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[ErinluvsKen]

So I ended up making a Mexican (Enchilada) Casserole with refried beans, black beans, sweet potatoes, stir fried veggies, salsa, tomatoes, corn tortillas and homemade enchilada sauce and homemade "cheese" sauce....My house smells so good...I can't wait for it to be done cooking!

[ErinluvsKen]

Tonight I want to make Veggie Lo Mein.  I usually pan fry tofu in peanut oil and add that to the Lo Mein at the end, but I'm out of tofu.  Any suggestions for adding protein?

[clothdipemomof2boy]

Yesterday for christmas I had stuffed acorn squash. My stuffing had chopped pecans in it

[catnip]

Christmas dinner: Tamales, beans, tortillas, roasted butternut squash, salad with mango-pepita dressing, guacamole, mango-avocado, roasted red and cranberry salsas, and fresh made churros for desert. And Mexican hot cocoa.

[maciascl]

Originally Posted by catnip 

Christmas dinner: Tamales, beans, tortillas, roasted butternut squash, salad with mango-pepita dressing, guacamole, mango-avocado, roasted red and cranberry salsas, and fresh made churros for desert. And Mexican hot cocoa.

That sounds so yummy! What was in the tamales. We've been eating alot of cheese & jalapeno or sweet (raisin & pineapple) ones but we want to make some others that are vegan. Any suggestions?

[catnip]

We do sweet potato black bean mole, butternut squash and carmelized onion with a hint of chipotle, roasted chili and corn, and spinach-mushroom. Made them back in October and froze them.

[kismetbaby]

Hi there!  

Well, I realized that my mother cooks everything with butter. . .somehow I hadn't realized that before this year. Sigh. So, I wound up cooking twice while with my family for Christmas since I (and my DH) were the only vegetarians and one night I ended up with only a baked potato to eat!  Luckily I enjoy cooking and there is a Whole Foods super close to my mom's house.  But I'm back to my own vegan kitchen now, yay!

Last night was green salad, butternut squash soup and bread. 

Today I am cooking up a big pot of black beans, but I haven't decided how to use them yet. Probably a mango, quinoa, bean salad one night and some sort of burritos or enchiladas another night.

Catnip--mmmmm tamales! I grew up in NM so tamales are what everyone does for Christmas. Yummy.  My mom did a big pot of posole this year and did manage to make that vegan. 

[maciascl]

Thanks for the ideas Catnip!

I have spent all day making sheppards pie & sweet ptato biscuts from The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook. These seem like easy recipes but involve way more steps than I typically go for, and crabby baby & a sick 4 year old don't help. This better be good!

[Dickinson]

This is a great thread! I have gotten so many good ideas...thanks Catnip! Maciascl, I hope your dinner turned out well...it sounded delicious.

Well, I haven't got anything exciting planned for tonight, just stirfry tofu and vegs...the big choice will be udon or brown riceLOL. My husband is 1/2 Italian and gets a bit freakish about "pasta" in anything but Italian clothing, so Udon is pushing it.

Anyone have a good New Year's meal planned? We are doing a bonfire tomorrow night with snacks and beer for the grown-ups but I am drawing a blank for the rest of the weekend.

[maciascl]

Shepperds pie was good but I think I'd skip the hassel & just make the filling over mashed potatoes or rice.

For New Years we are doing lots of snacks, not very healthy & mostly pre made, frozen stuff. Tofurky keilbasa (saving some for Hoppin John tomorrow), black bean taquitos with guacamole, and veggies purses, almond champange and persimmon cookies.

[kismetbaby]

I guess we're gonna need a Jan thread here huh?!  

We got stomach flu here right before New Years, so all my black-eyed-pea plans went out the window.  Bummer. It's been super plain (boring) food since we've braved eating again. Lentil stew last night.  But hopefully next week we'l be back to normal.  

Anyone have/used the cookbook Supermarket Vegan?  I'm thinking of buying it, but I've never even thumbed through it and want to make sure it's worth owning.