Holiday Recipes
Finding simple vegetarian holiday recipes can help alleviate holiday stress - especially if your family is not all vegetarian. My own family looks for easy ways to accommodate my diet while serving traditional dishes that everyone enjoys.
Fourth of July Vegetarian Recipes
French Dill Potato
Salad
Prep time: 10 min; Total time: 2 hours
Try serving this French dill potato salad on Easter, the Fourth of July, or at a picnic.
Because it requires no mayonnaise, it carries no risk of spoiling in your picnic basket -
and it's healthier than traditional potato salad.
Portobello Patty
Melt
Prep time: 20 min; Total time: 20 min
If you are grilling out for the Fourth, grill a juicy portobello mushroom and delicious,
sweet mushrooms. Melt Swiss cheese over your mushroom "burger" and you have a true
vegetarian patty melt!
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes
Thanksgiving
Cranberries
Prep time: 20 min; Total time: A few hours
These are the best cranberries you will ever have. Don't believe me? Ask my Bubbe. She'll
set you straight.
Vegetarian
Thanksgiving Stuffing
Prep time: 30 min; Total time: 40 min
This Thanksgiving I enjoyed a delicious, traditional stuffing - sans Italian sausage. The
vegetarian version is low calorie and low fat (unlike the traditional meat version).
Vegetarian
Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes
Prep time: 15 min; Total time: 40 min
Marshmallows aren't vegetarian - but let's face it: the Pilgrims didn't eat
marshmallows. So don't sweat it - instead make this vegetarian version with apricots
and walnuts. It tastes WAY better, it's healthier, and it does your dishes for you. Okay -
two outta three ain't bad.
Garlic Herb
Mashed Potatoes
Prep time: 15 min; Total time: 15 min
These aren't your grandma's mashed potatoes. The garlic and herbs give them a flavor fit
for a gourmet restaurant, and they are lower in fat than the traditional recipe. You can
also serve them on Christmas and Easter.
Jalepeno Cornbread
Prep time: 15 min; Total time: 40 min
Jalepeno cornbread is a variation on the original recipe with a pleasant kick. This recipe
is also vegan.
Vegan Pumpkin Pie
Prep time: 10 min; Total time: 65 min
My family has had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember. The recipe
here is my own creation - just as tasty as the original, but more nutritious!
Vegetarian Jewish Recipes
Sweet Potato
Tsimmes
Prep time: 15 min; Total time: 60 min
This is a traditional vegetarian Jewish recipe - always my favorite at holidays! You can
serve it at any holiday as it is kosher for Passover.
Apple Walnut Charoset
Prep time: 30 min; Total time: 30 min
This dish is traditionally made at Passover, but my friends like it so much that I serve
it as an hors d'ouvre at parties year round.
Noodle Kugel
Prep time: 30 min; Total time: 90 min
Noodle kugel is a traditional Jewish dish. This is my mother's recipe. I make it
occasionally for friends and co-workers and they talk about it for years afterwards it is
so scrumptious.