Turkey alternatives
Click on over to the NYTimes food section, where today they offer a great vegan-friendly Thanksgiving recipe for sweet potato squash soup.
And kudos to Cooking Light, who have an online feature of vegetarian Thanksgiving receipes.
I’m sure there are many other vegetarian-friendly resources out there for Thanksgiving recipes – this is just the tip of my (very limited at the moment) iceberg. Any others you recommend?
Coming out (of the root cellar)
So I dropped the news to the parents this morning. I thought it might be better to tell them before I visit for Thanksgiving – although it would certainly have been entertaining to spring it on them as my mother was carving the turkey.
At first, they suggested that perhaps I just cut down on my meat intake. I could stop buying meat and cooking it at home, but continue to enjoy a filet mignon or grilled salmon here and there when I go out. I explained that this would sort of defeat the purpose. They seemed skeptical about my ability to actually make it through a year as a vegetarian (they know how picky I can be), but ultimately were supportive.
They did ask one question, though, that will require a bit of research: how to make up for the B12, iron, and protein I will be losing? I don’t want to just start self-proscribing supplements without looking into them further. Any vegetarians want to weigh in on how they make up for lost nutrients?
And a side note: why is it that the New Yorker food issue comes out the week I decide to go vegetarian? That is just mean, people.