Vegan Autumn Salad

Vegan Autumn Salad is my go-to salad for Thanksgiving or any good autumnal meal. Easy, delicious, and done in 5 minutes! I make a variation of this salad every Thanksgiving. This year, I decided to add hemp seeds and pumpkin seeds instead of candied pecans. It was amazing! I always make my homemade honey mustard balsamic dressing, too. The key is good balsamic! I’ll be making it again for this upcoming Thanksgiving.

Typically, every Christmas, whoever’s home my family goes to orders matching pajamas for everyone in the family to wear on Christmas Day. This year, since we will not be together due to the virus (most of us live in different states), it will just be me, the kiddo, and my sister. We’ve decided to do the pj tradition early. Since I plan on eating and drinking too much, we were both sold on this idea. It’s the simple changes during COVID that sometimes makes things a tad bit happier. We’re going for onesies this year. Amen to that! Nothing to push on the growing tire around the waste when we chow down.

What are you guys doing this year for your vegan T-day celebration? Or, if you’re just here looking for recipes for a vegan attending your soirée, what are you guys doing, too? Anyone have any special ideas to make the day more exciting? Something to compensate for the lack of family/friends? Please, post and let me know!

Gobble, gobble, friends. Almost T-day! I am posting a vegan sausage stuffing recipe in two days so stay tuned! Enjoy the Vegan Autumn Salad!

As always, here is my annual favorite Thanksgiving video…

Vegan Autumn Salad

Serves approximately 5

Ingredients –

5 ounces spinach (you can replace with mesculin greens)

1 1/2 C sliced cumcumbers

3/4 C sliced carrots

1/4 C roughly sliced red onion

3/4 diced apple (I used Honey Crisp)

Optional – 1/4 C vegan Violife Feta Cheese

1/4 raw pumpkin seeds

2 Tbl hemp seeds

For the honey mustard balsamic dressing –

2 Tbl GOOD balsamic

2 tsp dijon mustard

2 tsp honey (3 if you like it sweeter)

1/4 C olive oil

Salt & pepper to taste

Mix well and done!

Directions –

Mix all of the salad ingredients together

Pour the dressing evenly over the salad and then toss well

Done!

*Feel free to add some walnuts to this salad, too

Wine pairing-

White – Vermentino, Grüner

Sparkling – Blanc de Blanc