The Lunchbox Bunch

You've seen a yummy smorgasbord of my Vegan Thanksgiving recipes over the past few weeks, but now the real work begins! The first step to achieving your perfect feast is menu planning. Project: Menu...

There's no need to feel upside-down after a dessert treat. This recipe will leave you feeling right-side-up. My Pear Right-Side-Up Cake is a super moist, perfectly sweet, low-fat dessert or tea cake that will not only taste delicious, but look quite charming...

At last! Everyone's favorite part of the Thanksgiving Feast: the delicious desserts. The dinner planning is over, the dishes have been cleared from the table and you're ready for to relax with a hot mug of cocoa, coffee or tea to go with a sweet cozy dessert treat...

If you're looking for an elegant, festive, and 100% vegan "twist-on-pumpkin-pie" dessert this Thanksgiving, I suggest you give my Swirled Cheesecake Pumpkin Pie a whirl...

Midway through my low-fat Pear Right-Side-Up Cake (to be posted tomorrow in my Thanksgiving Desserts post), I was wrist deep in perfectly mandolin-sliced pears when - slash! Sliced my finger. Lovely. And ouch. I bandaged my finger. Finished up my pear dessert...

Tired of Tofurky? Try my protein-rich Vegan Pumpkin Platter which features my Pumpkin-Pecan Crusted Tempeh and Pumpkin-Almond Crusted Tofu. Also included on this festive platter: Golden Orchard Quinoa dome, maple roasted sugar pumpkin slivers and salted roasted chestnuts...

Traditionally when people think of vegan protein on Thanksgiving four things come to mind: Tofurky, tofu, tempeh and seitan. But I wanted to kick off my "main dish proteins" recipes with a nontraditional vegan protein: quinoa. Quinoa 101 here...

Wanted: "main dish protein" at my vegan Thanksgiving feast. My no-Tofurky policy stands firm. I'm not against the cliche vegetarian turkey-substitute, but after a few Thanksgiving's of Tofurky-disappointment, I've moved on. To what, you ask...

Spicy. Creamy. Layers and layers of three types of thinly sliced potatoes. My vegan Triple Spiced Creamy Potatoes Au Gratin is a home style comfort-food recipe with some serious snob appeal. Potatoes gone chic.A Layered Secret. The secret to a really good potatoes au gratin is all about the layers...

Don't forget the veggies this Thanksgiving! I know you are craving that decadent once-a-year stuffing, some rice cream topped pumpkin pie and that tart tingle of cranberry sauce hitting your taste buds...

Good things come to those who wait. Patiently. How was your weekend my foodie friends? Mine consisted of just enough Venti soy extra hot chai lattes, maple-almond buttered bagels, red papaya bowls, cranberry sauce making and fuyu persimmon buying...

I love cranberry sauce. It's a must-have dish at any Thanksgiving table. Those bright perky red cranberries bring a hint of sweet-tart zing to anything on your plate. Cranberry Perfection. The trick to really good cranberry sauce is keeping that sweet to zing balance in line...

Today is one of my favorite days in my Vegan Thanksgiving Series: Stuffing Day! Stuffing (and sweet potatoes) were always my favorite childhood Thanksgiving dishes. So it was important to me to perfect a few stuffing recipes that were 100% vegan...

I hope you've already read my Vegan Stuffing 101 post, and now you are ready to continue my Vegan Thanksgiving Series by diving into three creative and delicious vegan stuffing recipes. This is the definitive post for vegan stuffing. Look no further. Three yummy recipes to choose from...