What do vegetarians eat for Thanksgiving?

[urbpan]

Well, if his wife’s parents take him out to a nice restaurant, he eats this:




Green salad with balsamic vinegar, dates and candied cashews. I didn’t order it, but my 13 year old step-daughter thought it was yucky, so I got to eat most of it!


The thing that looks like a slug is actually a slice of pear. The ball is bleu cheese, breaded and fried. Mmmmmmmmmm.


The main course. I’ll quote from the menu: Autumn Truffled Vegetable Pavé: Sweet Potato, Celeriac, Macomber Turnip and Parsnip, Seared Swiss Chard With Wild Mushroom Broth


And for dessert, a pastry puck of maple and pecans, on a plate drizzled with raspberry goop.

And, of course, lots of booze.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

It really *does* look like a slug!!!

[anais2.livejournal.com]

Frankly, it looks wonderful! I don't think I'd miss turkey a bit, with all that.
I'm going to experiment with that bleu chees course...yum!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I've never missed turkey--it was never one of my favorite meats.
When my family started going out to restaurants for thanksgiving, I always ordered the "freak meat." (Restaurants usually offer turkey, ham or sometimes seafood and "other") One year I got duck l'orange, one year it was cornish game hen in cherry sauce--if I was eating meat this year I would have tried the venison.

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

My last holdouts were crocodile and turtle meat. As I understood, the farming setups for such animals are much more natural (ie, a swamp) than the way most other food animals are raised.

I'm pretty sure you're lying and just don't want to admit you ate a slug.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Alligator (not that it matters)?
I've always wanted to try it, but then I realized that they are aquatic animals, and probably have that nasty fish taste that I don't like--ditto the turtle. Is that accurate? How did you have them prepared?

They grow slugs that big up your neck of the woods, but our little ones here wouldn't make much of a meal. You'd need a whole plate of our invasive leopard slugs (the 4" urban ones) to cook up some punk rock escargot.

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

Alligator, yes. I've had alligator sausage and fried alligator- usually tail- that is like chicken strips. Turtle I usually ate as chili. Alligator 'tastes like chicken' but more intense. Turtle is like a combination of beef and turkey.

I've seen two kinds of slugs around here. The urban slugs are the 4"leopards, which look a lot more like a real animal than the New England slugs I saw, that just look like moving snot. I have seen the yellow banana slugs- when my mom came out we saw this HUGE one one a huge tree- good tourism points. It was probably tenish inches. A fine meal if one was gonna go there.