An early Thanksgiving

As some of you know, Daiku teaches philosophy at a small liberal arts college. For the last 2 weeks, his ethics classes have been doing a unit on animal rights. Happily, the discussion seems to have had an effect on some of the students, because they decided to cook a vegan Thanksgiving feast in their residence hall on Sunday and invited us along! We were happy to go and contribute dessert. All in all, the meal was a success. About 12-15 students showed up to enjoy the food, and everyone loved everything and was surprised that it was all vegan. Hopefully, this was a positive experience that left its mark on some students.

I want to apologize because I didn't have a chance to take really good pictures of the meal, the lighting in the dorm lounge wasn't that great.

Here's what the students cooked:

2 different kinds of veggie and tofu stirfry with rice
stuffing from scratch
broccoli (so delicious steamed with garlic & lemon juice instead of water--I just learned a new technique!)
salad with tangerines and almonds (with a yummy ginger dressing)
bread
tea and coffee

We were so impressed that you can do this much cooking in a dorm!

We contributed:

cupcakes (golden vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting and chocolate stout cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World)
apple blueberry crisp (adapted from this apple cherry crisp recipe from Whole Foods)
fresh cranberry sauce (in case some people had never tried real fresh cranberries!)

We are very thankful to the students for taking the initiative and cooking up a vegan Thanksgiving feast.

Here are some photos: