The dishes linked below are my favorites for the holidays. Some are traditional and others are not, but they are all appropriate for a holiday feast. If you are new to healthy holiday cooking and want to ensure your guests will love your food at first bite, here are a handful of recommendations from the longer list below:
Appetizer: Tu-no Salad Wraps. Main dish: Lentil-Rice Loaf, Beefless Stew, or Scalloped Potatoes. Salad: Creamy Coleslaw, Caesar-y Salad, or Quinoa Salad with Currants and Pistachios. Sides: Mashed Potatoes with Mushroom Gravy, Walnut-Pumpkin Cornbread, and/or Raw Cranberry-Persimmon Relish. Dessert: Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie, Carrot Cake.
Appetizers:
Avocado-Garbanzo Dip
Tu-no Salad Wraps
Baba Ghanoush
Salads:
Caesar-y Salad
Creamy Coleslaw
4-Bean Salad
Cabbage Salad with Dijon-lime Dressing
Thanksgiving Salad
Sweet Beet Salad
Rice Salad with Asparagus & Shiitake Mushrooms
Quinoa Salad with Currants and Pistachios
Main Dishes:
Savory Holiday Muffins
Stuffed Peppers
Mushroom Risotto
Lentil-Rice Loaf
Mushroom Basil Au Gratin
Vegetable Quiche
Scalloped Potatoes
Shepherds Pie
Curry Rice Casserole
Stuffed Portabella Mushrooms
Soups & Stews:
Beefless Stew
Yellow Split Pea & Butternut Soup
Jambalaya Stew
Cauliflower Soup
Corn Chowder
Broccoli Soup
Creamy Mushroom Soup
Pumpkin Curry Soup
Wild Mushroom Soup
Sides:
Raw Cranberry-Persimmon Relish
Cranberry Jelly
Mashed Potatoes with Creamy Mushroom Gravy
Mashed Potato Bake
Irish Potatoes
Chunky Cranberry Sauce
Spicy Beans and Greens
Pumpkin-Walnut Cornbread
Crabless Cakes
Desserts:
Apple Crisp
Sweet Potato-Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Pie Squares
No-bake Pumpkin Cream Pie
Almond-Poppy Seed Cake
Zucchini Bread
Carrot Cake
Mini Raspberry-Lemon Cheesecakes
Pecan-Persimmon Muffins
Pumpkin Muffins
Breakfast:
Oil-free Hash Browns
Blueberry Muffins
Potato-Veggie Scramble with Homemade Ketchup
Oatmeal-lemon Pancakes
Oatmeal Waffles
Baked Oatmeal with Apples and Raisins
I love those dresses! My mother was in her late teens that year but if I'd found those outfits tucked away, I totally would have worn it at our family Thanksgiving's at a teen in the late 90's.
Is Miles a Bengal cat?
Hi Melanie, no he's a tabby. 🙂
Well, they are all adorable!
I love your blog-I just stumbled upon it while searching for healthy eating sites. I am trying to cure my Crohn's disease through diet modifications.
Be well,
Hi Melanie, Yes they are, so super cute, thank you. 🙂 Welcome to the blog and yay for you changing your diet! 😉
Melanie, I just wanted to send you some encouragement. You can absolutely cure your Crohn's disease by changing your diet-- stay with it.
Be careful. I think those two cats on the left are planning some sort of insurrection, maybe all three.
I think all 3! 😉
You are a star for sharing this!
These recipes are amazing! We have just become full time vegetarian's with a goal to incorporating a low fat whole food plant based diet! These recipes are going to come in handy for Christmas dinner this year. Excited to try all these wonderful sounding dishes!
Thanks Tammy! 🙂
How about some plant based banana bread?
Maybe some flax seed,Graham flour,Chia seeds, etc. ...
I made the oatmeal raisin cookies tonight. They’re really good! Thanks! I’m taking them to a Thanksgiving meal this Thursday.
Yum! Happy Thanksgiving John! 🙂