Thanksgiving Part II - "We were very tired, we were very merry"

We made our second Tofurkey of the season last night. This afternoon, we feasted on leftovers.

What you see here is the Tofurkey ready to go into the oven. Around it, you see red potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, onion (and there are whole cloves of garlic in there, too, you just don't see them.) It's basted with a mixture of olive oil, orange juice, soy sauce, and seasonings. With it, we had stuffing and homemade gravy. Mark made the gravy. The stuffing was from a mix. The gravy has mushrooms and I don't know what all.

Here's a plate of food from last night.

Notice that it's quite different from last week's early Thanksgiving meal.

Two different, similar meals, two different kinds of day. Last week, it was an earlier, lighter meal. This week, we ate late at night after spending a long time preparing the meal, after taking a long trip in the rain to get the roast because everyplace convenient was out of everything or closed. We were hungry and then we got very, very full. And it was good.

Here's the preparation of last night's feast. Please excuse the messy kitchen.