Raw Thanksgiving

[emily]

Is anyone here making an entirely raw thanksgiving dinner? I'm curious about your menu. And if anyone is just having some raw dishes, I'd love to know about those, too. Thanks!

[Raw Jewelrylady]

Hi- I am making Raw for myself-and a little cooked for DH-but he will eat my Raw as well.

I am still testing recipes, but the menu is looking like,
Appetizer plate of

black olives & green olives
stuffed celery

dinner:
marinated greens
some type of nut pate -wrapped in romaine
mashed taters-maybe gravy
sweet potatoe pie
cranberries

That's what I'm thinking. It's all up to what I find in the Market on Monday.

Lana

[musicalfruit]

I plan on pigging out!!

I will be eating mostly raw with some cooked.
ie:
starters:
Nut pate' on flax crackers
olive tapenade on crusty bread
various cut vegies with red pepper hummus

salad: mixed baby greens,thinly sliced radish, carrot, zuccini, cucumber, portabelo mushrooms, black olives,pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, with crunchy herb-garlic croutons, dressing: garlic lemon basil EVOO and red wine vinegar.

Main:
Garlic mashed potatoes whipped with olive oil and sea salt.
Marinated green beans
Broccoli and cauliflour salad with lemon zest and thyme
Vegi-"meat loaf" with gravy

Fruit salad: star fruit, mango, pineapple, grapes, cherries, mandarin orange slices,bannanas, apples,persimmons, cherimoya, and peaches with a lime honey dressing
desert:
Various raw chocolate truffles and dried fruit dipped in allergen free chocolate.
and PUMPKIN PIE!! ohh I love pumpkin pie.

If I get a stomach ache so be it!! it will be totally worth it.

[juliebove]

I've done three kinds of nuts/dried fruit mixes, will be making onion bread and two kinds of nut cheese. We always have a green salad and plenty of assorted raw veggies. Might be doing some chayote if I can find it. Have had trouble finding more than one in a store and am not sure if that will work raw. Have only ever made it cooked. There will be some cooked foods at the table but I'm not sure what they will be. We have so many food allergies and medical problems involving food in our family, it is difficult to come up with a meal we can all eat. So we usually have a lot of variety, but somewhat small amounts of those things because not everyone will be eating them.

[flyingpositive]

Is anyone here making an entirely raw thanksgiving dinner? I'm curious about your menu. And if anyone is just having some raw dishes, I'd love to know about those, too. Thanks!
I would like to know everyone's menu palns too. I'm still trying to come up w/ some ideas......hmmm

[emily]

Thanks! This is helpful... my friends and I are doing a very laidback Thanksgiving this year (too far away from family)... and I guess I'm in charge of the menu.

[girlsmiley]

Might be doing some chayote if I can find it. Have had trouble finding more than one in a store and am not sure if that will work raw. Have only ever made it cooked.
I just had some chayote diced up in my salad ... it was very good!

[RowanC]

Anyone who hasn't tried the Mock Turkey Loaf from Alissa's book is in for a great and wonderful surprise! It RAWKS!

That, served with raw cranberry sauce and a raw pumpkin pie or carrot cake, takes away any and all of those cravings if you have to go smell someone's cooked dinner. Just take this along and you'll be fine.

I LOVE this stuff!

[Rawkinlocs]

bumping up for the upcoming holiday! :)

[Nini]

Herbed Pecan Stuffing
by Karen Parker

• 1 cup almonds, soaked 12 hours
• 1 cup walnuts, soaked 2 hours
• 2 cups pecans, soaked 1 hour
• ½ cup raisins, rehydrated in water
• ½ cup cranberries, unsweetened
• ½ cup parsnips, finely chopped
• 1½ cups sweet apples, diced
• 1½ cups celery, diced
• ½ cup olive oil
• ¼ cup fresh sage, minced
• 2 tablespoons fresh, young rosemary, minced
• 4 tablespoons fresh thyme, minced
• 4 tablespoons fresh marjoram, minced
• 2 tablespoons Celtic sea salt

Combine pecans, almonds and walnuts in food processor. Pulse nuts until they are slightly grounded (you don't want to emulsify them). Add raisins and pulse for 20 seconds. Transfer mixture to large mixing bowl.

Stir in all remaining ingredients. Place stuffing onto dehydrator trays and dehydrate at 90°F for 12 hours or until dry. Serve stuffing warm from dehydrator with gravy. Stuffing mixture can also be made in advance. It stores for up to 3 days in the refrigerator prior to dehydration, and up to two weeks after dehydration.. In blender, combine miso, water, herbs, oil, salt, white pepper and leeks until very creamy. It should taste too salty. Pour miso mixture into mesh bag, catching all liquid that comes out (liquid will be used in Holiday Gravy recipe opposite). Continue to squeeze liquid out of bag until no more will come out.

Holiday Cranberry Salad

2 cups fresh Cranberries (ground with an S blade in a food processor)

1 organic Orange (wash well - then finely grate skin and chop flesh very fine)

2 ripe Pears (peeled and chopped fine)
1 sweet Apple (peeled and chopped fine)
½ cup Walnuts or Pecans (chopped into small pieces)
4 Celery ribs (chopped fine)
½ cup organic Raisins
½ teaspoon ground Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground Ginger
¼ teaspoon ground Allspice
½ cup raw, unfiltered Honey

Grind berries, grate orange skin, chop fruit, mince nuts, and chop celery. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Cover and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

[Zaphirah]

That herb stuffing sounds divine for making stuffed mushroom caps.

[rawgreenyogini]

I have a creation brewing.....it involves crepes and mushrooms with sage/cream sauce.

When I've run it through the rgy test kitchen....I'll post.

[Lady Green Jeans]

rgy, Can hardly wait for the test results--sounds really delicious.

nini, Thank you for sharing your recipes. They both sound awsome--little spice in the cranberrys got me right off. I simply have to try them before the holiday as I will be taking them with me to dinner.

Will be making either nini's stuffing or Alissa's. Same with the cranberry salad. Mashed potatoes will be an experiment using cauliflower, parsnips and maybe rutabaga or jicima. (If i don't do potatoes, would like to experiment with a rice/veggie dish instead). Mushroom gravy is a given--adore it. Green salad with avos, tomatoes and everything else I can cram in there.

Raw green and black olives and stuffed celery on the relish tray. May even make the deviled egg filling and put in white button mushroom tops or criminis.

Not terribly big on the raw desserts, but would be open to a small pie or maybe the lemon poppyseed cake recently posted.

Now, we have to wait and wait for the big day to come!

[Raspberry4]

Oh my - all of your food sounds so much better than the SAD stuff I have been used to. My mouth is watering....


Anyone have any ideas of where to buy raw olives (green/black) on line that aren't sundried down to looking like a prune????

Thanks for making the Thanksgiving Holiday sound absolutely rawlicious and 'do-able'.

[Zaphirah]

alissa has some on her site. yummo! (this is coming from a gal who used to GAG on olives! LOL!)

[Gittel]

Would someone please guide me to the mushroom gravy recipe thread? Thanks!

Gittel

[eachpeachpearplum]

Herbed Pecan Stuffing
by Karen Parker

Stir in all remaining ingredients. Place stuffing onto dehydrator trays and dehydrate at 90°F for 12 hours or until dry. Serve stuffing warm from dehydrator with gravy. Stuffing mixture can also be made in advance. It stores for up to 3 days in the refrigerator prior to dehydration, and up to two weeks after dehydration.. In blender, combine miso, water, herbs, oil, salt, white pepper and leeks until very creamy. It should taste too salty. Pour miso mixture into mesh bag, catching all liquid that comes out (liquid will be used in Holiday Gravy recipe opposite). Continue to squeeze liquid out of bag until no more will come out.



Thank you so much for sharing!!!:p

I was intregued by the words "used in Holiday Gravy recipe opposite" and did a search. Here it is at this link (scroll to bottom):

http://www.sunraw.com/articles/good_food.htm

[Lady Green Jeans]

Leah,

Would love your creation recipe using mushrooms, sage/cream sauce if it passed your wonderful test kitchen.

[SmilingRawDancer]

I think that for thanksgiving I'm going to have an exquisite raw breakfast in the comfort of my own home, and then when I go to my aunts for the big family gathering, I'm taking a "salad buffet" :)
I'll have a whole spread:
Greens, varied
Sliced avocado
tomatoes
onions
Garlic
Bell peppers
Sprouts
Vinegar
Oils
Spices :)

My aunt will have processed dressings, so all the other folk can eat animal products as they choose.

[dalimeindacoconut]

I've just decided because of reading this post that I am going to bring my: cauliflower mashed potatos and my new pinenut/jicama/carrot pate as an appetizer. I never bring anything over for Thanksgiving and it's about time I do. I do believe everyone will be in for a huge yummy surprise! Well, if I don't bring one I will bring the other.

[tvillemom]

bumping up.
Wondering which recipe to make of Alissa's...her mock turkey loaf or noasted turkey? Also, where is the mushroom gravy, is it Alissa's too???

Thanks....I have no idea what I want to make. I do want to make a butternut squash pie....never made one before, and I just hope it turns out OK...

Wendi

[tvillemom]

What about those crepes???

Wendi

[sugarsnap]

Hi everyone. There will be 24 of us and I am the only raw vegan in the group. My sister in-law is a vegan, but may break to eat turkey.
So having said that, I've alerted my mom and dh that I will be bringing some food for me and will not touch the turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes etc.
I will eat however, my father-in-laws steamed red cabbage and I will bring the following:
Herbed Pecan Stuffing (Nini posted)
Kale Medely with Almond Feta Cheese
Raw Pumpkin Pie
Spinach Salad with fresh fruit

For the A&M game Friday:
Zucchini Hummus with flax crackers
Quac with raw corn chips
I can't remember the name of this one, you make a filling with cauliflower,raisens, spices, mint and roll in marinated leaves ( I used collard as I cannot locate grape) like a dolma. It also has a great sauce you dip in.

I am bringing my smoothie ingrediants for breakfast.
Happy Gobble Gobble.

:D