November 10, 2004

Vegan Spam

Winter is definately on its way. Today we dropped just below 40* in NY, and it was, well... miserable. I hate-hate-HATE the winter. Because winter really depresses me, I'm trying to think of all of the things I DO like about winter. I noticed a lot of the things I like are vegan foods (figures! lol). Among my favorite things about winter are:
*CHRISTMAS!
*making (and eating) Christmas cookies
*Candy Canes (so awesome, so festive, so vegan)
*shopping for presents
*Christmas songs
*Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (okay, this one is actually a lie... I've
never roasted chestnuts on an open fire. I don't have a fireplace--I live in
Brooklyn! But I felt I had to throw that in)
*Ice skating
*Coming home after ice skating and drinking hot chocolate (made w/ soy)
*Wintertime window displays at Macy*s, Barneys, Saks and Bloomingdales
*The first snow of the season. This, for the record, is the only snow I like.
*Rockefeller Center
*The Muppet Christmas Special
*Any kind of soup, ever. (today I had vegetable jambalaya!!! yum!)

...actually, as I'm listing this, I'm realizing that I don't like much about winter besides soup and hot chocolate... I just REALLY like Christmas. :-
On a non-Christmas note, Thanksgiving is coming. www.vegweb.com has a great recipe archive, and every year they section out some of their favorite Thanksgiving recipes for people to peruse.
Last year, I made a fantastic vegan tofu-pumpkin pie (you use the tofu to make the filling so that you don't need eggs) that none of my family members would've guessed was vegan, until they saw me eating it! :-) The year before, I used a lot of vegweb.com's recipes for side dishes to contribute to a family buffet Thanksgiving.
And, of course, every year I have a fake turkey. I know, it's soooo dumb, but I'd feel left out without it. Last year I got a Tofurky, and it was good! But the year before, I got some other fake turkey, it was SHAPED like a picture of a turkey! It was really weird--it looked like a brown Jell-o Jiggler (remember those?) that had been made w/ a turkey shaped cookie cutter. To top it off, it tasted like clay.
I guess some things happen like that. Thank god the Tofurky was good. I hear Now and Zen's un-Turkey dinner is great, too, but it usually feeds a lot of people, and I'm just one little vegan.

Until then, happy winter (ugh).

-Mallory

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Posted by: BytchInNY at November 12, 2004 04:33 PM