A warming soup with an appealing golden color. The natural sweetness of the sweet potatoes gives this soup a surprising flavor twist.

Squash, corn, and sweet potato combine to make a hearty chowder that’s especially perfect for fall. Though this admittedly involves a bit of preparation, none of it is difficult.

In this luscious cool-weather soup, onions, garlic, winter squash, and silken tofu are all enveloped in the familiar flavor of potatoes, making this a wonderful vehicle for lots of nourishing ingredients.

Squash tastes great paired with pear. If you like, you can add a pinch of cayenne for contrast.

A satisfying soup that gets its golden-orange color from sweet potatoes and carrots, this will warm you throughout the fall and winter.

This moist vegan cornbread, spiked with green chile peppers, is an ideal companion to bean dishes, stews, and other hearty fare.

These simple vegan sweet potato biscuits are so moist and flaky, they practically melt in your mouth.

Once you’ve got the butternut squash baked, this autumnal soup comes together quickly. The mellow flavors of coconut milk, kale, and red onions synergies delectably with the squash, and look gorgeous together as well.

This hearty soup is packed with flavor from sugar pumpkin, fresh veggies, and protein-packed beans. It's delicious, warm, comforting, and perfect for Fall!

This satisfying dish of butternut squash stuffed with whole grain (or gluten-free) bread, wild rice, and onions makes a handsome centerpiece for the holiday meal.

The flavor and texture are excellent in this hearty vegan and gluten-free lasagna, everything you’d want from a meal on a cold winter day.

Brown rice and pecans are a tasty team in this thyme-scented stuffed squash recipe.

This simple and comforting casserole will remind you of macaroni and cheese. There’s no cheese here, just a delectable combo of smooth butternut squash, nutritional yeast, and silken tofu.

This mild mashed potato-stuffed squash makes a great alternative main dish for Thanksgiving, but it's any time during fall harvest season or as a winter comfort food.

This hearty Three Sisters Stew is loaded with tender squash, protein-packed beans, and fresh corn. It's delicious comfort food, and makes a perfect vegan main dish for Thanksgiving too!

Served in its shell, this simple preparation of spaghetti squash makes a dramatic presentation as part of an everyday winter meal.

This layered casserole of cooked cornmeal topping a tasty bean chili is adapted from a Native American recipe.

This vegan shepherd's pie recipe, richly flavored with lentils and mushrooms, can only be described as a deep dish of comfort.

A dairy- and tomato-free lasagna featuring a creamy silken tofu sauce, this recipe highlights sweet potatoes and mixed mushrooms. It’s offbeat and luscious.

With the addition of sweet potatoes, this easy chili is filling and warming. Baking or microwaving the sweet potatoes ahead of time cuts down on both the preparation as well as the cooking time.

This southwestern-style casserole makes for a nice change-of-pace holiday main dish, but this is also easy enough to make for weeknight meals.

These tender roasted delicata squash boats are stuffed with a sweet and savory blend of herbed wild rice, lentils and cranberries. Be sure to make extra so the non-vegetarians can enjoy some too!

Everyone loves the nostalgic classic, vegetable pot pie, whether for everyday meals or as a crowd-pleasing vegan option for Thanksgiving or Christmas menus.

This delectable stew of tempeh, sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts is a lovely main dish option for the Thanksgiving table, though you can make it any time you crave something hearty and warming.

This Vegan Thanksgiving Torte combines all your favorite Thanksgiving varieties of classic textures and savory flavors which come from its combination of wild rice, mushrooms, nuts, and sage.

This vegan sweet potato variation on shepherd's pie makes a festive holiday centerpiece, especially for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

You need not wait until Thanksgiving to enjoy this vegan stuffing, made hearty with regular and sweet potato and whole-grain bread. That said, it is most welcome at the holiday table!

Everyone loves stuffing! The sweet apple and red onion contrast nicely with the herbal notes. Of course, you can use a gluten-free bread if need be.

Cornbread is only as good as it is fresh; and when it’s past that point, I like to make this simple, comforting stuffing.

This hearty, casserole-type bread and potato stuffing need not be stuffed into anything; simply enjoy it as a side dish.

For your Thanksgiving or Christmas celebrations, please the vegans and everyone else with this basic yet completely delectable bread stuffing.

Wild rice adds a wonderful texture to this stuffing, and the slight sweetness of dried cranberries lends a delicious flavor.

Vegetable bread pudding provides a tasty way to use up the last few pieces of bread in a loaf and vegetables that are getting a bit tired.

Jicama is a slightly sweet crunchy root vegetable and adds a great flavor to autumn coleslaws. It's a lovely addition to the vegan Thanksgiving table.

Waldorf salad is a crunchy mixture of apples, walnuts and celery. A perfect side dish for your Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.

This colorful and crunchy salad is a perfect way to dress up a fall harvest or holiday meal. It's the perfect light salad for a lovely vegan Thanksgiving dinner menu!

Here's a colorful and crunchy salad featuring Jerusalem artichokes. In season in the late fall, they are quite fitting to serve as part of Thanksgiving dinner.

This hearty wild rice salad, embellished with corn, black-eyed peas, veggies, and herbs, is an invigorating melange of flavors, textures and colors. 

Massaged kale leaves topped with roasted delicata squash, pomegranate seeds, wheat berries, and pepitas. Perfect for Thanksgiving!

This delicious coleslaw is welcome as an everyday salad, yet is festive enough to serve with holiday meals.

Even in its simplest form this massaged kale salad is luscious and festive, and just as welcome for everyday as well as holiday meals.

If you want an easy way to add some greens to your holiday table, this salad is for you.

This simple, colorful salad of mixed greens with crunchy carrots, tart apples, and pickled beets harmonizes well with everyday or holiday meals and adds little hands-on prep time.

This quinoa salad is crunchy and festive, brimming with anise-flavored fennel and toasted walnuts. Dried cranberries and orange juice add a touch of sweetness.

This gorgeous salad of spinach, red cabbage, and oranges adds a burst of color and nutrition to everyday meals and is equally welcome as part of winter holiday meals.

This salad has flavors that speak eloquently of autumn —pears, walnuts, bitter greens and cranberries.

A slightly sweet glaze of wine gives Brussels sprouts a deep, rich flavor. This is an easy and tasty way to serve Brussels sprouts for everyday meals or a festive Thanksgiving meal.

Halves of Brussels sprouts look pretty mingled with any variety of chard, and they taste wonderful together, too.

Serving Brussels sprouts atop a savory wild rice dish creates a stunning entrée. And this one is made incendiary with plenty of Sriracha sauce.

A cheering fall and winter recipe, this medley of sweet potatoes and apples makes a great side dish for Thanksgiving dinner.

Silken Tofu or White Bean Scalloped Potatoes

A creamy and delicious sweet potato casserole topped with a pecan and brown sugar crumble. This sweet potato casserole is vegan, dairy free, gluten free, and the perfect side dish for the holidays.

Maple syrup and tarragon are wonderful enhancements for the flavor of sweet potatoes. It's an especially delicious addition to the Thanksgiving meal.

Here's a lightened version of the American holiday classic, candied yams, featuring sweet potatoes sweetened with orange juice and gently spiced with cinnamon

These extra-luscious mashed potatoes and gravy are a welcome addition for both vegan Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner menus.

This quinoa and kale pilaf makes a great everyday dish, or, with the addition of a cup or two of beans can make it plentiful entree for the winter holiday table.

You can make this festive roasted sweet potato dish with yams or sweet potatoes or a combination of both.

These Rosemary Roasted Carrots are simple, healthy, and delicious. Fresh carrots are tossed with olive oil and rosemary, and roasted to perfection. Yum!

This colorful kale and fennel salad is packed with delicious flavor from dried cranberries, toasted walnuts, and a homemade sherry dressing. It's simple to make and vegan-friendly too.

Scalloped corn is a comforting casserole that features this all-American veggie topped with tasty bread crumbs.

The texture of this Southern-style dish is more like creamed corn meets quiche than that of dessert pudding. The outer layer is just firm enough so that you can cut into it like a quiche.

Slow-baking onions gives them a mellow sweetness. This is good with naturally sweet Vidalia onions or red onions, but ordinary yellow onions will do just as well.

I wanted a little bit of everything in here; crunch, sweetness, cheesiness, and something that can be prepared ahead of time and thrown together later. I

Green bean casserole is a winter holiday favorite, especially for Thanksgiving. Here’s an updated, veganized, and healthy version of this comfort food favorite.

Here is a simple to make, enticing change-of-pace from ordinary preparations of Brussels sprouts. It's a perfect addition to a vegan Thanksgiving dinner menu.

Salty olives and perfectly cooked Brussels sprouts, with their delicate layers and caramelized outer leaves, make this a totally satisfying dish that isn’t exactly run–of–the–mill.

If you like mushrooms, you’ll enjoy this simple vegan gravy, which is great over seitan, tofu, brown rice or other cooked grains, veggie burgers, and best of all, mashed or smashed potatoes.

This cranberry and apple relish adds vivid color to fall harvest meals, and is a nice change of pace from jellied cranberry sauces for Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday meals.

If your only experience with cranberries has been in sweet, jelled sauces, this spicy cranberry and apple chutney will provide a welcome change of pace for your grown-up palate!

Include this wonderful sweet-tart cranberry orange sauce at your next Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving isn't the same without pumpkin pie. But if you're looking for something different and delicious that your guests willl go crazy over, you've found it.

Here’s a vegan cheesecake-like version of pumpkin pie that offers a subtle chocolate twist with each bite.

This homemade vegan pumpkin pie is made 100% from scratch - and it's way easier than you think! It's rich, creamy, totally delicious, and perfect for Thanksgiving dessert.

This vegan pumpkin ice cream is bursting with the flavors of pumpkin, maple, and coconut. It's the perfect sweet treat for Fall!

This pumpkin bread pudding is packed with Fall flavor from pumpkin, warm spices, and a splash of dark rum. And it's vegan too. Yum!

Creamy spiced pumpkin and dreamy coconut cashew cream layered with just the right amount of nutty crunch. These vegan parfaits are decadent, delicious and totally doable.

These vegan pumpkin bars are perfect for Fall! Loaded with rich pumpkin flavor and topped with a creamy vegan frosting. Yum!

Maple syrup brushed on the warm cobbler adds color and shine to the other-wise pale topping. And don’t save this excellent cobbler for wheat-sensitive people only; everyone will like it.

If you'd like an alternative to pumpkin pie for fall celebrations like Thanksgiving, or everyday meals, this vegan pear and apple crumble is a welcome dessert.

A rich, creamy dairy-free pudding made with chia seeds.

This delicious and very pretty cake is a lovely dessert to serve at for winter holiday meals, but you need not wait for a special occasion to make and enjoy it.

This dessert has a zippy sweet-and-tart flavor and is an ideal, easy-to-prepare, make-ahead holiday dessert.

This vegan pumpkin mousse is light and silky, yet totally indulgent. It's the perfect plant based dessert for Thanksgiving!

This simple and pretty combination of winter fruits is a refreshing finish to any meal, and pretty enough to serve as a Christmas dinner dessert, accompanied by your favorite cookies.

These fig bars have all of the chewiness and sweetness of traditional Fig Newton cookies, but they’re made with wholesome almonds, oats, and real dried figs.

These cookies taste every bit as sweet and indulgent as a cookie should, but they're surprisingly nutritious.

You won't believe how easy it is to make these unbaked vegan chocolate brownies, rich with nuts and sweetened with dates.

Cardamom is the perfect compliment to the classic combination of chocolate and orange. This mousse is so rich and decadent, no one will suspect that it's dairy-free!

In this light dessert, pears are lightly cooked in red wine and apple juice and gently spiced with cinnamon and allspice.

If you’re in need of a fuss-free, healthy dessert that will impress guests, look no further. These date and nut-based "truffles" are gluten-free, oil-free, quick, and easy.

One of my favorite ways to use dates in a dessert is with these decadent peanut butter fudge truffle that is easy to make and contains only 5 ingredients.

Two or three crisp apples or firm pears plus vegan chocolate chips add up to a seriously good dessert recipe.

The pairing of orange and cranberry makes for a lively flavor combination in vegan muffins. And for winter holiday baking or giving, this batter is nice made into mini-loaves.

This vegan Cranberry-Carrot Cake is festive and luscious, and is a nice alternative to pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner and wonderful for Christmas as well.

Creamy butternut squash tastes just as good as pumpkin in this classic holiday pie recipe. And it's vegan friendly too!