Who’s excited for Christmas?! Me me me! If you don’t celebrate Christmas, you can be excited too…for traffic to clear up and people to stop talking about trees, elves, and Santa 
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Do you know what’s going to be on the menu for your holiday meal? Peter has all sorts of dishes up his sleeve and I’m sure Lo the Bro does as well. My foodie family can’t help but use Christmas as an excuse to pull out all the stops.
If you’re still meal planning for the big day or need something to bring to a gathering, below are some recipes to help you along. The theme of this week’s Soy Simple post is incorporating soy into holiday dishes. The recipes below either include soy or can be tweaked to include it.
Happy cooking, eating, celebrating, giving, and receiving!
Appetizers
BBQ Tofu. Stick toothpicks in them for a quick, nutritious appetizer!
Roasted soy nuts
Main Dishes and Side Dishes
Tofu Salad with colorful mini peppers
Black Eyed Pea Shrimp Salad made with shelled edamame (shelled!)
Mama Pea’s Shepherd’s Pie made with tofu and tempeh
Emily’s Sesame Kale and Tofu Salad
Emily’s Grilled Vegetable Tofu and Bulgar Salad
Jenna’s Red Thai Curry with Kabocha Squash made with tofu
Chelsey’s Savory Bok Choy Stir Fry with Tofu
Caroline’s Spicy-Sweet Corn & Edamame Salad
Dessert
Vegan Pumpkin Pecan Blondies can be made with soy milk and sub soy flour for half of all purpose flour
Mama Pea’s Funky Monkey Pie made with silken tofu
Drinks
Creamy Nog Latte made with soymilk
Breakfast
Caroline’s Tofu-Banana French Toast
Eggnog Cheesecake made with soymilk
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I made these when “Brad’s” mom was in town and she said she didn’t even realize that it wasn’t meat – great in my book, as they’re from the Midwest and eat meat in basically every meal! I thought they were yummy, too!!
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianmexicanrecipes/r/quicktofuench.htm
Ill be using soy for my main dish probably for tofu dippers on Christmas while the rest of my family has turkey!
I’ll be using soy to supplement or replace meat for some soups. Mmm mmm.
i am going to be making vegan cheesecake using silken tofu, which is soy
Adding soy by using soy milk for dessert items!
I’m planning on making a creamy dijon dressing using silken tofu, dijon, lemon juice, and honey.
i plan to incorporate soy into my holiday meal by substituting soy milk instead of fat free cow’s milk!
I use silken tofu in my smoothies every morning. Tofu in smoothies always make me feel a bit fuller faster and longer.
I’d use soy milk in baking.
I use soy milk when I make corn bread
I LOVE THIS MENU! I would love to have a christmas dinner/breakfast that incorporates those recipes! As for soy, I am using soy milk in some mashed sweet potatoes I am making….makes them so creamy and delish!!!
Being Asian, I’ll be eating lots of tofu over Christmas in mom’s home cooking!
I plan on using soy in a few cookie recipes!
I’m planning to serve eat Chinese food on Christmas per Jewish tradition. Of course that will involve lots of tofu!
I’m planning on making Happy Herbivore’s cheesecake, which includes silken tofu!
Tofu in hotpot is YUM!
I’m making a tofu dish for all the vegetarians in my family on Christmas
Ummm can I PLEASE come over to your house for dinner? haha everything sounds DELICIOUS!
I was planning to make a tofu cheesecake for Christmas dessert, but I think I will try Mama Pea’s Funky Monkey Pie!!
this sounds great! My favorite way is vanilla soy milk in oats!
I used soymilk when making christmas cookies yesterday!
Using soy milk instead of milk for the lactose folks!
I use soy milk everyday in my oatmeal, Christmas or not!
I’m asian, so soy beans for dessert!
i will offer soy milk as an alternative to cream
I am going to drink soy nog! And I am so excited about it.
I’m hoping to use soy nog in my coffee alllll day on Christmas day. lol.
I use soy as a substitute in lots of stuff, but this is one of my favorite recipes – Tofu Vegetarian Pot Pie. http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/05/02/kid-friendly-recipes-organic-tofu-vegetarian-pot-pie/
We always use soy in anything that requires milk like pumpkin pie or sweet potato casserole!
Soy milk!
I like to make silken tofu in dips!
I really don’t have much experience with soy, so I’d probably incorporate something simple like soy beans into a dish!
tofu pumpkin pie is the best!!! With a glass of icy sog-nog too.
While most of the holiday cooking is left up to the elders of my family, I have taken it upon myself to make CHristmas morning Eggnog pancakes using Silk egg nog
Although I do not celebrate X-mas, my family gets together and eats all day
I always make my famous spicy curry tofu salad- YUM!
I plan to use soymilk for some of my baking, as well as eating some of the granola I made!
I like to use it in my Christmas morning pancakes!
I like to use silken tofu in smoothies to add protein, especially after workouts! Tyler Florence’s version is the one I base most of mine on: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/silken-smoothie-recipe/index.html
I love Mama Peas Funky Monkey Pie as well as Chocolate Covered Katies Chocolate Fudge Pie!
Tofu works for everything, honestly! I’ve already used it to make pesto (yesterday) and baked tofu, and tomorrow it will be time to make tofu truffles (nod and smile and pretend not to hear if one of the receivers asks what’s in it).
I am allergic to milk so I am always using soy milk as a milk replacer! Most recently in baking, I used it to make cinnamon rolls
I plan to get my hands on some dark chocolate soy milk.. YUMMM!
Since we have three lactose-intolerant people in my house, we are possibly planning on using soy eggnog with our french toast
I cant drink milk or regular egg nog so ill be drinking soy nog this wknd!
I’ve made some delicious vegan cookies by using soy milk. I’m also loving soynog – and I’m not even an eggnog fan!
Definitely used Soy Nog in my gluten & dairy-free holiday Eggnog Spice Granola!
http://www.sayitwithsprinkles.com/gluten-dairy-free-eggnog-spice-granola/
I will use soymilk for smoothies and making tofu hamburger
I’m spending Christmas at Fort Lauderdale this year so I will be making a tropical shrimp and edamame salad with red peppers, corn and lemon dressing. Can’t wait!!
I always have jummy soy milk for all my visiting nieces and nephews!
http://silksoymilk.com/recipes/banana-cream-pie
This banana cream pie sounds delicious!
thanks Allie for holding this wonderful giveaway! for xmas dinner this year, I am making banh xeo, but instead of adding shrimp to the batter I am going to cook up a tofu/water chestnut stir fry to put inside of it! love soy!
I’ll be making my very own soy milk!
I love using soy milk for baking or just straight up in my cereal! It gives a nice flavor and a lot of protein
I’d probably use it in my hot chocolate milk with marshmallows!
I will use soymilk instead of pasturized in my baking due to my daughters allergy! Thanks for the chance to win!! What a lovely giveaway
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This isn’t really a recipe, but I ALWAYS use soy milk in place of regular milk in recipes. My mom and sister are both lactose intolerant, and I just prefer soymilk (especially over their skim lactaid milk…tastes like water to me!)
We will have these blueberry muffins for breakfast:
Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups flour (may be all or part whole wheat)
1/2 cup Soy Flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup Soy Milk
2 egg whites
2 Tbs Soy Oil
1 cup blueberries
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375°.
In a large mixing bowl stir together the flour, soy flour, baking powder, brown sugar and cinnamon.
In a small mixing bowl whisk together the Soy Milk, egg whites and oil. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix just until blended.
Stir the blueberries into the batter (if using frozen berries, do not thaw first). Divide batter among 12 nonstick or lightly greased muffin cups. Bake at 375° for 15 to 18 minutes, until golden and center tests done. Remove from pan immediately.
These tacos are a hands down favorite in our house. They’re full of protein and DELICIOUS, exactly what you want after tough workout.
http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/vegetarian-tacos-spinach-corn-goat-cheese-00000000029612/index.html
I love making Mexican dishes using Trader Joe’s soy chorizo instead of meat.
I plan to replace regular milk for soy when I bake some bread this weekend!
I’ll be using soy milk in my baking this weekend!
During this time of year, it’s sooo important to eat a healthy breakfast to start you on the right foot for the day. That’s why I make my morning smoothies with soy milk (along with a banana, cashews, honey, and vanilla). OH this is so delicious I could live off of this!
I looove my mom’s soondubu jigae, a Korean dish that includes silkentofu. Here’s a link to a recipe from Maangchi, she has great step-by-step instructions! http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/soondubu-jjigae
I plan on having a tofu stir fry with soy sauce and soy ice cream for dessert
Soymilk in my Hot cocoa!
I plan to use soy milk in my cookies!
I’m going to use soy milk when I bake some cookies this weekend!
I plan on having some delicious baked tofu with sweet potatoes and carrots for my holiday meal instead of the ham/prime rib that my family is serving since I’m a vegetarian.
Tofu chocolate pudding or smoothies!!!!