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I am going to a baby shower this weekend (helping prepare for it as well) and they are going to do chicken salad tea sandwiches. I need an idea for a second vegan filling that will totally wow everyone.

Needs to be with non-expensive ingredients, but that's the only criterion. Okay, GO.

there's a tempeh and asian pear sandwich filling in veganomicon that is really good or the tempeh/mango in vwav. curried chickpea salad with raisins or grapes and almonds is really delish! i think i've used a recipe from Joanna for that last one, but now I can't remember where it is, but you could base it off a curried chicken salad recipe.

I went to a tea party last year with all omnis and brought sandwiches on white vegan bread filled with Tofutti cream cheese and thinly sliced cucumber. No one knew it was vegan, since I didn't really know anyone there ahead of time and I didn't say anything, and they all got eaten up. Super easy and fairly cheap too.

I second the cucumber-Tofutti idea. And you can cut them into purdy shapes like this, look: http://veganyumyum.com/2007/03/cucumber-tea-sandwiches/

I'm having a tea party next month and I plan on making the cucumber-tofutti sandwiches and chickpea salad sandwiches too

Oooh, I second the v'con tempeh and Asian pear.

I also love the chickpea hijiki salad sandwich from VWAV, if you think people won't be too scared off by seaweed.

Honestly, once I just made pin wheel sandwiches (with wraps), with veggies/avocado, vegenaise, and a little bit of spicy mustard for a potluck, and everyone was freaking out over them. Sometimes less is more!

I like the idea of pinwheels! Our Chinese vegan place does fried veg chicken wraps with salad and a spicy mayo and avocado and they're addictive

This smashed chickpea salad sandwich, perhaps? http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/01/ ... pea-salad/
The colours are so pretty!

oh and this chickpea salad too: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/smashed-chickpea-avocado-salad-sandwich/

I don't have a recipe, but a tea house here does tea sandwiches with lemon edamame spread, cucumbers, and green onions. Fancy, but still familiar ingredients.

what about avocado and water cress with lemon pepper or BBQ jackfruit with vegenaise?

My favorite tea sandwich is an herbed cream cheese. 1 cups of basil, 1 cups of parsley, 1/4 cup chives, 1/2 lb vegan cream cheese blended in a food processor together. Salt to taste. (How much you need depends on the brand of cream cheese.) Better if it's allowed to sit and have the flavors meld, so I make it one day, and assemble the sandwiches the next. people seriously freak out about how good it is.

Is that fresh basil and parsley, DEG? I think that sounds seriously yum... and lots of these suggestions were awesome!

Yes, that's fresh for all the herbs. That would be a crazy amount of dried! I have been making that sandwich since long before my vegan days with regular cream cheese for the annual holiday tea party my BFF and I throw. People talk about those sandwiches all year.

I haven't tried the particular sandwich combo described in the link below, but I've made this mushroom walnut pate as a dip and it is utterly delicious.

http://urbanchickpea.com/2011/04/27/mus ... lnut-pate/

Almost everybody loves hummus, so maybe something like mini pitas stuffed with a bit of arugula and sundried tomato and basil hummus?

I just think mini pitas are adorable.

The filling from the Green Monster in the Garden sandwich from Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day is kind of chicken salad-y and definitely wonderful.

another vote to cream cheese and cukes! my sis and i made them for an omni bridal shower over the summer and people inhaled them!

Welllll due to the flu I ended up not going to this shower. BUT, thanks to all of you I now have a whole lot of ideas I can pull out. I am tempted to do a tea party just as an excuse to try some of these.

My friend and I made chickpea salad tea sandwiches and cucumber sandwiches (mixed fresh tarragon and fresh chives into the tofutti) for our superbowl party. They went over pretty well. I also did one with a tahini spread, sliced apple and arugula. It's probably my new favorite thing.

I love tiny food, especially finger sammiches :)

God, me too. What is it about tiny food? It's the best. I think I love it so much because I like to taste a large variety of foods in one meal, and tiny food makes that possible. Someone write a vegan tiny food zine. I will buy that shiitake.

Absolutely! The same food tastes at least twice as good in tiny form, plus it's cute! And getting to taste a bunch of different things is the best. Most big foods can be turned into tiny foods. I mostly serve tiny foods at my parties, so I feel like I should write this zine, but I'm way to lazy, or busy, or both. But, if I did write it, the zine itself would be tiny, like maybe 4 inches tall.

Someone buy me this to make my tiny tea sandwiches even awesomer: http://www.thelunchpunch.com/lp/index.p ... tch-munch/

Oh I MUST have puzzle sandwiches!