Happy Thanksgiving!

As a vegetarian, I have been asked many times, what do I eat for Thanksgiving? Really, the better question is, what don't I eat? The answer: Turkey.

This year is the first year I've been with Adam's family for the actual holiday. It's interesting to eat Thanksgiving at someone else's home, because everyone has different traditions. For dinner tonight, I ate butternut squash soup, vegetarian cornbread stuffing (which Adam's dad was kind enough to throw together this afternoon when he realized I wouldn't be eating any of the other three stuffings they had), mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, broccoli pie, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, corn, and challah bread. My family doesn't have soup or bread at our Thanksgivings, so that was new to me, although Adam has made that butternut squash soup recipe for me several times. We still haven't even had dessert, for which I've counted three pies, a pumpkin roll, four breads, and some candy and cookies.

So yeah... I find food to eat at Thanksgiving. :-)

I'm looking forward to our second Thanksgiving at my parents' house on Saturday. My dad will make vegetarian stuffing and gravy. (His vegetarian gravy is SO good, and it's kind of funny, because their turkey gravy usually comes out of a jar so it's one less thing for them to worry about.) There will be cranberry jelly and cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans (not casserole, though), corn, brussels sprouts and creamed onions. Creamed onions may seem sort of odd to most people, but for some reason we have them every Thanksgiving, so I'd miss it if they weren't there. (Also, I never see creamed onions in the grocery store down where I live now... is it just a northeast thing?) The only food I won't eat is the turkey (and the turkey stuffing and gravy that accompany it). And of course, we will have at least four desserts... for 12 people.

I'd have to say my favorite Thanksgiving food is my dad's stuffing. It's really hard to choose though... those creamed onions are SO good... and I love cranberries... and now I can add butternut squash to the contenders. Luckily, gorging yourself on food is totally acceptable this one day of the year. :-)

What did you do for Thanksgiving? And what's your favorite food?