Nixon - Happy herbivore holidays & gatherings : easy plant-based recipes for your healthiest celebrations and special occasions

Happy Herbivore Holidays & Gatherings provides you with simple recipes to share the joy of great-tasting, healthy cuisine with your friends and family. Its a go-to resource for those special occasions, or for anytime!

BRIAN WENDEL, FORKS OVER KNIVES

Somehow, Lindsay Nixon has done it again. Her food is healthy, familiar, easy, and delicious. Youll eat this food simply for the joy of eating, but will be bettering your health at the same time. Of all the prescriptions I give to my patients, Lindsays cookbooks are among the most important.

THOMAS M. CAMPBELL, MD, COAUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING THE CHINA STUDY
AND AUTHOR, THE CAMPBELL PLAN

Lindsay Nixons FIFTH cookbook answers everyones question: Whatever can I cook for holidays and special occasions that is delicious and still plant based and with no oil? Her satisfying and innovative recipes here will make each holiday and special occasion absolutely memorable.

CALDWELL B. ESSELSTYN, JR., MD AND ANN CRILE ESSELSTYN,
AUTHOR OF PREVENT AND REVERSE HEART DISEASE

Lindsay Nixon adds her newest cookbook, this one for your holiday planning of the big family feast. Its the day of bounty and feast with family and friends that we cherish, and this usually means consuming rich foods. But, in this case, we can walk away from the table with healthand what better way to enjoy life with family and friends. Give this book a try and you will see for yourself.

T. COLIN AND KAREN CAMPBELL, CENTER FOR NUTRITION STUDIES

Lindsay continues to hit it out of the plant-strong park with her latest edition of delicious, party happy, Happy Herbivore recipes.

RIP ESSELSTYN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
OF MY BEEF WITH MEAT

Lindsay Nixon and I had similar childhoods in ways that countwe both came from families where food was the focus of every celebration. We have both watched mothers and aunties and grandmothers spend all day in the kitchen preparing for every holiday and preparing every dish with love. Lindsay brings all that love and every joyful memory with her into this, her latest cookbook, Happy Herbivore Holidays & Gatherings, and better yet, she does it with delicious, healthy plant-based meals that we can all embrace.

DEL SROUFE, AUTHOR OF BETTER THAN VEGAN AND
FORKS OVER KNIVESTHE COOKBOOK

Lindsays newest book exceeds all of our expectations for creative holiday meals. Meals you make for your family and friends from Happy Herbivore Holidays & Gatherings will speak louder than words about the many reasons to eat healthy foods.

JOHN AND MARY MCDOUGALL, BESTSELLING AUTHORS
AND FOUNDERS OF THE MCDOUGALL PROGRAM

The Happy Herbivore Cookbook

Everyday Happy Herbivore

Happy Herbivore Abroad

Happy Herbivore Light & Lean

Happy Herbivore Guide to

Plant-Based Living (e-book only)

Copyright 2014 by Lindsay S. Nixon

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

Nutritional information for each recipe was computed using caloriecount.com. Each analysis provided is per serving. Unless otherwise noted, optional ingredients are not included, and when a recipe calls for multiple amounts, e.g., three to four garlic cloves, the lesser amount is computed. For nondairy milk, unsweetened almond milk was used in the calculation. Breads and buns are not included in the nutritional analysis (see packaging for that information). Sodium content is also not included because values are significantly different between brands and because the calculator tools have too much discrepancy with sodium values to provide a safe and reliable estimate.

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First e-book edition: November 2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nixon, Lindsay S., author.

Happy herbivore holidays & gatherings : easy plant-based recipes for your healthiest celebrations and special occasions / by Lindsay S. Nixon.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-940363-26-4 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-940363-65-3 (electronic) 1. Vegan cooking. 2.

Holiday cooking. 3. Entertaining. I. Title. II. Title: Happy herbivore holidays and gatherings.

TX837.N576 2014

641.5636dc23

2014009078

Editing by Debbie Harmsen, Kellie Coppola, and Vy Tran
Copyediting by Shannon Kelly
Proofreading by Kristin Vorce and Amy Zarkos
Indexing by Clive Pyne, Book Indexing Services
Text design by Faceout Studio
Text composition by Kit Sweeney
Printed by Versa Press
Cover design by Faceout Studio

Cover photo and photos on by Natala Constantine
Interior food photography by Jackie Sobon
Interior food prep work photography by Ira Mintz
Photos on (top) by Neely Roberts
Photo on by Ruby Ernst
Photo on by Kel Elwood Photography
Additional photography by Lindsay S. Nixon

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Break out your fancy pants! Happy Herbivore Holidays & Gatherings is an all-out celebration of food, family, friends, holidays, health, and lovela dolce vita!

Anytime my family comes together, a feast is sure to follow. Growing up, I loved holiday dinners crammed around my Aunt Carols extended table with my parents, grandparents, and all my aunts, uncles, and cousins. It looked a little like a scene from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but that was us: elbowing each other and arguing over who got the last meatball.

Perhaps what stayed with me the most was how much care and love my grandmother and Aunt Carol put into every dish. For them, cooking was an expression of their love. They would slave away all day, sometimes a few days in a row, preparing an elaborate celebratory meal big enough to feed our large family.

I still vividly remember waking up to the smell of meatballs at 7:00 a.m. (yes, 7:00 a.m.!) because my grandmother was already working on our Christmas dinner. To this day, my Aunt Carol still gets up at around 6:00 a.m. to start cooking on major holidays. In my family, food is love and cooking is an expression of that love!