Vegan Lasagna Recipe for the Holidays - SunnysideHanne (2024)

You are going to love this make ahead vegan rainbow lasagna recipe because it makes a perfectly stunning centerpiece for your holiday table.

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“Abudanza!” My mother gaily announced as she placed the massive cheesy lasagna on our holiday table decorated with a bright blue table cloth entwined with purple flowered vines.

She cut massive squares of layered goodness and placed one on each of our three (my sister, mom and me) Salvation Army plates. As I tucked into the steaming tomato saucy lasagna, I was thinking of the next slice I would take. I was also daydreaming about how we would warm up the lasagna in the toaster oven the next day.

There was a feeling of sagging, sweet disappointment nearing the end of my initial slice as I realized there was no way I could manage another bite let alone another slice. I teased apart the remainder with my fork exposing layers of cheese and spinach, ricotta and mushrooms and nibbled like a mouse at an impossibly large and delicious wedge of cheese.

Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa’s fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,…
She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.”

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

The nearest supermarket was two miles away and there we’d buy our groceries once a week after work and school. Our shopping cart loaded high we’d nonchalantly push it past the rows of parked cars until we got to the outer limits of the parking lot and then we’d make a dash for it out of the lot. In sleet and snow banks in winter, and scorching sun in summer, we’d push our groceries home, a bit embarrassed as we walked through the affluent neighborhoods and caught the disapproving wrinkled noses of our “neighbors”.

Once home we’d unload the cart and carry our groceries up to our third floor apartment leaving the metal cart on a corner. My mom would then call the supermarket and in a haughty tone, mimicking our WASP neighbors, tell the supermarket that “someone’ had abandoned a shopping cart on the corner.

Staring at our full fridge and pantry my mom would heave a dramatic sigh and announce “We’re rich!”

“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house”

-Laura Ingalls Wilder

By the way my mom made the most kick-ass vegan lasagna you ever tasted! For the “beef” crumbles in my vegan lasagna I used this brand. Feel free to use what ever you have in your market. There is no need to have all of the ingredients in your vegan lasagna; just make sure the ratios are similar. Throw in eggplant or zucchini slices if you prefer.

A round main dish just seems so festive. Give my holiday frittata a try and and I promise you won’t be dissapointed.

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