VegCooking has a great selection of vegan recipes with fabulous photographs to make you want to try every recipe they throw at you. The recipes are categorized by I love the thought of adding cranberries to green beans. I found it ironic that the side dish was recommended to go with hazelnut and rosemary encrusted seitan, which was the entree that sounded the most tempting to me. Speaking of which, I had to Google seitan because even though I've eaten it before, I didn't really understand what it was. The most intriguing part of the "wheat gluten" product is its texture, which is said to be stringy and more like real meat.

A popular vegan addition to a holiday meal is pate. Bryanna Clark Grogan, a vegan blogger in Canada referenced this on her website. Earlier this month, NPR posted a story pointing out that pate's are simple to make even though they make a big impression. The article ends with a vegetarian recipe for a pate with mushrooms and cashews. For people efficient at wisely replacing meat with acceptable substitutes, the other pate recipes may be of interest as well.