christmas

i love entertaining for holidays such as thanksgiving and christmas

My wife and I love having people over for dinner for no other reason than to share time and life and love with them. Something special happens around the dinner table at home that just doesn't happen in a restaurant.

My reason for entertaining guests is just to have a good time with good friends and good food!

My FAV reason to entertain to is to show my love for others...

I'm actually having my very own Housewarming party coming up soon so this would be the absolute first time I would have responsibility of doing all the work and entertaining guests. Therefore, I would LOVE to have some great recipes and some great tips and ideas on how to entertain vegan style!!! How awesome that would be......!

I love entertaining guests because I love getting a chance to try out new recipes and introduce my friends (who aren't vegetarian) to vegetarian food.

I like having my playgroup over so they can see that my kids and I eat such awesome food. Sometimes people wonder what we eat, and it is a good way for me to showcase delicious vegan food.

I love holding a christmas party, because the spirit of the holidays makes it so much fun and is a little easier since it's all about enjoying each others company!

I don't usually have a specific event as a reason for entertaining. I just love randomly inviting friends over to share a great vegan meal, even in the middle of the week. Although... I do make a fantastic homemade tofu "turkey" at Thanksgiving.

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is to share amazing vegan food that everyone enjoys. It opens people's minds about what good food is really about and how great vegan food is!

I actually don't entertain at home anymore. People are so freaked out because meat isn't on the menu. but I do send dishes to pot lucks my husband does with scouts and until he recently retired, I sent tons of desserts to work as I experimented. My hubby is a meat eater but I do not serve animal products at home, so he eats what I make-or he eats elsewhere!

My family has always shared food with family, friends, and neighbors as an important part of our lifestyle. I still love cooking for other people because it is just how I was raised. Now that I am eating more vegetarian, and working on becoming vegan, I love sharing the new recipes I find with others. Often, those I cook for are surprised that my dishes contain no meat. My favorite reasons to cook, though, are definitely Thanksgiving and Christmas. In my family, those holidays center around the turkey and the ham. I'd love to bring a new perspective this year and surprise my relatives with some tasty vegetarian dishes!

My favorite reason for entertaining is having cooking parties with friends. Pizza parties are my all-time favorite!

I like throwing crazy parties with no particular reason i.ex. autumn blues parties, winter warming parites, victorian-style tea, and so on.

I love to entertain guests by serving them lots of yummy vegan foods so they can find out for themselves how amazing and healthy vegan foods are. Hopefully then they will be more open to eating way more vegan foods.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter

I love just having friends (all omnivores, except for one vegetarian) over and cook them a delicious vegan meal. They're always astonished by how good vegan food can taste, and I love getting my cooking-ego stoked :).

Minnesota summers are so short that we have to make the most of them by entertaining in our backyard. Now that it's newly fenced-in we'll be having even more cookouts this year!

I love preparing interesting dishes, and my boyfriend loves to grill - so I love having guests over just so we have an excuse to cook!

Considering no one else I know is vegan, this book is on my list of ones to test on unsuspecting dinner guests!

birthday parties and holidays

My favorite reason for entertaining is to have my entire family in one place at the same time! We're all living in different states these days. To get everyone together again is awesome, and to inspire them to eat more vegan food is just an added bonus!

I teach folk dancing and we host regular dance parties with potluck meals in our home. I always request that the potluck is vegetarian and everyone consistently honors that. In fact, several dancers know that I am vegan and will bring vegan dishes specially for me. :-)

I like to throw backyard bonfires. We fire up the grill and everyone brings a dish. It is great summertime fun!

My husband and I are moving into our first house next month and are planning a Haunted Housewarming for Halloween. I enjoy cooking and always bring a vegan dish or two to family functions that everyone ends up liking a lot. I hope that this book can give me some ideas for hôrs-d'eouvres and finger foods I can make for people to eat at the party.

I love having family and friends over during the holidays.

I love sharing my vegan food because every time I do I am saving an animal that would have been eaten by that person. I am having a graduation party in a little over a month and everything at my party will be vegan. Imagine how many animals I will be saving that day! Plus, I'll be opening up the eyes of many people to vegan food and how good it does taste! With this book I will be able to have many more parties like my graduation party and share different foods (plus I graduate again in a little over 2 years with my BA). This would be an awesome graduation present!!

Thanksgiving and Christmas: I just love to cook collard greens, sweet potato cake, macaroni and cheese, Great Un-Turkey and dressing, cranberry sauce.

Summertime: making vegan burgers, bbq [vegan] hotdogs and sausages.

It's all good.

Summer entertaining with some chairs dragged out on to the patio and a hot grill for seitan, tofu, and grilled corn is where it's at. Plus, there's no better time for mojitos and that's worth entertaining for!

This book looks fantastic!

My favorite reason is any holiday meal I am allowed to cook at! Any time i am allowed to cook veg., it shows to my family and friends that being veg doesn't have to be plain or taste bad!!

I'd love to use this for any of the major holidays. My family are all meat eaters, so I'm the lone vegan always left with only mashed potatoes and vegetables at every holiday. I've started bringing a few things, but I need to find a recipe that everyone will love. This year I'm determined to prove everyone wrong about veganism!

i love entertaining for everything..i get such satisfaction and joy watching people have a good time and eat the food i have prepared for them :)

I love entertaining because it brings the family together. I live in Ohio and football is huge here. I love watching college football especially and last year started a tradition of hosting Ohio State games at my place. While others bring their fave dishes, I provide the majority - all vegan and all mouth-watering. I'm the only vegan in my family, but the omnis still eat my food and we still have fun! I cannot tell you how many recipes I've copied for my mother!

My favorite way to entertain is a summer garden party. The garden becomes a magical place in the summer with all the flowers in bloom and a few candles lit at dusk...a wonderful backdrop for sharing food and conversation with friends and family.

I love entertaining at home. It gives me a chance to cook and get all of my friends and family together. It's also a great way to introduce a "green" lifestyle to those who don't understand or think that eating vegan means eating boring. I always prove otherwise.

I love cooking! I love food! What I love the most now, since going vegan, is cooking for omnivores and seeing their reactions! The misconception that vegan food is "gross" or "unappetizing" saddens me :( I love surprising omnivores and showing them that vegan diets are not only healthy, but you can still eat anything you want and make it take as good, if not better, than eating the animal products they're used to!

Throwing dinner parties is a great way to nurture my friends and our friendships!

I love cooking vegan for my friends and family because they can't believe the amazing taste! I also love to share with them the fact that the taste is still there without harming animals or using dairy products!

celebrating birthdays

I love having vegan picnics! Something about eating outside in nature always makes the food taste better.

My favorite reason for entertaining is to introduce someone to a new food or recipe. A friend and I made dinner together because she wanted to learn about quinoa--she loved it and I was glad to teach her!

I love having dinner parties and bringing different friends together.

I love entertaining the weekends with games, food and drinks. No special reason, just for fun.

I like to do the entertaining at holiday time so that I can guarantee a healthy menu with items that I can eat. Plus I like the hustle and bustle of getting everything ready and then everyone else cleans up!

My favorite time for entertaining is on-the-fly!

When family or friends are in town and the phone rings only to find out they are just around the corner. Most people don't really enjoy this too much but I love it. It gives me a chance to get imaginative under the pressure and really shine. The aroma of new flavors, the colors of delicious spices and the sound of loved ones laughing. These times are when I usually make the most creative, vibrant dishes and have the most fun.

My favorite excuse to entertain is for game night. I love having people over to play board games and snack on vegan finger foods.

I like any opportunity to entertain so that I can prepare vegan dishes for my non-vegan family and friends and show them that you can have a fabulous meal without using animal products.

My favorite entertaining holiday is Thanksgiving because it is the MOST difficult time for Vegans and I LOVE to show people how elegantly wonderful it can be to celebrate Thanksgiving without killing a turkey!

I love entertaining guests just because I love cooking, especially for people who enjoy good vegan food. And to spend time with family and friends!

My primary reason for being a vegan is for the welfare of the animals. Whenever I prepare delicious vegan food for guests I am hoping to plant a few vegan seeds for thoughts along with great food and recipes. It has worked and The Vegan Table will only help to inspire a few more.

Christmas definately. I'd love to have this book to cook a vegan meal for my non-vegan family. I'd like to show them that being vegan is not only good for the animals but also good for their health and that the foods are even better tasting than non-vegan meals.

I would use the cookbook to cook for my Mexican boyfriend who is very very slowing starting to hinik it is ok and good to eat vegan foods.

Cocktails & veg appetizers with the girls!

I love cooking & especially baking for vegans and non veg people alike! I especially love having people over for brunch - the ultimate meal to impress people with no eggs, dairy or meats! Always a hit with friends!

The thing I love the most about entertaining is sharing exciting vegan dishes with my carnivorous family. They're always surprised to find that vegan food is not weird and gross, it just doesn't have animal products!

I just love to cook for others. I especially love hosting a dinner and omnivores are there and they love the vegan food.

I love fall, so a harvest/thanksgiving dinner is always my fave. Whenever that time of year rolls around, I love to try new recipes!

Any reason at all is enough for me to entertain. I love cooking for people and exposing them to new food choices. It really gets me going to hear a hearty "Yummm" coming from my guests. When they pile on another helping, it's just icing for me.

It is a real treat for my husband and I to have our 4 children over for a BBQ. They all live within an hour from us, but their schedules don't allways permit them to come home. We have 2 omnis, a vegetarian and a vegan! We allways treat them to a vegan feast and they love it! I would love to win this cookbook. Allways looking for new recipies to WOW them!

Because my favorite thing to hear from my meat-eating counterparts is: "Wait - there's no meat in this? But it's so good!", as I grin smugly with satisfaction of a job well done. :)

My favorite reason for entertaining is to have good food with great friends.

My favorite time is a tie: clothing exchange parties and Xmas potluck cocktail parties. Both are great times to show non-veg folks how diverse (and fabulous) vegan eats can be, PLUS it's an excuse to eat a whole meal of hors d'œuvres ;)

i entertain quite often! we have a family of six plus my brothers wives, and we have all birthday parties at our house. so we are looking for new things to make since we have 8+ birthdays a year. this would be great because 4 of us are vegetarians and 1 is vegan!

because it's Saturday!!!

What's better then evening summer get togethers with friends and family!! Nice warm weather, a few drinks, and good food- that's heaven!

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is to ignore the troubles in life and to over come it by sharing stories and the things that went on our lifes,Eating and sharing vegetarian food and proving how eating a little bit of green a day is better then consuming unhealthy fried chicken

I love having people over to celebrate their birthdays! We love to have dinner, games and prizes, the works!

Having a healthy dinner is a great way to connect to friends and family that often get caught up with their busy lifestyles. When I host dinners (and bbqs, and dessert nights, etc.) I like to give people a healthy and refreshing meal to take with them as well as the joy of reconnecting with friends and family.

When I cook for my family, it is recreating a dinner tradition that my grandmother started but hasn't been able to keep up since she has been getting older (We sit around the table and say one good thing that happened during the day). Plus, it is always nice to reassure my grandmother that I know how to cook and eat healthily. I am away at college often and she thinks that I will starve because she doesn't understand vegan meals herself!

I like celebrations: birthdays, anniversaries. Those are special times that should be shared.

We always have a Superbowl party, a World Series party,a NHL party, a NASCAR party, a Halloween party and of course there is my birthday, hubby's birthday, our anniversary & Christmas all in a row! That is always a huge party week and we always need new suggestions.

I love making vegan dishes for events at my school. Then I just sit back and watch people's reactions. They're usually pleasantly surprised!

As a teacher, my favorite times to entertain are those that include my colleages: meetings, workshops, classes, etc. I love these gatherings because they're the perfect time to educate my fellow educators about how delicious a veg*n lifestyle can be. This book would be a great way to bring an even better learning experience to the table!

I entertain to enjoy the company of friends and family.

We love to entertain mostly during the summer months when we can be outdoors and share good food and good conversation. The evenings are perfect, as the days are longer and we can linger outside by candlelight talking well into the night!

Brunch! Showing people that items such as waffles, pancakes, muffins, and scrambles can be made without eggs and dairy is great not only for the animals, but also for their arteries.

Seeing friends out is great but it's always hard to have a conversation at a music venue or noisy bar. Having friends over allows for easy, intimate conversations that are so important in developing strong relationships. Having great food that shows the compassionate side of me (vegan) opens up more people to my food choices in a comfortable environment.

I love entertaining and hanging out with my friends....

I hate the way people thinks about being a vegan. A vegan party with friends could maybe change their minds.

I just bought my first house and I want to start entertaining my friends and family more.

I love introducing veganism to everyone who enters my home. It's a wonderful feeling when all of my guests are completely satisfied and didn't even miss the meat dish.

Showing people that vegan food can be delicious. I like to not tell people, then have them try it, then tell them it's vegan. Its a way to spread the word without being pushy.

I like entertanining my family for the holidays.

I have recently relocated from South Africa to England. My friends in SA never blinked an eyelid at my 'weird' eating habits. However making new friends in England had proved as a challenge as most people are terrified to invite me over, because they don't know how to cater for me.
I would love to host a dinner party at my house where I could make only vegan meals that are so yummy everyone will realise that a vegan doesn't only eat "plain pasta or green salad".
Food and friends what a perfect combo.

I like to have neighours over, and to show them that you CAN have guests and still have everyone enjoy vegan meals even If they are NOT vegan......

I like to take vegan main dishes to work parties.

Having friends over for a vegan BBQ on my deck during the summer

I like to create a theme, Italian, French, Indian, or a holiday etc. Then WOW my non vegan friends with delicious vegan food....hoping, of course, to encourage them to eat more vegan meals.

Parties & family get-togethers are the perfect opportunity to introduce vegan foods to non-vegetarians. Sometimes, "vegan" sounds too strange or foreign to them until they try my famous vegan brownies or vegan jello shots, then they see that "vegan" means good food and that just about any favorite can be made "vegan".

My major purpose in hosting a Vegan dinner party would be to introduce the glories of Vegan Diet to my guests and family, and show how it impacts the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being of humans, animals, environment, the whole earth.

I'm having an all-vegan barbecue on my porch in a few days. My non-veg friends are gonna be amazed!

OMG! My girlfriend (DP) and I LOVE to entertain at our apartment. I absolutely love to share new vegetarian/vegan dishes with them as well. A lot of our family and friends are very interested in our vegetarian/vegan meals. They always ask us how to make their favorite dishes vegetarian/vegan. It is always so great to share a great day or evening with the people we love with delicious cruelty free food.

I love entertaining, as a way to share life and enjoy life with other people! I feel that nothing compares to sitting around with friends, drinking wine, and simply living.

I love entertaining guests all the time. It gives you a chance to spend quality time with friends and family and you get to showcase your cooking skills!

I just love getting my friends together for a quiet evening at home. We fix dinner, have a few drinks and chat. There's no better excuse for hanging out with loved ones than "hey, I just missed you".

Summer in the garden! Fresh air, sunshine, and local seasonal produce grown by members of my community garden are the perfect combination for a get-together. It's a great opportunity to introduce omnivores to the delights of vegan food.

I love entertaining and bringing people together. Having people in my home, or coming to theirs and cooking for them is one of the great joys of my life. I like to introduce people to new and different ways of eating, adding spice or healthier, secret twists to usually unhealthy faves. It could be any season or holiday, but most times I just enjoy bringing people together with food they miss, can't make or don't have time to make. Vegan food can be delicious and tasty, exotic and sinful all at the same time. Sometimes the best part is creating a meal and surprising folks at the end by telling them it's vegan--when otherwise they'd never have guessed it!

I would love to learn how to cook vegan. Everything looks so yummy and it will help wean me off meats.

I love to entertain people with vegan fare because I can prove that animal-friendly food can be both deliocious and nutritios!

To convert people, of course! ;)

I love entertaining because it gives me a chance to connect with friends and family, and build a bond with those people.

I love hosting dinner parties so I can show my friends and family just how delicious and versatile vegan food really is!

I live in the country, so any chance to get people all the way out here and feed them is my favorite entertaining opportunity!

My husband and I love having friends over for dinner and then game nights!

Dinner party!

Why wait? You don't need a holiday or birthday to share a scrumptious vegan meal! Every Day is the perfect day!!

Save an animal life for the holidays.

I love entertaining to my omni family and friends because I love the opportunity to show them that being vegan doesn't mean just eating salads!

when i entertain, not only do i enjoy the fact that i'm introducing non-vegan friends and family members to the foods i eat, it's also a way to get the less healthy of my loved ones to see that there are tastier, more nutritious, animal-free, cruelty-free ways to nourish one's body. from the dinner table to the bathrooms to my home furnishings, cruelty-free soaps and lotions, essential oil room fresheners, etc.! living vegan is a responsibility i choose in order to help my friends and family realize through my example that life can be more rewarding, peaceful, healthy, beautiful, and happy by not consuming animal products. they see that i've lost weight, have more energy, smile more, am more even-tempered, and it's all thanks to living a more spiritually conscious life, a large part of which involves my converting to veganism.

I love to entertain to share with others.

We love entertaining..... and I am always DESPERATE for new Vegan recipes and ideas... Eating healthy and kind.

Always appreciate a new cookbook!

my EarthSave group has a vegan pot luck once a month.

It is so much fun to invite my nonveg friends over and to see the delight on their faces when they discover that everything (and I mean everything) that they are enjoying is vegetarian!

It is so much fun to invite my nonveg friends over and to see the disbelief on their faces when they discover that everything (and I mean everything) that they are enjoying is vegetarian!

I would love to learn how to feed my family "vegan" style. I am vegan and have been making excuses about "why" my family needs to eat meat. I would love to turn my thanksgiving feast into a meal I can be proud of. My family has joined my pledge to be meat free!!!!!!!

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is for no other reason other than I just like to be around those that I love!!

It's all about friends and having fun together

I love to cook, period. And the more people I can cook for the better.
Cooking is a passion, I love to create and get into that lovely zone as you work and make something that is both beautiful, tastey and vegan, what could be better then sharing something you're so proud of with people you appriciate? So really, any time is the best time.
With a little 4 year old vegan at my side, we make each meal a party, talking about how healthy it is and how not a single soul was harmed for our meal, it's beautiful.

My fave reason for entertaining guests with vegan meals is to inform them about delish vegan food AND because it is so much more memorable and intimate to cook and dine at home than to go out and eat!

I like our annual Super Bowl party the best. And yes, we do it vegan.

I love to cook Vegan and Vegetarian for my family and friends because I know they don't eat very healthy and this is my way of caring. Plus I just love to have them for dinner.

I love to cook for friends and family to enjoy a meal with a background of talk, laughter and happiness.

Key party

I don't need a special occasion to show off my kitchen skills for my friends - I just do it!

Wow, I am Newer Vegetarian and this would be a lovely Prize to Win! Please enter me in this Fantastic Contest and God bless everyone trying to improve their lives. Thank YOU, CECE

We enjoy spending time with family and friends. I also would like introduce vegan foods to some of my family.

Xmas is at my house and I will be serving ALL vegan foods!!! Can't wait! I am anxious to see what my meat eating family will think, I know they will love the food and goodies!

My favorite reason for entertaining is to gather my friends, family and guests together to catch up and have a moment to relax out of their busy and hectic schedules. My secret goal is to show them that eating vegan, even vegetarian, isn't something that should be sneered at. I want to prove to them that it can be easy! When thinking about cooking vegan, people freak out, thinking that it will take hours of preparation and special ingredients that are impossible to find. I love letting my guests know exactly what I put into the food making it vegan and how easy it really is! Of course the taste test is the final decider, and I always get them back wanting more.

love the holidays but getting together just to get together- cooking and fellowshio yearround

Good conversations, the warmth of friends, the many taste delights of fresh gazpacho, vegan pasta primavera served with a glass of organic wine, a salad with greens just picked from my greenhouse, topped off with some great (gluten free) vegan brownies and soy ice cream.....and the simple joy of knowing that it's a great way to eat!

Any help I can get would be great. I have not yet purchased any cookbooks. I went vegan 23 days ago. My two young girls 6 & 8 decided they wanted to be vegetarian, my husband is still eating meat. If I can find great tasting recipes that are vegan maybe my husband won't eat as much meat & I can introduce my family & freinds to great tasting animal free foods.
We entertain all the time but not since I've converted to veganism, I'm a little nervous, to prepare vegan food for everyone.

Christmas has always been my favourite time for meal preparation and celebration!

I love cooking for guests because I love cooking god, vegan food that leaves people feeling full and comfortable the way you do when your mother or grandmother makes you a big hearty meal with lots of love. I love that feeling, so I like to give it to others.

I need new vegan recipes. This cookbook looks great!

Entertaining friends over good vegan food helping them to appreciate that becoming vegan doesn't mean that you have to give up eating good and having food that tastes great!

I love having my friends and family over for dinner to show them how wonderful and healthy vegan food is! I also love to show them that they can enjoy a satisfying meal without eating a innocent animal!

The nicest way to introduce friends and family to my vegan-lifestyle, is by inviting them over and serving them beautiful and delicious dishes prepared with 100 % love - more ways than one!

I would love to win this for a friend. Please enter me. Thanks!

I created a vegan baby shower for my twin sister who is 8 months pregnant. I made vegan cupcakes which were beautiful and had lots of other vegan snacks that everybody loved (even the meat eaters!)

I love making my butternut squash soup for co-workers at thanks giving. They all request it and tell me how delicious it is. The guy who makes the turkey even told me that my soup is one of the main dishes he looks forward too! Also I love making my vegan chili, meat eaters love it! and my boyfriend asks me to make it all the time.

Cooking for friends and family is always a joy, to just hang out and eat eat eat! I don't need an occassion. Also, I love showing my non-veg friends how great a vegan or vegetarian dish can really be.

Many of my friends and family live far away so whenever they visit I love to cook a wonderful vegan meal for them so we can all catch up on what each other is doing and remember the old times.

Don't have to have a reason to be with friends and family. Any day is good day to celebrate just being around those I cherish and preparing vegan meals and snacks is just a bonus to being together.

my favorites are the holidays - thanksgiving and christmas - but I enjoy having family and friends for dinner any time!

Any occassion is a great way to spread the word about veganism.
I do always have Christmas at my home.

Christmas, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Easter. Thanks.

I;m making a slow transition to vegan this book would help. Hope I win!!!

Holidays and birthdays!

Would love this book. have such a difficult time figuring out what to make for holidays

I love to provide a bountiful vegan breakfast on Christmas morning when my parents come over to my home to celebrate the holiday with me, my husband, and our three vegan kids!

I love inviting my beloved ones (family and friends); I don't need a reason for that :)

I love cooking vegan food for them and I'm very happy to hear "Uhm, this is so good that it's hard to believe it's vegan!"

My favorite reason for entertaining is to bring fun and fabulous food to my family and friends. This newly Vegan girl needs help to show her family and friends that vegan food is delicious too!

I love entertaining, because I love to cook and I love my friends! Why would I want to go out to eat, and miss out on half the fun?

I like to entertain because there's nothing quite as wonderful as good friends and good food--at the same time!

I just love cooking, and it's so much more fun to share the results. I like to create themed occasions such as watching "Bottle Shock," visiting Chateau Motelena, and packing a classic picnic.

any excuse to have all of my friends in one place is a good one :) I have a vegan caramel corn recipe that my friends LOVE!

i like making veg food for my meat-eating friends. they're always really surprised at how good veg food can be.

i love to entertain at christmas.. its just so much fun to put on a big show then

Family reunions

Would love to win. Please enter me, thank you

I love entertaining people because it brings us much closer to each other and I believe that closeness is something the world is lacking. I also love to show others that I eat more than "rabbit food" and it is possible to be a healthy, happy vegan. Sometimes people can be surprised at what vegans can eat. It is also good to show others that some of their favorite meals are vegan and they don't even know or think about it. This may encourage them to accept veganism into their lifestyle.

to share my love of vegan food with others and inspire them to incorporate more veg options into their current lifestyle....mainly hoping to inspire them to eventually go veg themselves. i take pride in cooking tasty vegan treats and absolutely love to share my goodies with friends and family!!

I love entertaining as it brings friends together, and I like to show how wonderful vegan food can be. And they enjoy it! It also makes me try out new recipes.

I love entertaining for Christmas.

I absolutely love cooking during the holiday season, which for me starts with Halloween and ends with New Year's Eve. I get to be with my friends and family that I only get to see once or twice a year. I love to entertain them in the little time I can and more ideas would be really helpful. I could get my sister to stop bugging me to eat meat again by stuffing her mouth with delicious animal-free food :-)

I love to introduce people to beautiful flavours of food that is made from no animal products or content. I am delighted to teach them that meals don't HAVE to be made with animal products. Healthy eating is part of a balance of nutrition and balance of our actions upon the world. It's a full circle. I love that they can LOVE and INDULGE themselves in a meal that they previously would have believed would be too hard and tastless. We can all learn from one another. Food brings people together so why can;t it bring balance to the earth too?

I am a chef at a whole foods organic restaurant. It would be nice to have some good vegan recipes for some of the special events that we do.

love entertaining for Christmas

I love to have people over and entertain them, mainly to enjoy good company! It also gives me an opportunity to expand my vegan cooking and creativeness. Only a small handful of my friends are either vegan/vegetarian so it allows me to show them that vegan/vegetarian cooking is NOT just a boring salad or vegetables.

The best reason to entertain is to show meat eaters the wonderful, delicious world of satisfying and tasty vegan food. This keeps them from eating meat for at least one meal, sometimes inspiring them

My favorite time to entertain is for birthdays-our family was never big on birthday entertainment when I was a kid, and I rarely went to birthday parties- so as an adult, it's my favorite excuse to get a bunch of people together, whip up a bunch of good food from drinks all the way up the the birthday cake.

I love to entertain guests as it means i can try out new food myself, and hopefully they will love the food too so they will choose to follow the vegan lifestyle like me! Christmas is the best though... It means i can ask people round for tea and mince pies and gives me a chance to bake up my yum vegan ones. I love mince pies!!

I love to cook Vegan for animal eating friends. When they see how wonderful the food is, I think it gives them reason to reconsider their choices. It also shows that a meal IS complete without animal proteins, a common misconception.

Entertaining with vegan food is a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of the many meatless options that are available. Any day is a great day for this.

Entertaining is for the joy of having friends and family to socialize with. Plus being new to veganism, it is a way to show them that there is more to eat than just salads...

Colleen does much more than write cook books. She is a major inspiration to myself and others in adopting a Vegan lifestyle. Supporting her excellent books helps her continue.

I like to entertain guests as a way to say "thank you".

Just a friendly get together---who needs a reason?

We like to have family over for our kids' birthdays.

I love exposing my guests to new vegan cooking. It's wonderful to spend time with the people you care about while enjoying delicious cruelty-free food!

I love to watch their faces when they take bites of the delicious vegan food!

i love cooking vegan.

i'm so new to it. so i think this book will help me severely.

I would love this book for the holidays.

I have recently come back to vegetartianism, after commenting to my mother about a story about using horses for human consumption. I have hated eating meat again, but did it anyways. Now I want to be able to prove to myself and family that it's in my best interest and that they can enjoy it too. Would be great to help them discover that meatless meals are not as awful as they think.

We've been doing vegan pot luck Thanksgiving for the last 3 years! It's so much fun getting together with friends and sharing cruelty free yummy food!

Just getting together to spend time with friends or family is reason enough! Not to mention discussion of the veg/vegan recipes we used for the get-together.

I love Sunday dinner with my friends. I recently graduated from college and it's the one way that we all still can get together in NYC without spending a ridiculous amount of money. I cook most of the food and my friends bring all the extras.

My favourite reason for entertaining guests is showing off how great vegan food can be so that my guests leave knowing they are being fools not to try it, for both ethical and culinary reasons.

I love to entertain to get back to center - isn't great to spend time with good friends? :)

I just love spending time with friends and family!

Just because I like to cook!

I like throwing a different ethnic themed dinner party each time. Indian, Moroccan, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Polish, etc. It makes it fun to create vegan meals with such a diverse amount of flavors!!

I LOVE making vegan food for people who HATE vegan food...especially barbecues! Its amazing that when things taste good, they forget that its vegan.

entertaing brings together 2 of my fav things food and friends. i look for ne excuse to bring the 2 together.

I love entertaining!

I love to entertain guests not only because we all have fun, but it also gives me a chance to try recipes that I wouldn't make for just my husband and myself!

My favorite is for an informal supper!

I love entertaining and making people feel loved and welcomed in my home! Thanks!

Who doesn't need help entertaining the non-veg in-laws? They always act like I'm going to poison them!

I love entertaining any time because I love cooking!!

My husband and I love to entertain for birthdays, holidays, special occasions or for no reason at all! I especially love surprising meat eating people with wonderful vegan food. They never miss the meat (and neither do I).

I don't need a reason to entertain. I love to cook. Our family just switched to 100% Vegetarian and couldn't be happier. It has giving me a reason to try more new great recipes!
I also love having my in-laws over who cringe at the thought of not having any meet in their food and then realizing my food tastes great whether there is meat in it or not : )

It's hard to entertain when you don't serve meat. However, I love the great company and serving nonmeat wondeful dishes that everyone loves and doesn't notice that it's vegan. Then when I tell them, they make comments that "it wasn't that good", or "wow, I'm still eating meat". Yet they gobble it down like there's no tomorrow.

I love cooking for friends and family on the holidays.I come from a very closed minded family so cookin meals for them gives me the opportunity to show them a delicious alternative to eating meat. I love living a cruelty free lifestyle but even more than that I love it when someone else chooses to because I showed them how easy it can be.

To be honest, I really do not entertain much... yet. But I think this book will give me the opportunity to try out some really great recipes and have some friends over for a special occasion. Letting them see that vegan food can be just as savory and delicious; hopefully, opening their eyes to a new (healthier) main source of nourishment.

I love cooking for any family event. I simply love sitting around the table with a bunch of hard core carnivores oohing and aahhing over my latest vegan creation :)

I love to have a few friends over for dinner, drinks and cards a few times a month-it's to noisy at bars and this gives us all a chance to talk and catch up with each other. Great giveaway!

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I love to get my family together for healthy food and a way to catch up on our lives.

i love to entertain for birthday parties! everyone is so surprised that you can actually make cake without milk or eggs!

I love to entertain with delicious vegan food! Everyone is surprised you can make cakes and cookies without eggs. (I still don't think my mother-in-law believes me!)

I love having friends over on a nice day and grilling up some veggies and tofu brats. It's great to introduce vegan dishes to meat-eaters in a casual fun setting.

I love having friends over for brunch potluck out on my patio.

I just love having everyone over for a movie night and I like making healthy snacks for them.

I love to have friends and neighbors come over since I'm really far away from my family. I really miss my family get-togethers, which happen on a weekly basis. I just decided to go vegan in a very meat-centered part of the country and I would love to show them that eating meat-free dishes can be really yummy and they can feel good about it too!

I'm getting hungry already!

Since when does anyone need a reason to host people? Time together is the foundation of relationships and I value my relationships with family, friends, & neighbors (and all of those categories intersect) and love spending time with them. We all have to eat, so time together eventually includes food :).

Weve been vegetarian for a couple of years - now vegan - it was not a difficult shift for us but our friends are totally freaked out by the whole thing. We invite all our friends to the house because I love to cook, Cathy loves to clean up and we both love to be with friends and family sharing the delicious food, the camaderie, the excellent talk around the table well into the night. Finally we want to share health with everyone we love.

I tend to only think to throw parties for holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, but really any time is a good time for a get together.

I love to make vegan food for sports games, like the super bowl or the final four. I like the idea of breaking the tradition of feasting on meat in front of the sports tube. Birthdays are great fun too!

A fridge busting at the seams with fresh CSA veggies, and a crowd of hungry friends willing to pitch in with chopping and dish washing!

For me, sharing great vegan food is just about one of the best experiences in the world..I would like to start a Vegan Dinner Party meetup group in my area, and this book would help immensely!!!

Me and my best friend have become vegitarians and we support each other , and whenever we are with each other we are vegans!

My husband's family is the meat-dependent, country cooking type, so they are always thinking I'm starving him (he's not entirely veg, but he does make much more health conscious decisions about his food consumption now). I'm always looking for killer recipies to entertain and impress the skeptics! I look forward to checking out the book!

I love entertaining guests because I love to watch their faces when I tell them it's vegan. They seem to stare at me as if to say "It's vegan? Then why does it taste so delicious?!" I think that cooking vegan meals for non-vegetarian/vegan guests is very important in helping them see that compassion really does taste good!

A garden full of frfesh veggies and movie night with my vegan friends.

I have never thought about hosting a vegan dinner. Whenever I have friends and family over for dinner or a celebration, my husband who is not vegetarian, cooks up a meat dish for our guest and I cook the vegan alternative for me. What a great idea, I get so much flack for being vegan, why not invite all of those people over who think I am crazy and say there is no way they could not eat meat, and give them a great vegan meal. I hope I win the book!

My wife and I host Tailgates every fall for the local University in our city. It is not unusual for there to be over 200 guests at a time at one of our tailgates, namely, University Alumni with their friends and family. We welcome a challenge and would love to serve healthy yet tasty dishes at this years tailgates!

My birthday is on the 22nd and I would like to cook this spectacular feast, serve it to my meat eating friends. I would like them to know that being a vegan is a lot of fun, and that the pleasure of food doesn't get up and run when you put down the knife...

I am so excited to start collecting some awesome vegan books. This one looks like it would be great for me to entertain family and friends.

Having a wonderful family who is very far away makes my friends even more important and what better way to show them how much I appreciate them then hosting a dinner party...no matter how many dirty dishes there are to clean up it is always worth it even if it is just the next door neighbor!

Thanksgiving! I love showing others how delicious it can be without the bird!

I like to have parties for kids to show them that vegan can be fun. Not only do they get great food, but they realize that their food choices are helping animals and the environment. As the kids find the food enjoyable, their parents are more likely to try something new!

I love to entertain my family they are comming to my town they always wonder why im so hooked on being a vegetarian so I want to give them the taste of their life. My children also are vegetarians and they love to cook with me. I do thanksgiving every year so this year I wanted me and my children to do something diffrent.

entertaining for guests is what i do best! i have recently moved from a veg diet to a vegan diet and would love some great recipe ideas. i also have a veg entertaining blog that i am sure could use some fresh ideas. thanks!

Hosting a dinner event for me is a wonderful excuse to make new foods I have not tried before or make my absolute favourite cuisine: THAI FOOD!

A group of my friends have recently become vegan and vegetarian and having new dinner ideas would be wonderful. (I can't only make pad thai for them so many times!)

I am new to the vegan life style and don't have a lot of cookbooks.. I would love to win, so that I not only have some guidence but also some AWESOME geat food to hopefully change family and friends minds on how yummy a vegan life style can be. :)

My favorite way to have a food-centered party is to host a bake-off at my house. So far we've had a vegan pie bake-off and a cookie bake-off. Super fun and everyone gets involved... with small prizes for the winners. It exposes my non-vegan friends to vegan baking/cooking and the food can be eaten by everyone.

I love baking and cooking for my friends, especially Indian food (being from India myself) which is primarily vegetarian!

Cooking is a passion of mine and entertaining brings our friends and family together, often on a weekly basis. Cooking vegan or at least vegetarian means that no one is left out at our dinner table!

I love having small, intimate dinner parties for my non-vegan friends to show them how delicious a little cruelty-free eating can be.

Shabbat

I like to cook for any occasion, even if a friend is stopping by for tea. I like them to know that vegan food tastes great and that their bodies will thank them!

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is to try to convert them to veganism! It's great to invite people over for dinner and surprise them with how good vegan food tastes!

Fav reason to entertain is to RELAX together with friends/family enjoying healthy food, interesting conversation, and the warmth of each other's company.

Thanksgiving. I want to start a new tradition with my friends that can't be with their families. This book would be so helpful.

I love to have my daughter's friends over to eat with us as most of them are vegetarian in non-vegetarian homes. They enjoy it

Do you need a reason to entertain a guest? I just love cooking for everyone and the great feeling I get seeing my loved ones satisfied after a good meal

I love to nourish people and serving someone a wonderful, home cooked vegan meal helps me feel that I'm contributing to their overall well being.

I like to entertain my daughters friends. There is nothing like a group of 5 year olds munching on fruit and veges and so happy to be giggling that they don't even notice how good they are eating!

The best reason to entertain guests is to bring people together and share the joy of a healthy, delicious and veg friendly meal! I love introducing friends and family to veg food with flavor that is good for you and your taste buds.

As a vegan with friends of "mixed eating styles," my favorite reason for having folks come to my place for my own home-cooking is that I know everyone eating at my table is having "one more cruelty-free meal" than they otherwise might have had, PLUS knowing for myself that everything at the meal is vegan.

I like introducing people to vegan food so they know how good food can be without meat!

For the sake of the animals, I have been vegetarian for 18 years, and vegan for the past year.

I love having family & friends over for the holidays, and try to take these opportunities to introduce tasty, cruelty-free dishes to them.

It can be challenging to offer a wide variety of filling recipes that my meat-eating family/friends will enjoy. Like many meat-eaters, they think being vegetarian (and vegan) is all about being limited to eating lettuce, "like a rabbit".

I have been excited about Colleen's entertaining cookbook, ever since I heard her speak at a fundraiser for Florida Voices For Animals in Tampa. I won her vegan baking cookbook in the fundraiser silent auction, and LOVE it! Not only are there many, many great recipes, but the directions are easy to follow, and the tips on vegan baking has made me a much better cook.

I am confident this newest cookbook will help to further broaden the horizons of my meat-eating friends and family.

Thank you, Colleen, for continuing to give options that absolutely do save precious lives!

The reason i love entertaining is because I love for my friends and family to have a good time without worrying about anything.
No worries about cooking,cleaning or needing a place to stay if it gets too late;)

Favourite reason to entertain at my house: because it will be all vegan! It's hard enough to try to eat vegan out there... plus it's nice to have friends over to give them a flavourful, healthful and wonderful answer to their ever-asked question "what do vegans eat anyway?" LOL! ;-)

Having company over to entertain such as friends, and family, or even new acquaintences, is awesome to me. Having the privelege to see them all having a good time and entertaining them, especially with foods, makes my day! Plus I love cooking something new, and to see the reaction and satisfation on their faces is great!

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is to bring those people that I love and laugh with together in one room. I enjoy exchanging stories and hearing about their lives while catching up over a new dish and some candles. It's relaxing and always a joy to have people over!

That sounds like a good cookbook! I'm always looking for new vegetarian recipes...

Because I like making others feel welcome in our home.

My favorite dinner party is called YAM...Young Adults Meditation dinner. We get together and the host cooks Buddhist friendly food and also has the honor of leading the 30 minute meditation that precedes dinner. The aroma of garam masala, lentils and marinated tofu fill the room and transition us from meditation to enlightening dinner and savory conversation.

I love cooking all my delicious vegan dishes for my father-in-law and his wife. He is a Texas cattle rancher, and he admits that my meatless dishes are as good as the steaks that he usually eats.
Alicia Webster
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I love my daughter's summer birthday party- it is nice to serve great food that people love without them even knowing it is a vegan affair.

I love introducing friends, family and co-workers to new tastes and flavors....and letting them know how great vegan food can be!

thanksgiving is my favorite time to entertain guests! i do away with traditional turkey and surprise them! but i also like the no pressure fun of the holiday as opposed to others where i have to buy gifts!!

I would love to win this cookbook. I have been off the wagon for a while and have been vegetarian, but would like to get back on track and go vegan again.

I love having people over for dinner! It doesn't matter what the excuse is, I just love trying new vegan recipes.

I like to have people over to visit...no special reason tho

My mother is a wonderful hostess, and every soiree she's ever thrown has been amazingly beautiful, delicious, and comfortable. As her daughter and a vegan, I feel obligated (and honored) to carry on this tradition by entertaining as much as possible. I am the only vegan in my circle of friends and family, so I delight in creating tantalizing dishes that makes all the omnivores say "this is vegan?!" I truly hope I win this book, because it will help me potentially convert even more guests. Thanks vegcooking!

Gatherings of family and friends at any time of year.

ANYTIME, but the holidays arre always fun!

What can I say? I love food! I love having people over because it is a good excuse to eat, and a good excuse to fill people up with my new creations!

Thanks!

to celebrate the ordinary day's successes

meatballs (for by themselves) and to make subs

I am obsessed with vegan cookbooks. I work at a bookstore and every single cookbook I own (8 and counting!) I am consistently recommending. As a devout vegan, I hope that everyone opens their hearts and minds to experience the wonderful world of vegan food. Having a vegan get together (vegans and non alike) would be great! Thanks :)

As I am new to veganism I have yet to have friends and family over for vegan fare. I would love to get some great recipes to Wow and entice them all to live better.

My favourite entertaining is a dinner party for no occassion at all.

Good food with good people = good fun! :)

I love to entertain my family during the holidays

I live in my cottage house. We are on the water and have a small beach. So, my favourite time is to entertain in the summer. Of course easy entertaing vegan dishes are on the menu

Birthdays are my favorite occasion to invite over friends/family.
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a vegan dinner party sounds like fun

I love throwing dinner parties for any reason whatsoever, just to get a little close time with my circle of friends and get to meet some new people they might bring. One of the best parts about throwing the party is choosing a diverse and delicious menu, even for my guests who are more carnivorous than I. I simply glow when a non-vegetarian asks me for the recipe of something I cooked for them, and I am more than happy to oblige!

I like entertaining guests during 4th of July.

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is just because- we love to hang out with good food and good friends and have a great time.
It's wonderful when you can accommodate all of your guests dietary needs with one amazing menu.

I love to have dinner parties for no apparent reason- just an excuse to get people over! My in-laws are avid meat eaters, so I love to prepare them a delicious vegan meal that they always love! They always make comments about how it might not taste good, but as soon as they take a bite, they realize it is some of the best food they ever had!

I love having a big crowd on Thanksgiving.

We love to have monthly birthday parties at our house. :)

I love hosting movie nights with friends, which almost always involve a potluck - and if we're creative enough we build our vegan dishes around the film or genre for the night. For example, one time we all watched "Murder on the Orient Express" and the requirement was to add one "mystery" ingredient for everyone else to guess. Dorky, no doubt, but we all loved it!

I prefer to entertain "just because", not necessarily a holiday but just because someone is happy about something good in their life or maybe to cheer someone up who is having a tough time.

Any time is great for a gathering with family and friends, especially Christmas!

I like entertaining and hosting dinner parties on a friend or family members birthday.

this would be great because it would help me with some new recipes for our family. We are trying desperately to eliminate all meats from our table.

I love entertaining around the Holidays. Everything seems so much more festive. I think even the food tastes better! Thanks for the contest!!

Love to have my daughters over to celebrate Hanukkah, I usually fix a nut roll

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is throwing a party.

People are always asking me questions about being vegan: Why? Isn't it hard? Do you get enough protein? But doesn't the food taste bad? Don't you think humans are meant to eat meat, the cavemen did it, didn't they? Hmmm?

When I answer their questions and explain why I am vegan (animal rights, environmental sustainability, and health) most people are curious & want to try some vegan food. There are some amazing vegan restaurants in New York City (Blossom & Dirt Candy are two of my favorite) and I've had vegan birthday cakes at my birthday parties, but it would also be great to be able to entertain my close friends and family at home and feed them my love.

My favorite time to entertain is when there's no reason at all, I just love getting people together so everyone can have a great time....it just usually doesn't happen in my apartment. I've cooked dishes so that I can eat during the holidays and brought food to dinner parties that my friends have had. I think I need to step up my game though...I'd love to have a dinner party in my own apartment and cook a full delicious vegan meal, for my close friends & family, with a beautiful setting and open, warm & welcoming environment. I want my guests to feel comfortable and encouraged to ask questions and be so satisfied with the meal that they want to become vegan too. I just need a copy of The Vegan Table to get started.

I like to throw parties where my guests can just have a good time-nothing too formal or proper, just having a few drinks and a good time [along with some yummy vegan dishes!]

Thanksgiving, most definitely!!

Thanks!

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Any occasion is worth celebrating when hectic schedules allow friends and family to get together and relax.

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is to celebrate days that have a sunrise. ;)

Thanksgiving entertaining is my fave!

we have family dinners for holidays and birthdays:)

I am having a housewarming party. It would be great to have it vegan.

I love to meet with friends and have drinks and snacks. I like to catch up and chat.

I love being around famly.

I'm excited about cooking healthier for my daughter with ADD. I also am having a party in just a couple of weeks with friends- just for fun!

we have a old girlfriend get together about once a year

Husband is planning a big Thanksgiving dinner with the theme: Turkey from the Sea, lobster, fish only, no turkey. Fine by me since I'm veggie but I need to plan dishes I can eat. Guests include the mother-in-law so I need some good ideas!

Our family likes to all get together on Thanksgiving and I need some new vegan recipes. Thanks for having the contest!

I love get-togethers that are just having a meal and catching up.

The only time we entertain in my family is for famil events, like Christmas or the family reunion.

I love to be around friends and family and entertaining with healthy foods is the most enjoyable way to share the love.

I entertain family and friends at least three times a year, Christmas, Thanksgiving and quarterly family gathering at my house.

We always have a huge Thanksgiving celebration.

Having a party to show off and share delicious vegan food recipes!

I am not a vegan, I am a vegetarian because my 17 year old daughter is vegan. I am entering to win because a book with vegan recipes will help us eat more meals together.

My favorite reason for entertaining guests is a vegan dinner party fit for foodies.

I like parties for holidays.

I love to cook and bake using vegan recipies and then serve it to my meat-eating family. Then once they've tried it I surprise them and tell them that it's vegan.

I love to have friends and family over just to spend time with them, eat good veggie eats and have fun!

I would love this cookbook! I'm always trying to convert my non-veggie guests.

I love entertaining guests especially if I have a chance to introduce my lifestyle to new people. I love to cook healthy and cruelty-free meals for people! Especially around Christmas, people are so open-minded, it's beautiful.