Some Folks Excel At Best Vegetarian Recipes And some Do not - Which One Are You?

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The Potluck as Cultural

You need to know that potlucks (or "fellowship meals") are to Adventist Christians what a catwalk is to the fashionista. That is the place where we collect to catch up on our lives, to mingle with guests (Adventist Christians from elsewhere) and company (former- or non-Adventists who either dropped in on their very own or were introduced as a visitor of a member), and to nosh down on nice vegetarian and/or vegan chow. After the meal folks depart to a nature walk, an afternoon service in a nursing dwelling, a video about witnessing or a personal ministries committee meeting, and many others.

About 35% of Adventists worldwide are reported to be vegetarian, some consuming eggs and/or dairy merchandise (ovo-lacto vegetarian) and some a more strict vegan (no animal flesh or by-merchandise). While 35% of Adventists DO apply vegetarianism in some type, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of Adventist Christians (65%) don't. I don't have figures, however in the present day there are also a lot of advocates of the "excessive raw vegan" way of life. However, a Sabbath neighborhood meal is generally at the least ovo-lacto vegetarian in many of the churches we've got visited. The Adventist Church perceives health and wellness as a positive assist for spiritual growth and along with not consuming "unclean" foods as described within the Bible (i.e., pork, other mammals who don't chew their cuds or have break up hooves, birds and animals of prey, fish without scales) a vegetarian/vegan food plan is promoted as optimally wholesome.

The Potluck Recipes

The potluck (or fellowship meal) itself is an important part of Adventist "culture." We've got eaten at Adventist potlucks Coast to Coast in Canada, in continental United States, Philippines and Hong Kong. While there have been slight cultural or conventional variations (in Philippines that they had fish on their potluck table) every one of the potlucks was comparable in that there was at the least one baked bean dish, one vegetarian casserole, a number of salads and an abundance of dazzling desserts.

I have also included one item by request (See Corn Dogs with Pathfinders' Dip) that won't flip up in fellowship dinners, but was a favorite among some at Pathfinder camp-outs and Adventist academy boarding school lunches.

I hope you get pleasure from the following traditional recipes:

The Haystack Salad

The simple Corn Muffin

Simple Corn Muffins

1/4 C. shredded coconut

1 1/2 C. cornmeal

1/4 C. whole wheat or gluten-free flour mix

1 1/eight C. Water

1/2 tsp. Celtic Sea Salt (or much less)

Mix all elements. Let stand 20 to half-hour earlier than pouring into both 6 muffin holders or a small cake pan. Yield: 6 small muffins or squares.

Millet or Quinoa Patties

four C. cooked Millet or Quinoa

1/4 C. Nutbutter (not peanut)

2 t. Onion Powder

1 t. Celery Salt

Form into patties and brown within the oven at 350F. for about 35 minutes. Serves 6.

Wheat Gluten Meat, or Seitan

Vegan Turkey Recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter Potlucks

Here are three vegan turkey recipes that can be made up and taken to particular events potlucks during the Seventh-day Adventist Church calendar, or loved by a gathering of family or associates. They are all on one web page right here on Hubpages. Bon Appetit! One recipe is made with wheat gluten (seitan), another with tofu and a third is a raw vegan almond-vegetable recipe.

Vegan Baked Beans

Pathfinders Corn Dog Dip Recipe

This corn canine dip recipe was requested by a reader who remembered it as a part of her eating regimen at an Adventist academy. I think about that it's also a favorite at Pathfinders camp-outs (Pathfinders are a bunch like Scouts). The recipe entails blending together:

2 oz. jar pimentos

1 cup mayonnaise*

4 inexperienced onions

1/four massive purple bell pepper

1 pint cottage cheese*

three tablespoons dill pickle relish

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce*

A dash of every of the next: garlic powder, onion powder, and cayenne.

Use to dip veggie corn dogs, or placed on burgers and common veggie hotdogs.

Store in a mason jar in the fridge.

*Please be aware that this is not a vegan recipe.

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4 days in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

C. E. Clark,

Nice to listen to about your constructive impressions of Adventist food and Adventist cooks you've gotten recognized. I hope you get pleasure from attempting some more vegan recipes-- there are much more round lately than there were even 10 years ago. Thanks additionally for promoting the article on social media.

C E Clark

5 days ago from North Texas

Going to must strive a couple of these recipes. I joined the Adventist Church about 40 years ago and as Evangelist Millet stated, Adventists are the best cooks on the planet. The potlucks were all the time scrumptious. Now, for some 35 years, I'm what is known as a "back slider." :)

I have some recipes from back then that have been very talked-about with non vegetarians after i made them, because they actually do appear like meat and somebody who does not know in a different way often imagines that they actually are meat.

Always loved the potlucks during my membership. Thank you for sharing your recipes. Going to publish this article on AH & FB.

Eight weeks in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

Hello Dell,

Thanks for dropping by and bringing up the query of whether the oatmeal in a recipe for oatmeal-mushroom vegan steaks could be cooked or uncooked. groats on this very tasty recipe. I found a full recipe listing the uncooked oatmeal ingredient by seaching for oatmeal-mushroom steaks. My experience has been to use uncooked "quick" oat "flakes" vs. All the best!

Dell

I've come across a recipe I might love to try. I hope you will have the answers to this :-). And whether or not you do or not I thank you. I have eaten it earlier than but I'd love to make it myself. It is named Donna's mushroom steaks recipe. It's made with oatmeal and my question is do you cook the oatmeal first or not?

My pleasure Glo-- I appreciate the data from a time when I was not part of the Adventist foodie culture! All the best, Cynthia

Gloria Lynn Najera

Good morning Cynthia,

I think this may be it! ! Thank you for posting the recipe. As my Mom labored at Loma Linda Foods in the 80's she was the one who invented the Vege Chorizo and Taco Filling. Thanks once more. Glo I'm attempting to get back to my roots by getting ready extra vegetarian meals that I get pleasure from for my family. It has been a very very long time getting ready vege recipes for my household.

2 months in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

Hello again Glo,

Please notice that I added a recipe for Pathfinders Corn Dog Dip to the bottom of the article. I hope that is what you were searching for!

glolynn

2 months in the past

Just got here across your post and hopefully you or somebody can assist me find a recipe.

Back within the 80's I went to highschool at an academy, we had "pronto pups" aka corn canine, and there was a sauce, yellow in color (turmeric?) that we dipped the pp into. Thanks in advance. Glo I'm in search of that sauce. I think it had mayo and relish in it... hope I can get it!

That's splendid Charlotte! I just accomplished an update on my previous article for Vegan Turkey Recipes with the wheat gluten recipe first of the 3 (one is tofu and one is raw vegan). I hope you have fun checking out the recipes on here. Anyhow, thank you for coming by and leaving your nice message! The wheat gluten recipe is a fast and simplified model of the outdated-time Adventist gluten recipes. God bless!

Charlotte

I was additionally brought up SDA, and likewise cherished the potlucks. But I by no means realized to cook, so all my favorite recipes had been misplaced when my mother and father and different feminine relatives passed away. I am trying forward to extra recipes. So here I'm, a grandmother, searching for good vegitarian recipes. I am so glad I discovered your page! I have by no means eaten flesh. Thank you.

5 months ago from Vancouver Island, Canada

Nice of you to drop by Sarah... I really like SDA vegetarian potlucks as nicely, and the fellowship that goes with the eating. Should you come again in about every week there might be one of those recipes on here. Within the meantime, thanks to your sort phrases, and God bless you! I'm at the moment getting ready an article on gluten meat recipes which can be still turning up at the potlucks.

Sarah

5 months in the past

I grew up SDA and was vegetarian till I used to be 12. Potluck was my favorite a part of church, I used to be luck to be a member of the Norfolk SDA church, we had numerous military members and was was a filipino Navy cook, oh I can still remember the yummy meals!!

Eleven months in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

Hi Emma-- Welcome! The recipes above are a small sample of a lot of my other vegan recipes right here on Hubpages that you could find listed at my profile web page (click on on "Cynthia" above the article). I have also despatched you an email with other prompt sources for vegan recipes. I hope that your daughter finds the recipes useful. Thanks for reaching out!

Emma Steiger Johnston

eleven months ago

I simply joined Hub to get your Vegetarian Recipes. My daughter was just informed by her Doctor that she has heart disease. Are you able to tell me how to obtain them, Please.

Thanks so much, Emma

22 months ago from Vancouver Island, Canada

Hi Pamela-- Happy to help you out with some new concepts for vegan fare! Congratulztions, too, for following a vegan lifestle for 17+ years! To continued wisdom and health, Cynthia

Pamella Spence

22 months in the past

Good night. I've been vegan since 2001. Sometimes I run out of ideas for a menu. Thanks for this hyperlink which has given me new ideas.

thank you to your candy feedback James A. Watkins... the recipes listed here are a reasonably paltry illustration of the breadth of international vegan enter there is within this group... I love traveling to churches in numerous parts of the world and eating from the variety (though there does usually appear to be quite a lot of American dishes :p).

James A Watkins

7 years ago from Chicago

Thanks for these excellent recipes and this wonderfully made Hub. :-) I really like the Church and the individuals in it. I used to be as soon as a SDA. In Orlando, Florida Hospital is SDA and its cafeteria does not serve meat but the food is so good that enterprise individuals go there for lunch!

7 years in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

thank you movielardatadare- I recognize your form comments! Hope you do strive a bit of cooking as a result of there is great potential pleasure in creating a yummy, healthy meal for yourself and others! All the perfect, Cynthia

movielardatadare

7 years in the past from Texas

Very informative piece. Refreshing to read about SDA recipes. Makes me need to start out cooking a bit of bit myself.

Yes, Stephanie, would seem so! I suppose the 'vegan' label is in reference to the truth that in the outdated days people related PORK with Baked Beans (at least the canned variety) as in 'pork 'n' beans'... but you are right that it's a little bit foolish to make that distinction lately!

stephanie

I did not know you had to make modifications to make it "vegan" but, hey ;)

thanks Mary-- I hope that "deceivingly" wholesome is a good factor for a Church potluck hehehe... that is a reasonably basic line-up however there are tons of of variations of the above and lots of rich desserts that do not even pretend to be healthy. Good for you! :-) ~Cynthia I'm pleased with you for choosing to go more 'plant-primarily based'-- it is a healthy transfer, but modifications are always a problem. I have never included them right here.

Mary Dicerni

9 years in the past

Useful, delicious and multi function place. The recipes are also deceivingly wholesome. I have vegetarian grandchildren, and am virtually there too. What an exquisite pot luck.

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Cynthia Zirkwitz

9 years in the past from Vancouver Island, Canada

thanks Angel.. can't really beat useful and delicious! lol

Angel Ward

9 years in the past from Galveston, TX

this sounds very helpful, and scrumptious!