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DIY Pumpkin Spice

October 11, 2013 by Lisa Le 6 Comments

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DIY Pumpkin Spice | alimentageuse.com #pumpkin #fall #DIY

It’s fall, and this weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, so there’s sure to be lots of pumpkin desserts to be had. In preparation for this, I decided it was high time to get a little jar of pumpkin spice for easy access for all the pumpkin-y things I’ll be making. This Thanksgiving will be the first where I’m going to try really hard at eating vegan with family. Typically with eating vegetarian, it isn’t so bad because eggs and cheese seem to be a huge component of my family’s vegetarian dishes around holidays, but with eating vegan, that’s a whole other story.

Vietnamese food is typically very vegan-friendly when my family is cooking. They know just to steer away from eggs and fish sauce and I’ll be fine because dairy is pretty scarce in Vietnamese cuisine. However, since Thanksgiving also includes the Canadian branch of my family, we’ll be adding a little North American tradition by roasting a turkey.

Turkey is clearly not vegetarian.

I think my family is really supportive of my choice to go vegan, but some of them don’t really understand it. Even Chris has questioned it and brought some interesting reasons why I shouldn’t go vegan, but I’m not forcing him to eat vegan, he can go to a restaurant and eat all the Cajun chicken burgers he wants, but I’m the cook so he’ll eat what I eat. (He doesn’t ever complain about my food anyway).

For me, cooking vegetarian/vegan isn’t the hard part, it’s going out for food with friends or going to events where they’re serving food. My choices are so unbelievably limited to salad. Don’t get me started on salad again.

My solution for this Thanksgiving? I’ll be cooking a vegan soup, a starchy side dish, and a dessert for my family, but also mostly so I have something to eat when we’re there.

I’m planning on baking a pumpkin pie, although I’m not sure how I’ll be making the filling vegan. I’m sure there are lots of recipes out there, I just haven’t found them yet. But I think I’ll be needing some more pumpkin purée for these desserts, so I may go and buy another pumpkin tomorrow to have enough purée for some other baking projects next week.

But as promised, here’s what I did with the strained pumpkin juice I had from the pumpkin purée.

 

Hot Spiced Pumpkin Juice | alimentageuse.com #fall #pumpkin #harrypotter

To make the pumpkin juice, I used the strained liquid from straining the pumpkin purée that I made yesterday and heated it on the stove with a tablespoon of honey and about 1/2 tsp of pumpkin pie mix. It depends on how big your pumpkin is, and how much liquid you strained. It’s a beautiful warm drink that’s spiced and reminiscent of my childhood imaginings of the Harry Potter world. I know it’s pumpkin juice, but I couldn’t imagine drinking it cold, and I thought it would be much better warm.

Mmmmm it was so delicious. A great alternative for hot chocolate or apple cider for those who don’t want either.

If you want to make this for a party or something, I would use pumpkin purée and water it down until you get kind of a thick apple cider texture, and add honey and cinnamon spice to taste. It’d be great out of a crock pot =)

DIY Pumpkin Spice | alimentageuse.com #pumpkin #fall #DIY

So there you have it. Pumpkin spice and a recipe for a hot, spiced pumpkin drink. Which, I also might add is super healthy for you and great for your immune and digestive system. Pumpkin is great for fibre and digestive system, cinnamon is anti-inflammatory, ginger is great for your immune and digestive system… and I don’t know much about the others but spices are amazing for you (well in small doses, which is fine for this recipe), so drink up!

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Pumpkin Pie Spice

Author: Lisa Le

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground allspice
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp ground clove

Instructions

  • Blend all spices together, making sure that there are no chunks and store in an airtight container.
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Filed Under: Condiments & Sauces, Drinks, Gluten-Free, Vegan recipes Tagged With: condiments, fall, GF, harry potter, pie, pumpkin, spice, vegan

About Lisa Le

Lisa is the thirty-something, nerdy, procrastinating, feminist blogger and photographer behind The Viet Vegan. She loves spicy foods, noodles, and food in bowls.

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  1. Kristin says

    October 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM

    Stopping by to spread a little Friday love! ♡
    Ty for the recipes!
    Have a great day!
    K-

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    • Lisa Mai says

      October 11, 2013 at 1:56 PM

      Aw thanks Kristin <3 You too!

      Reply
  2. iscribbler says

    November 4, 2013 at 12:34 AM

    Thank you so much for this recipe! I recently used it for my Pumpkin Pie and it was absolutely perfect! I love the amount of spices in this mixture and it worked well for me. Thanks for sharing! :)

    Reply

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