Vegan Recipes?

[everylastbreath]

My DIL is Vegan, usually we just pick up some already made foods from a local Wholefoods, but this year my daughter is cooking for Christmas and would like to actually make her some "Real" food - The Vegtables are easy, but would like to make her a main course too, anyone have any relatively easy Vegan recipes that would be nice to make for her? My Daughter plans on making some eggplant rolotini for everyone, but is not sure how to get breadcrumbs to stick to eggplant w/out eggs, Help! Any Vegans out there??

 

[budbeerlady]

Check out Moosewood: http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/recipes.html

They have wonderful cookbooks and I think recipes online.

 

[toledo13]

Resident veggie here! Check out my blog in my siggie. Most of the pictures are vegetarian, not vegan, but could be adapted to vegan-ness. I'll be doing a blog very soon about our thanksgiving and what I made with pictures and everything, so check back in the next couple of days (I'll try to get some stuff up tonight if I can).

A simple thing you could make is a Lentil Loaf. That's what I made for Thanksigiving. The recipe is on the blog, either the most recent blog post or one back. If I remember right... it's vegan.

Hope this gives you ideas!?

 

[akcire]

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2005/12/es-kid-friendly-recipes.html

This is an awesome, vegan website. My husband the ultimate carnivore will eat most of the recipes on this site (trying to get his cholesterol below one billion).

I have had good luck with all her stuff, also lots of Thai is vegan. So if you want you can have a Thai-inspired Christmas (as long as no one is allergic to peanuts).

 

[everylastbreath]

Thanks my Veggie/vegan friends! Wonderful website!! I intend on passing them along to my DIL too!!

 

[dreamer423]

One of my favorite veggie fall recipes:

Roast veggies -I like combo of carrot, parsnip, squash, -sweet potato=really any combo you like

drizzle olive oil and agave nectar (honey if not vegan) a little salt, a little cinnamon.

When soft, serve over hot steaming couscous. Sometimes i ad raisins to the couscous. Can also use quinoa. Great filling grains.

 

[hipchickie]

I dip eggplant in water and the breadcrumbs still stick pretty good.

A few years ago we hosted christmas dinner and I made Portobello Mushroom Wellingtons - they looked very "fancy" but were insanely easy.
Some store bought puff pastry is Vegan, just check the ingredients. Then I just threw together a filling with portobellos, Seitan (yummy but not necessary) and a vegetable stock gravy. Make pockets out of the puff pastry and bake.

I have a couple friends with a fun blogs with some recipes to check out too
http://disposableaardvarksinc.blogspot.com/
http://veganyumyum.com/

 

[perriwinkleblue]

Vegetarian Times magazine has a website with a recipe area. http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/

 

[HeatherC]

I'm not vegan, but I LOVE roasted vegetable soup. It is so easy!!!

Just cut up a bunch of veggies. I use butternut squash, asparagus, onions, carrots, etc. Put on cookie sheet with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Bake at 400 for about an hour till they start to char.

Let them cool and then just pop them into a food processer or blender with some chicken stock. If you like it thick, use a little stock. If you like a thinner soup, just add more stock. It is so good and healthy. Plus the house smells awesome when they are roasting.

 

[QueenGoblin]

The vegetable soup recipe sounds great, just keep in mind most vegetarians and especially vegans do not eat food prepared with chicken stock There are lots of commercially available vegetable stocks, and if you search around in whole foods stores you can even find "faux" chicken stock that approximates the taste without any animal ingredients.

 

[HeatherC]

QueenGoblin: You are so right! Didn't think about the chicken stock. Like I mentioned...I'm not vegan, but love that soup. I have also used veggie stock which works just as well. I just happen to always have the chicken stock on hand.

 

[QueenGoblin]

DH is vegan and my DDs and I are vegetarian and there is a lot of confusion out there as to what veggies do and don't eat (largely because people who call themselves vegetarians have such widely varying restrictions, some eat fish, some eat gelatin, some won't eat white sugar, etc.) And while every once in a while you run into a really militant vegetarian, most of us just appreciate that the carnivores of the world try to welcome us to their tables even if chicken stock inadvertently makes its way into a recipe