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
Creole seasoning
sage
salt
pepper

Preparation

Prepare the stuffing

An egg is an egg, or is it?

It may seem nonsensical to substitute tofu for the whole egg in this sandwich since there is some egg white in the soy strip but that simple switch reduces the cholesterol from 213 milligrams to 0 and increases the protein by 28% according to figures provided by the Egg Nutrition Center.



Breakfast sandwich
Appearance is everything, when it looks this good - you can be sure it will satisfy

Thanksgiving 2004, stuffed, baked acorn squash

Before dessert, before the main course and prior to the side dishes what a true Thanksgiving meal needs is a traditional American gourd cooked up sweet and savory.



Baked Stuffed Acorn Squash
excerpt from: A Vegetarian Cooks' Book, The Green Cutting Board Press, 2004

Ingredients

2 whole acorn squash
1 tsp. soy spread
1/2 C. wild or long-grain rice
1 Tbsp. finely minced onion
1-1/4 C.

Wedding Soup

excerpt from: A Vegetarian Cooks' Book, The Green Cutting Board Press, 2004



Italian wedding soup known as Minestra Maritata has little to do with weddings. Maritata is the Italian word for marriage - a marriage in this case between different vegetables. Culinary history confirms that recipes for soups of this type were called simply, minestrone.

Ancient Roman culinary traditions have that,

Cool blue green Thanksgiv...eeng

November, a cold snap in Fla.(60s) and the advent of our annual Vegetarian Thanksgiving reminds us that this year we're settin' out a cool blue Cajun feast for the first holiday meal of the season. To kick off the festivities and in honor of those intrepid cyclers who finished the first end-to-end run; Maine to Key West along the East Coast Greenway, and because we always start with dessert we

Inaugural "East Coast Greenway" bicycle tour finishes in Key West

Key West, Florida - Nov. 3, 2004 - On Sept. 12 a group of cyclists departed
Calais, Maine aiming to be the first people ever to traverse the full
length of the East Coast Greenway, the nation's first long-distance urban,
shared-use trail for non-motorized users. Some 2,800 miles and 53 days
later they have finally achieved their common goal, concluding the historic
ride in Key West, Fla.