How to make a Tofu Turkey

[Guest guest]

I don't quite understand.

 

The holiday is a holiday of Thanksgiving, not of food.

Commercial interests have converted Thanksgiving

into a struggle for celebrating material wealth,

prosperity, success, around eating lots of food,

typically a dead bird and other things.

However, there's no real reason to celebrate Thanksgiving

around food, although, if you want to do so, you can

have your own modest or elegant meal of grains and

vegetables -- or, if you want to make your OWN

" tofu turkey " - you do it this way:

 

1 - Make the dressing first.

2 - Build the " tofu turkey " " AROUND " the

" stuffing "

by

a - First blending 5-6 packages of tofu in a

blender,

b - pack the tofu slush around the egg-shaped

" stuffing "

3 - Shape the soy-breading artwork to LOOK LIKE a dead turkey.

(I find this objectionable, but I've learned to

think, and I've been

shown how to do this.) Put it in a

pan with a rimmed edge,

to hold fluid, which will drip from

the basting sauce.

4 - Make a soy sauce for the basting.

5 - Bake the artwork at about 400 degrees Fahrenheit

6 - " Baste " the artwork about every 20-30 minutes during

the

entire period. The basting will flavor the

otherwise bland

tofu, and the stuffing and its spices will

" seep through "

the tofu artwork, flavoring it throughout.

Tofu " takes " whatever surrounds it, or

borders it.

(Beware! That could be good or bad.)

Meanwhile, time the rest of your dinner.

Vegetarians and vegans typically enjoy

steamed broccoli (Vits A & C, fiber,

phytochemicals)

sweet potatoes or yams (good for

betacarotene)

brown rice (B Complex, fiber)

apple cider

good company, bright minds, good will

towards everyone

Please tell us how this " works out " for you.

 

Maynard S. Clark

Vegetarian Resource Center

Greater Boston area

info

 

At 08:26 AM 11/13/00 -0500, AEBARRA wrote:

i was thinking of having a

thanksgiving dinner for us veggie kids,

but kamil told me a tofurki cost like $40, eek, i don't have any money,

 

so i don't know how that would work out!!!

i hate thanksgiving!

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 11/17/00 12:11:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, vrc

writes:

 

<< The holiday is a holiday of Thanksgiving, not of food.

Commercial interests have converted Thanksgiving

into a struggle for celebrating material wealth,

prosperity, success, around eating lots of food,

typically a dead bird and other things.

However, there's no real reason to celebrate Thanksgiving

around food, although, if you want to do so, you can

have your own modest or elegant meal of grains and

vegetables -- or, if you want to make your OWN

" tofu turkey " - you do it this way: >>

 

Yes but some people have traditions that they like to stick y. I give thanks

for my family and it's nice to sit down with some nice food and share it with

my family. We never have time anymore to get together. So holidays are a good

time. And I buy Tofurky because straight and honestly I am too lazy to make a

tofu turkey! I don't have time with a toddler and being 7 months pregnant, I

can't cook myself and I hate cooking period. So eating food is not bad

thing, it's tradition and a way to CELEBRATE life and what we are thankful

for.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 11/17/00 12:11:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, vrc

writes:

 

<< Meanwhile, time the rest of your dinner.

Vegetarians and vegans typically enjoy

* steamed broccoli (Vits A & C, fiber, phytochemicals)

* sweet potatoes or yams (good for betacarotene)

* brown rice (B Complex, fiber)

* apple cider

* good company, bright minds, good will towards everyone

Please tell us how this " works out " for you.

>>

 

We stick with traditional foods that we grew up eating and just " veganize "

them. I can pretty much veganize just about anything.

[Guest guest]

Very nicely said.......

Jill

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<GeekGoddessMama

 

Thursday, November 16, 2000 9:15 PM

Re: How to make a Tofu Turkey

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