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I adore Thanksgiving. There’s food and family and it’s the start of the Christmas season. Christmas day always feels a little bittersweet to me because it’s the end of the wonderful season and in a week, you have to stop listening to Christmas music for another 11 months.
With Thanksgiving, the entire glory of Christmas, with the music and decorating and thinking of others and, most importantly, time to reflect on the Savior, is still ahead of you. And Thanksgiving food. I get asked all the time what I do for Thanksgiving since I’m a vegetarian, to which I reply, what do YOU do?
Really, basically everything except the turkey is vegetarian-friendly (and I absolutely refuse to do tofurky or any other mysterious meat substitutes. Just give me gobs of cheese and cream and roasted veggies, please). And most people I know when forced to choose between turkey and pie would choose the latter, anyway.
Though it’s hard to choose a true favorite, this one is definitely near the top. Infinitely better than that marshmallow-laden junk, I feel fairly confident in saying that if you make this once, it will never again leave your Thanksgiving table.
Happy unTurkey day!
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| Please forgive the terrible photo from nearly a decade ago |
