It's Canadian Thanksgiving today!
The new tradition is this: we have vegan thanksgiving on canadian thanksgiving (you know, around harvest time, when it makes sense to have a harvest holiday) here with my parents, our veggie friends, and anyone else who'll appreciate it. Then we have the meatlover's version with the rest of the family on american thanksgiving. Complete with prayers for the president, and all the other american traditions. Guess which one's my favorite. 
We actually had our big meal yesterday. The wifest started cooking sometime saturday, while i did laundry, dishes, and generally tried to be useful despite my lack of cooking ninja skills. (although i did manage to finally make myself a pizza from scratch, last month while she was MIA due to wisdom tooth extraction).
She made:
- the obligatorytofurky (it's impossible to find unturkey until american thanksgiving, and last year we didn't have enough freezer space to buy one a year in advance.)
- malloreigh's mushroom gravy (from la dolce vegan)
- cranberry sauce (we had to have it again after last year. i never realized that the real stuff was so much better than the canned, and she never realized she even liked cranberries)
- green beans almondine
- salad with dried cranberries, candied almonds, and raspberry vinagrette (again, from LDV)
- broccoli, califlour, and cheeze
- garlic masshed potatoes
- cornbread
- pumpkin cheezecake with candied pecans on top(O!M!F!G!)
now we're on to the best part: a week of leftovers 
(okay, they're not actually going to last that long)
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Like you I lack cooking skills and early on in our relationship Beloved and I recognized that he excelled in this area whereas I was a clean freak so we divided duties accordingly. I do all scullery maid chopping and slicing stuff (mainly salads, cleaning, dishwashing, vaccuuming, and laundry and as many outdoor chores as possible to avoid being faced with having to provide the answer to the question: “What’s for dinner tonight?”
I think it’s so very cool that you are celebrating both Thanksgiving Days (a perfect excuse for 2 feasts). The mouthwatering vegetarian menu you ate sounds so yummy that I groaned. What really got to me was the orgasmic pumkpin cheesecake.
I’ve got a confession to make to you. Yesterday we ate “Al” (a real turkey who may be the subject matter of an up coming blog post) for dinner and he was very tasty indeed. And along with Al we ate one of my all time favourites – cabbage rolls. Everything we ate came from the island we live on and we gave thanks that we can make those healthy local food choices because so many people can’t.
P.S. I gave thanks for my blogging friends like you yesterday so hopefully you felt my *hug* across cyber space.
cabbage scares me. mainly because it’s purple. we had stirfry at the vegan meetup on sunday, and i ate everything except the cabbage. except that left me with an even purpler plate. very scary.
i’m actually not vegan (sometimes), so i’m not disturbed as much by eating turkey, as by still referring to him by name when discussing the meal.
we try our best to only eat local produce, but we do still buy some prepackaged things. anything you can do to reduce the amount of energy that you use is a good thing.
I’m here to tell you that all cabbage is not purple. Some is very pale green and when harvested at a very young and tender age while the heads are very small it’s not strongly flavoured at all.
We are primarily vegetarians we do eat dairy products and eggs. On occasions we do eat some foul and in all cases we are acquainted with the birds, their living conditions, feed, etc. We are acquainted with the cows and goats that provide our dairy products too.
By and large country folks don’t have difficulty with calling animals they intend to eat by names. But I can understand why you would feel uncomfortable about it after they were dead, I suppose.
Anyway, if we lived an urban lifestyle which we ran way from years ago then we would without question be looking at becoming vegan.:)
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