Tofurky roast or (un)Turkey Feast for Thanksgiving Dinner?

[Guest guest]

I made a Tofurky and it was AWFUL. Never again!

 

 

Message: 10

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:29:03 -0000

" vegantwinmom " <sweetlock1

" Tofurky " roast or " (un)Turkey Feast for Thanksgiving Dinner?

 

Hi everyone! I havn't been here chatting in a while, my twins are now

in the full-blown terrible twos and I don't have time for anything

anymore, especially cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my meat-eating

family members. I want to serve a quick, convenient, vegetarian

roast and I need some opinions on which one is better tasting.

Tofurky or (un)Turkey?

My non-vegetarian family members have always responded well to my

past vegetarian dishes including veggie meatballs, however we have

never done a mock meat dish for Thanksgiving. Last year I served a

pasta dish but I would like to serve them something that seems more

like the Thanksgiving dinner they would usually have.

Thanks in advance for all your help!

[Guest guest]

I agree - Tofurkey wasn't tasy at all. And

it's so expensive. For the past seven years

my vegan family has enjoyed a great dish.

It has seitan pieces brushed with gravy,

covered with prepared stuffing, and then all

encased in a puff pastry. It is in keeping in

the turkey-gravy-stuffing tradition, yet is it's

" own thing " - it's trying to immitate turkey,

like tofurkey. It's delicious, and serves

eight to ten.

 

Vegan mom in Salt Lake City

 

>>> llugar 11/14/02 10:08AM >>>

I made a Tofurky and it was AWFUL. Never again!

 

 

Message: 10

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:29:03 -0000

" vegantwinmom " <sweetlock1

" Tofurky " roast or " (un)Turkey Feast for Thanksgiving Dinner?

 

Hi everyone! I havn't been here chatting in a while, my twins are now

in the full-blown terrible twos and I don't have time for anything

anymore, especially cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my meat-eating

family members. I want to serve a quick, convenient, vegetarian

roast and I need some opinions on which one is better tasting.

Tofurky or (un)Turkey?

My non-vegetarian family members have always responded well to my

past vegetarian dishes including veggie meatballs, however we have

never done a mock meat dish for Thanksgiving. Last year I served a

pasta dish but I would like to serve them something that seems more

like the Thanksgiving dinner they would usually have.

Thanks in advance for all your help!

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website

at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families

go to http://www.vrg.org/family.

 

 

[Guest guest]

I tried the Tofurky last week; it came in a new, smaller size. It was pretty

good, but not nearly as good as the Worthington Turkee slices which comes in

a frozen package like Grillers with two packets of 6 or so slices. It also

comes in a big plastic tube like bologna with several pounds unsliced.

Tofurkey is a bit rubbery like a lot of Loma Linda tvp products; the

Worthington has , to me, a much better texture and flavor. Worthington

doesn't have dressing and gravy as Tofurky does though.

---

Be kind. Be of good cheer.

Dick Ford

[Guest guest]

There is a really yummy vegetarian roast recipe in the Vegetarian Gourment.

It's covered in nuts and tastes much like a fancy stuffing. We love it. The

recipe is *huge* so I usually cut it down.

I only like tofurkey deli slices.

Lucy

Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia wrote:On Thu, 14 Nov 2002,

vegantwinmom wrote:

 

> Hi everyone! I havn't been here chatting in a while, my twins are now

> in the full-blown terrible twos and I don't have time for anything

> anymore, especially cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my meat-eating

> family members. I want to serve a quick, convenient, vegetarian

> roast and I need some opinions on which one is better tasting.

> Tofurky or (un)Turkey?

 

I've never had (un)Turkey, so I can't compare, but my family has always

enjoyed Tofurkey, even the committed meat-eaters. If you have a very

large family you may need to get two Tofurkeys, though.

 

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President, The Arlington Cooperative Organization

 

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three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the

purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each

nonexisted in an entirely different way ...

-- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad "

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

That sounds wonderful - would you mind sharing the recipe?

Thanks, Leena

 

 

Erica Lake [LDELAKE]

Friday, November 15, 2002 9:34 AM

 

Re: " Tofurky " roast or " (un)Turkey Feast for

Thanksgiving Dinner?

 

 

I agree - Tofurkey wasn't tasy at all. And

it's so expensive. For the past seven years

my vegan family has enjoyed a great dish.

It has seitan pieces brushed with gravy,

covered with prepared stuffing, and then all

encased in a puff pastry. It is in keeping in

the turkey-gravy-stuffing tradition, yet is it's

" own thing " - it's trying to immitate turkey,

like tofurkey. It's delicious, and serves

eight to ten.

 

Vegan mom in Salt Lake City

 

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