What to serve with ham for a crowd?

[drcmk]

For dessert you can do a baked fruit crumble if you didn't do grilled, or a chocolate cake or whatever.

I'm having a tres leche cake for dessert, but I wanted to have a vegan dessert, too. Can I make a fruit crumble and just substitute margarine for butter? Is there a better way?

 

[pixiewings71]

For my BFF who is dairy free (she has an allergy) I make a crisp and use margarine instead of butter. Works fine.

 

[shortbun]

Lots of fresh veggies, some raw-some cooked. No casseroles because they always have soup, cheese, butter-not vegan and not healthy. Peas, corn, carrots steamed in a home made succotash. I LOVE the squash stuffed with sweetpotatoes idea!!! Yum! Green onions, green beans steamed with sliced almonds and pearl onions. Applesauce is a great idea but I'd make a fruit salad with several things-apples, grapes, cherries, blueberries, pineapple, mango, bananas. Chopped cauliflower, broccoli, onion with some vegan pasta and a lite italian dressing. Wheat berry salad with vegan italian, raisins and apples, onions cut up in it. Mixed beans(black, kidney, navy, lima, white, wax) roasted with herbs, salt and pepper, oil and vineagar in the oven.

 

[CaFeeney]

Up here in New England you got to have baked beans with ham! You can always doctor up some canned baked beans with onions, bacon, mustard, ketchup, etc and put it in a crock pot for a few hours.

Ham, beans and brown bread..typical New England Saturday night dinner!

 

[Kathi OD]

PINEAPPLE SOUFFLE
1 stick butter
1 c. sugar
4 eggs
5 slices of bread, crumbled
1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, 1 at a time. Mix well. Stir in bread cubes. Add pineapple. Pour into souffle dish and garnish with brown sugar and (or) pineapple slices and maraschino cherries. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

You could bake this the day before and then just warm it back up in the oven before serving.

We call this pineapple stuffing, instead of souffle.

You can take this to the next level by using chiabatta bread instead of regular bread, don't drain the pineapple too much, and stir in some cinnamon. Absolutely to die for!

And I agree, totally not heavy!

 

[cornflake]

The bread absorbes the fluid and it is lighter than it sounds after it's baked. There are many recipes online for pineapple soufflé. Some sounded even heavier and more sugary.

I get rave reviews and always come home with an empty dish when I take this to potlucks. I also cut up some extra bread cubes and sauté them in butter to sprinkle over the top before baking.

So it's ...not a souffle. Okie, thought I was missing something or the recipe was missing steps.

 

[cornflake]

I'm having a tres leche cake for dessert, but I wanted to have a vegan dessert, too. Can I make a fruit crumble and just substitute margarine for butter? Is there a better way?

You need vegan margarine if you're going to do that. Regular margarines are, in general, NOT vegan. There are vegan margarines.

The better way, imo, would just be to do a chocolate cake. It's like 5 minutes prep, I'd bet you have the ingredients, and it's the best chocolate cake you've ever had.

Preheat oven to 350.

In a bowl -

1 1/2 c. flour
1 c. sugar
1/3 c. unsweetened cocoa (usually I add another couple tablespoons, it's forgiving)
1 tsp baking soda
1/3 tsp salt

In a measuring cup -

1/3 c. oil (I use a good olive oil because it's what I've got. Anything vegetable-based will do, doesn't matter at all)
1 c. cold water
1 1/2 tbsp white vinegar

You can also add a bit of vanilla or some black coffee in place of a few spoons of the water, or toss a spoon of instant coffee into the dry.

Dump the wet into the dry. Stir (it may foam up a bit, that's the vinegar/baking soda). Pour into a cake pan. Bake for about 25 minutes.