I love Thanksgiving. I love the fact that for one day, everyone sits down to a relatively similar meal. I love the flavors of the season. Root vegetables, stuffing, cranberries, parsley, sage rosemary, and thyme. I also hate Thanksgiving. I hate the fact that a holiday celebrating gratitude also has a second meeting of celebrating the slaughter of millions of turkeys. I like Turkeys a lot. And because I like Turkeys, I stating early on taste testing and perfecting my Thanksgiving menu. I mean the food I will bring to my family's Thanksgiving, that no one except me will eat, but I will enjoy knowing that no Turkeys were harmed in the making of this meal.
In years past I have focused my attention on the side dishes and relied on old faithful -- the tofurkey -- as my main dish. But this yearI think I'm gonna get a little crazy, and go for a stuffed seitan roast.
I used Isa Chandra Moskowitz's recipe. I substituted the shitakes for creminis, and the leaks with onions, and the bread crumbs with matzo meal. But other than that I stayed pretty true to the recipe. :)
The roast came out pretty good. However, I'm going to try it again with a stuffing that contrasts a little more. The mushrooms and onions blend in pretty well with the roast. Next time I think I'm going to try a cranberry walnut stuffing.
That looks, like every other instance of your cooking I've seen, unreasonably tasty.
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