Our Thanksgiving Meal

For Thanksgiving we served the traditional turkey, gluten free stuffing, gluten free gravy, green beans with raw onion rings, a tossed salad, and baked potatoes/sweet potatoes, but we will also include a few vegan recipes as well as a couple of raw recipes, including raw cranberry relish, raw drinks raw cookies, and a raw pie.

For appetizers we had dates stuffed with goat cheese, daiya cheeze or almond butter, ranch dressing with veggies, and cheese/cheeze with gluten free crackers.

The raw onion rings (from Ani's Essential Raw book - thinly sliced

onions bread with soaked/sprouted, dehydrated, then ground buckwheat with herbs and dehydrated until crisp to top the lightly steamed green beans.

For the salad dressing we served two dressings.
The first is a Caesar type dressing. The recipe is as follows: ground pumpkin seeds (1/2 cup), 4 TBS olive oil, 1 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 TBS maple syrup or honey, 4 TBS raw apple cider vinegar or the juice from 1-2 lemons.

The second is a vegan ranch dressing 2 cups vegan mayo, 2 TBS parsley, 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar, 2 TBS onion powder.

Olive and vinegar were also available.

For the vegans we serve a roasted stuffed pumpkin. We stuffed the slit pumpkin with a sunflower seed based stuffing from http://rawveganpower.com/recipes/raw-vegan-thanksgiving-recipes/
and baked it at 350 for an hour and a half.

We made a raw cranberry relish.
We used 2 cups of raw cranberries, 1/2 cup of raisins, and 3/4 cup of dates dates in the food processor. After welled chopped, we added the 1 orange and 1 apples to pulse until well mixed. We also added the juice of one orange. At first we went with a 1/2 cup of dates, i loved it, but it wasn't sweet enough for the rest of the family.

We will finish off the meal with a raw "walnut" pie. We altered the recipe using hazelnuts and walnuts in the crust and just walnuts in the filling due to a pecan allergy. We added a chocolate layer on top of the crust, pouring the walnut and date filling on top of it. The recipe link is from http://heal-thy-self-cb.blogspot.com/2013/11/raw-walnut-pie-pecan-

We also had a plate of raw cookies. The link is http://heal-thy-self-cb.blogspot.com/2013/11/12-raw-christmas-cookies.html
My husband wanted WholeFoods' Chocolate Bourbon Pecan pie, so we had that as well.

Our beverages were nutnog from
http://www.rawmazing.com/raw-pumpkin-spice-hazelnut-nog/
For the Hazelnut milk we soaked 1 cup of hazelnuts overnight. In the morning we drained them, added them to the blendtec with 3 cups of water to make milk. We then followed the recipe for the raw pumpkin-spice hazelnut nog.

and Kombucha Sangria from  http://heal-thy-self-cb.blogspot.com/2013/11/kombucha-sangri.html

We also served iced tea and coffee.