Vegetarian Thanksgiving dish when traveling

[Anonymous]

Pasta or a microwave rice pack with olive oil and frozen vegetables.

[Anonymous]

Get a cooler and put in:
- tub of spinach or spinach/mixed greens
- a few pears/apples
- dried cranberries
- a cheese of your choice (thick shards of parm or goat cheese)
- a baggie of toasted pecans
- homemade dressing, already made and tightly sealed (maple syrup, dijon, cider vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, a little lemon juice)

Bring a big bowl, salad tongs, a small cutting board, and a knife. Slice fruit, shake dressing, mix and toss salad at the party. You can do this anywhere with 2 sf of space, and if you pack a few paper towels and a baggie just throw the knife and cutting board back in your cooler and take it back to the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a cooler and put in:
- tub of spinach or spinach/mixed greens
- a few pears/apples
- dried cranberries
- a cheese of your choice (thick shards of parm or goat cheese)
- a baggie of toasted pecans
- homemade dressing, already made and tightly sealed (maple syrup, dijon, cider vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, a little lemon juice)

Bring a big bowl, salad tongs, a small cutting board, and a knife. Slice fruit, shake dressing, mix and toss salad at the party. You can do this anywhere with 2 sf of space, and if you pack a few paper towels and a baggie just throw the knife and cutting board back in your cooler and take it back to the car.

Oh crap sorry you're flying.

I mean, just order something to be delivered I guess. Or bring the cooler with you sans knife and freeze the dressing!

[Anonymous]

Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

[Anonymous]

Sorry you have to deal with this, OP. I'm a meat lover but would 100% leave a portion of the sides meat-free if I knew a vegetarian would be attending. If your hosts can't do that.... I'd bring some Seeds of Change packets and a ziploc of cooked/frozen acorn squash. It'll start to thaw on the plane but that's ok. Layer the squash and the grain packet with some parmesan in a square foil dish for a kind of un-stuffed "stuffed squash" casserole. It'll only need a few minutes in the oven and can cook alongside their rolls or whatever, you won't need the oven to yourself. If the host can't handle leaving a few dishes meat-free or meat-optional, hopefully they can at least let you use a corner of the oven for 15 minutes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

So now it's a main dish and not a side dish like in your op?
And now it's something "easily" made in someone else's house in the throes of Thanksgiving prep/serve?

And you don't want to be dramatic or inconvenient?

....honestly, bring yourself a can of vegetable soup at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

NO. You are not expected to do something. For God's sakes. Quit being a martyr. If these people are expecting you to produce anything when you're flying, arriving just in time and not in your own house, then they're rude. And you should stop expecting to take up space in someone else's kitchen.

Bring a hostess gift the household can use after Thanksgiving, if you absolutely must.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

Honestly I would just pick up something at the grocery store, in the ready-made section. If you have a Costco membership, you can get a huge tray of Mac and cheese that everyone else can eat as well.

[Anonymous]

I would hate it, OP, if you were to arrive and ask to use my kitchen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

So now it's a main dish and not a side dish like in your op?
And now it's something "easily" made in someone else's house in the throes of Thanksgiving prep/serve?

And you don't want to be dramatic or inconvenient?

....honestly, bring yourself a can of vegetable soup at this point.

The OP said a substantial additional main dish.

Keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

Honestly I would just pick up something at the grocery store, in the ready-made section. If you have a Costco membership, you can get a huge tray of Mac and cheese that everyone else can eat as well.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

Honestly I would just pick up something at the grocery store, in the ready-made section. If you have a Costco membership, you can get a huge tray of Mac and cheese that everyone else can eat as well.

No ^^ the costco mac n cheese takes 45+ min in the oven at like 400 degrees.

As a host, I'd be annoyed that a guest brought that and hog up my oven when I'm trying to juggle turkey cooking at the same time (and a lower temp than Costco mac n cheese) and other sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I would hate it, OP, if you were to arrive and ask to use my kitchen.

I wouldn't mind at all. I'd probably ask OP to help out making other things as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

Honestly I would just pick up something at the grocery store, in the ready-made section. If you have a Costco membership, you can get a huge tray of Mac and cheese that everyone else can eat as well.

No ^^ the costco mac n cheese takes 45+ min in the oven at like 400 degrees.

As a host, I'd be annoyed that a guest brought that and hog up my oven when I'm trying to juggle turkey cooking at the same time (and a lower temp than Costco mac n cheese) and other sides.

OMG. It's Mac and cheese. It can be heated at any temp. You can even scoop some out and heat it in a microwave. It's like you people don't know how to live at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here - not at all trying to create drama. Just trying to come up with a plan that won’t cause anyone else inconvenience. I do usually bring a dish to serve for everyone - I think bringing just one portion of something for myself is even more awkward. Of course I can just eat a roll or whatever and survive, but also then draws attention and makes others feel awkward. I don’t expect them to bend over backwards at all. I’m looking to bring something with few ingredients, that can be cooked quickly, so I can arrive not-empty-handed and be a good guest AND have something decent to eat.

I should have just asked for a vegetarian thanksgiving main dish that could made quickly with few ingredients. But I thought more context would be helpful.

Honestly I would just pick up something at the grocery store, in the ready-made section. If you have a Costco membership, you can get a huge tray of Mac and cheese that everyone else can eat as well.

No ^^ the costco mac n cheese takes 45+ min in the oven at like 400 degrees.

As a host, I'd be annoyed that a guest brought that and hog up my oven when I'm trying to juggle turkey cooking at the same time (and a lower temp than Costco mac n cheese) and other sides.

OMG. It's Mac and cheese. It can be heated at any temp. You can even scoop some out and heat it in a microwave. It's like you people don't know how to live at all.

Not the Costco brand. It's a big thick tray and there's a reason the directions tell you to heat for 45+ min at 400 degrees.