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.

Saturday!

Saturday Shopping List

1 stalk of Brussels Sprouts

another pint of Brussels Sprouts

1 lb of Lima beans

1 pint of red potatoes

1 pint of sweet potatoes

5 yellow onions

1 pint of white mushrooms

1 bulb of garlic

1 pint of cranberries

1 loaf of rustic white bread

a jar of strawberry jelly

1/2 loaf of banana sourdough bread

4 chocolate-banana muffins

Total spent: $31.39

We still had tons of carrots and a few sweet potatoes. We had plenty of beans already. A couple peppers and more red lentils for when I want to make the lentil soup again. Today we're eating leftover Tofurkey. I'm hoping these sweet potatoes I got today are the white ones. You can't tell from the outside, or at least I don't know how to tell. There's a scratch on one and it looks kinda white.

It's a gorgeous day out there. Chilly, low 50s, perfect weather for hats and scarves and sweaters. We're going to walk to Second Mile and see if they have any pretty things we want for the house.

Thanksgiving Part I

We're doing this again next week. But Friday is a great night to treat ourselves to something ridiculous to eat, because grocery day is tomorrow and we're running out of things. If we're going to have pizza or Ethiopian food or soy sausage and tofu scrambles, it's going to happen on a Friday evening.

Today I went to the actual grocery store (where they have foods to buy indoors, inside a building with aisles and cash registers - gasp), and bought... drumroll... a Tofurkey roast! What comes with it is the roast stuffed with stuffing and wild rice, and a gravy mix. I also bought some cranberry sauce, and we roasted the Tofurkey with potatoes and carrots.

I can't believe I get to wake up tomorrow and sip coffee and chill out until 10:00 and then go to the farmers' market. I was there week before last because of missing my math class, but I was trying to figure out how to get to math class and it wasn't the same relaxing experience it usually is. I haven't had my old, normal Saturday morning routine since the Saturday before Halloween.

I still can't really believe summer is over. This was a great summer for us.

Looking forward to repeating tonight's meal next Thursday. Who knows, by then, we might even have a dining room table.