Pictured Cauliflower Alfredo, Spinach, Artichoke Lasagna. SF, can be GF
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Today, 8 years ago, my life completely changed. Though I wouldn’t know how much until a few weeks later. It took years to stop fighting and trying to find reasons, diagnosis, prognosis and just accept things and let them heal and move at their own pace. Everyday I still deal with balance, reading, vertigo, other related issues. In the first few years post the event, I would have spiraled down into deep depression, but I didn’t thanks to my amazingly resilient and supportive husband, and family. I started the blog to keep me occupied and slowly realized my love for cooking and creating in the kitchen. Every year I grow at my own pace. There are always newer roadblocks, but eventually we get through them.
This year, I am as always thankful for my Husband. I am thankful for this blog, because it gave me something to do, for you the readers for following me along, and liking what I create. Thank you for being a part of my life. You wouldn’t know how some of the comments cheer me up on the not so good days when I can barely stand in the kitchen or edit or do anything worthwhile.
I am thankful for the response to my Book! Its an understatement that I was blown away by all the love! I think I am always wary of good things in my life. It comes with the anxiety issues, the feeling that everything will go away again. But if that happens, we will figure something else out. 🙂
What are you thankful for this year.
Back to Thanksgiving Recipes. Here is a huge round up to get you started.
All Vegan, Awesome and delicious. Most generally low fat, baked, use whole ingredients, no Palm oil. There are plenty of Gluten-free(GF) and Soy-free(SF) and grain-free options.
Most Recipes also have substitutions to make them allergen friendly mentioned on the recipe posts. Desserts and some recipes that are naturally soy-free are not marked SF.
Whats coming next week!
If you make something from the blog, please do tag #veganricha on social media!
Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes 2014
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Gobi Musalam – Whole Roasted Cauliflower with creamy gravy. (GF SF) Carve this beauty. Pictured above.
Lasagna with Chipotle Cauliflower sauce, Mushrooms, Spinach, Jalapeno garlic Havarti layers.
Lasagna Bechamel with Sweet Potato and Cauliflower layers. SF
Cauliflower Alfredo, Spinach, Artichoke Lasagna. SF can be GF
Easy Vegan Veggies Lasagna. Can be GF
Lasagna Bolognese (Can be made GF with Gf Lasagna sheets)
Nacho Mac Casserole with Tempeh meat
Ziti Cheddar Brussels Sprouts Bake.
Cauliflower Broccoli Pie with Potato Black Eyed Pea Crust. GF SF grain-free
Dreena’s No Fu Loaf
Heather’s Pumpkin Ravioli with Hazelnut Tarragon Butter
Over-Stuffed Mushrooms with herbed Chickpeas, veggies, cashews. Pictured above. SF Easily GF.
Chickpea Stuffed Poblano Peppers with roasted red pepper sauce. GF SF
Lentil Stuffed Sweet Potatoes. GF SF
Chickpea Cauliflower Tacos with Lentil Mung Bean Tortillas. GF SF Grain-free
Dana’s Lentil Shepherd’s Pie
Red Lentil Cauliflower Cutlets/patties (GF SF, grain-free). Pictured above
Potato Quinoa Patties (GF SF)
PPK’s Stuffed Thanksgiving Burger
Spicy Mac & Yease . Insanely delicious
Quinoa shells in Jalapeno garlic sauce (GF SF)
Roasted tomato Chipotle Cauliflower sauce Mac and cheese (SF)
More Mac and Cheese from the blog including Black pepper mac, Masala Mac here.
Pumpkin Sage Pasta with Pumpkin Cream Sauce and crispy Sage. SF, easily GF
Breaded Brussels sprouts (GF SF) Pictured above
Green Beans with fennel seeds, lentils and cilantro (GF SF)
Chickpea Chorizo, Quinoa Shells in Tomato Sauce. GF
Kristy’s Chickpea Caulipots with Miso Mushroom gravy
Kathy’s Smashed Sweet Potato Fritters crusted with Pumpkin seeds and Pistachios!
Cream of Mushroom soup (GF) Pictured above
Cremini Mushroom, Shallot, Shallot soup
Creamy Spinach soup (GF SF)
Curried Butternut Soup with toasted coconut and Pepitas.
Roasted Asparagus Basil soup.
Heather’s Cheesy Potato Broccoli Soup
Tempeh and Pumpkin Bread Stuffing – make muffin cup appetizers or phyllo pots with the stuffing! Pictured above
Cornbread Stuffing
Jackie’s Quinoa Stuffed Acorn
Bitter and Sweet Asian Quinoa Salad
Okra Poppers – Okra cooked with chickpea flour and spices (GF SF)
Gena’s Butternut, Brussels Sprouts, Bread and Apple Stuffing
Fluffy White Dinner rolls SF
Multi-grain rolls (Spelt, rye, kamut, sorghum, barley). Pictured above. SF
Rye Almond rolls SF
Pumpkin Sage Biscuits. SF
Gluten-free Jalapeno PepperJack Biscuits. GF
Sweet Potato Biscuits – 100% Spelt . SF
Sweet Potato Kale Cornbread GF SF
Gluten-free Focaccia (gum-free) GF SF
Cinnamon Rolls with maple coffee icing .
Pumpkin spice Muffins
Blueberry Crisp topped Baked French Toasts
Spiced Sweet Potato Doughnuts with Cinnamon sugar
Cinnamon Roll pancakes, GF option
Tiramisu Pancakes
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with lime coconut glaze
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls with Pumpkin Caramel. GF Yeast-free
Savory:
Broccolini White Bean Frittata. SF GF
Portobello Mushrooms stuffed with Hash browns. (GF SF)
Samosa Potatoes Stuffed French Toasts
Fluffy Chickpea flour Omelet. SF GF
Soy-free Vegetable Omelette (GF SF)
Lentil Mung Bean Omelette with Blackened Veggies and Havarti GF SF
Smoky Asparagus Tofu Scramble.
No Bake Pumpkin Pie with Gingerbread Crust. GF
Creme Brulee – GF
Tiramisu Trifles
Chocolate Pumpkin Tart with Almond Crust. GF SF Grain-free.
Salted Caramel Chocolate Pie. GF No Bake
Dark Chocolate Silk Pie. GF SF
Triple Layer Chocolate Mousse Cake. GF No Bake, No Palm-oil
Pumpkin Mousse Cake with Vanilla Spelt Sponge.
Sweet Potato Blondies with mini chocolate Chips GF
Pumpkin Brownies.
More Brownies, GF options.
Spiced Apple Cake with salted caramel
Dreena’s Pumpkin Pie custards
Below are my favorite Sanctuaries that have had to work against the tide and keep working tirelessly for animals and people. Please keep these sanctuaries in mind forHoliday Donations.
WildlifeSOS, is an amazing organization. They stand out for the consistent efforts towards helping wildlife, and genius solutions like providing an alternate training and lifestyle to the kalandar dancing bear community, so that the people can find other methods of earning and living rather than hunting for baby bears again when their dancing bears were taken to the sanctuary.
Currently, they have been in the news for helping Over-worked and illegally owned elephants and helping to get then to the sanctuaries. Elephants that have never known freedom for 4o to 50 years since their birth, are used as begging elephants, are always tortured, shackled, beaten by all the several owners they have had over the years. Some of those Elephants are now in the sanctuaries learning to trust humans again and living a free life.
VSPCA, I cannot really fathom how everyone here does it day in and day out. They take in all the cows and calfs that are dumped as unusable, they rehabilitate domestic animals as well wild animals and birds like parrots, ducks, turtles. They house discarded hens, pigs and any farm animals. And they also serve vegan meals to the homeless, educate and spread the word.
VSPCA also invests in self sustaining infrastructure so that the 1000 and more animals can live their lives peacefully. They recently went through a cyclone and currently are rebuilding and caring for all those animals through the pounding storms. I am always amazed by the selfless work of all the volunteers and workers at VSPCA and they always wil be an organization that I support.
Yes, that is Phil Wollen visiting the sanctuary. He is one of the supporters of the Kindness Farm at the sanctuary.
Archena says
November 14, 2014 at 3:21 pmThank you Richa! Happy Thanksgiving!
Richa says
November 14, 2014 at 8:23 pmHappy Thanksgiving to you too!
Trish says
November 14, 2014 at 6:32 pmHi Richa I was finally able to take the time to read “about you” and am so grateful for your sharing. I adored your recipes before… and now they are even more special knowing about your health situation and your love for ALL sentient beings! Thank you so much for all you do!
I was wondering…would you consider doing a gluten free vegan buckwheat flour bread that is sourdough instead of yeast? I’ve never found one though I did see a video where such a buckwheat bread was made in conjuction with a museum project…sorry I don’t have the name or link…so I know it can be done …and you definitely have the bread baking skills to make it a reality for many of us to enjoy 🙂 Be well …and may all beings have peace.
Richa says
November 14, 2014 at 8:25 pmThank you Trish.
I have a sourdough gf bread on the blog. you can omit the regular active yeast from the recipe. Also, sourdough is also yeast. wild yeast that ferments the batter/dough.
http://www.veganricha.com/2012/05/gluten-free-sourdough-bread-with.html
I will see if I can make a buckwheat version.
Silvia says
November 14, 2014 at 11:12 pmHappy Thanksgiving Richa! You’re my favorite blogger, really talented and I appreciate you sharing your story. I wish you knew how creative you are to the rest of us so that you can feel more confident in knowing you have made my switch to vegan lifestyle easier.
Richa says
November 15, 2014 at 1:48 pmThank you silvia! I am so glad that my recipes have been helpful. sometimes I think I create way too different recipes, but then everyone tries them and loves them. So that definitely helps give me confidence to continue to be creative 🙂
Mia says
November 15, 2014 at 1:40 amI am so very thankful for all the vegan bloggers and cookbook authors who bring so much inspiration and joy to my kitchen and my belly! In the pre-internet days, it was difficult and lonely trying to live a cruelty-free life with very little information or resources available. In the last few years there has been such a wonderful blossoming of connection and sharing. Thank you Richa for sharing your recipes and life. You have a great talent for recipe creation – we love your food!
xx
Richa says
November 15, 2014 at 1:49 pmI know right. It would be quite lonely without having the support and connections on the web.
Thank you loving the recipes Mia ! I am so glad they work out for you <3 <3
Mia says
November 17, 2014 at 7:39 amThanks Richa!
I know what you mean about the strong taste of coconut oil 🙂
Mia says
November 15, 2014 at 1:43 amP.S. Mmm – looking at the Triple Layer Chocolate Mousse Cake recipe – would it work with coconut oil instead of cocoa butter? Cocoa butter is hard to find here, and when I have seen it, it has been ridiculously expensive.
Richa says
November 15, 2014 at 1:50 pmhmm coconut oil would make it taste quite coconutty. use vegan butter + coconut oil.
Mia says
November 17, 2014 at 7:34 amThanks Richa 🙂
Susan says
November 15, 2014 at 5:45 amThanks so much for this post! So glad this is how you occupy your time.
Richa says
November 15, 2014 at 1:50 pmThank you susan.
Lili says
November 15, 2014 at 8:47 amI don’t know where to start! It all looks and sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing your journey and love that you love to cook this way too, an inspiration!
Frances says
November 15, 2014 at 10:08 amRicha,
I have been following your blog for a while, but it is only today that I learned that you had a meningioma removed. I had a craniotomy in 2009 to remove mine. Mine was malignant, but thanks to God, I have been healthy for 5 years now. Eating a healthy diet is key to remaining healthy! Thanks for your recipes.
Richa says
November 15, 2014 at 1:51 pmCongratulations on the 5 years. to healthy food indeed! Stay healthy, tumor free and happy!
Anjali (Vegetarian Gastronomy) says
November 16, 2014 at 7:00 pmI’ve read your story in the past, and you, your personality, your attitude about life, and of course all you’ve accomplished with this blog and your new book is an inspiration for all of us! Keep fighting back when you need to! Thanks for the great roundup! Happy Thanksgiving…
IR says
November 16, 2014 at 10:28 pmThank you much for updating us on your health, I am so sorry you still suffer those symptoms. Youre a very strong woman with a warm gentle heart. I also suffer from vertigo, attend vestibular therapy, have Celiacs/IBS, & recently had my first kidney infection and stone..Thank you for bringing joy to us, especially on those days you can’t stand, on those days youre too weak..your blog and recipes gave me strength to keep on in life, even on those days I could not stand to cook for myself..I became veg when I met my Hindu boyfriend & stumbled on your blog, with your delicious recipes..Sometimes God gives us difficulties in life to be a blessing and truly inspirational for others, and ultimately change the world. That is what you have done to each and every one of your followers =). God bless you & your family, & may you feel better soon!
Richa says
December 18, 2015 at 10:24 pmThank you Isabel. Hope you feel better soon and the next year is wonderful. Thank you for your kind words on so many of my posts.
shreya says
November 26, 2014 at 3:06 amI just can’t control my hunger after seeing the yummy dishes….awesome…