VeggieDag Thursday: Thanksgiving ideas, and more.

VeggieDag is an occasional Thursday post on an animal-free diet and its issues.

It's a pre-Thanksgiving VeggieDag Thursday, with links to recipes and other news.

• At Thanksgiving, you don't have to choose between beer and wine. Via Serious Eats.
  
  
• For Thanksgiving, no turkey, but one big stuffed squash (hold the chicken stock). Via Washington Post.
  
  
• (Almost) the best Brussels sprouts recipe ever. (Substitute olive oil, smoked paprika for bacon fat.) Via Washington Post.
  
  
  
  Vegetarian Pot Pie, from Rustico Restaurant, in Alexandria, Virginia.
  
• Savory bread puddings, such as Mushroom, Leek and Parmesan Bread Pudding. Recipes include eggs and dairy. Via Food & Wine.
  
  
• For Thanksgiving: Voluptuous Pumpkin Pie. Vegan recipe via Post Punk Kitchen.
  
  
• Linguine With Cauliflower Pesto. Recipe via Smitten Kitchen.
  
  
• Butternut Squash Kashmiri Chili. Recipe via Washington Post.
  
  
• Junk food makeover: Tater Tots recipe, via Bon Appétit.
  
  
• The single-fry method for 'double-frying' French fries. Via Yahoo Shine.
  
  
• The 24 best French fries in the U.S. Via Travel and Leisure.
  
  
• Farmland preservation efforts in Maryland face pressures and defections from population density increases. Via B'more Green.
  
  
• Raising infants and kids on a vegan diet. Via The Vegan R.D.
  
  
• Bhut Jolokia peppers: one million Scoville units, and counting. Via Washington Post.
  
  
• American Cheese Society 2012 Winners include Maryland's Firefly, Virginia's Everona. Via Cheese and Champagne.
  
  
• Galaxy Hut —a good beer pub in Arlington, Virginia— goes with a 100% vegetarian / vegan food menu.

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• Why the name VeggieDag? Here.
• Prior VeggieDag Thursday posts: here.
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• Logo by Tom Lee, past beer columnist for Baltimore Examiner.
• Suggestions and submissions from chefs and homecooks: welcomed!