food food food

On Saturdays, I usually go to stonebender's place, and I often pick up food I feel like cooking/eating on the way over. Today, I stopped for some polenta (I usually make my own, but I got some store-bought in a tube), spaghetti sauce, and mushrooms for lunch. Yumma. And let's see -- peach sorbet, Silk nog (I've been hearing good things, and man, was it good, but not cheap), broccoli, I don't know what all else. Yummy stuff, anyway. I've been having a rough weekend, and it was nice to have hot food to eat with my sweetheart. When I got home, I made more with the polenta I had in the fridge.

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Breakfast today (it is TOO still breakfast if you eat it at half past noon) was leftover sloppy-joe stuff on toast. Not bad. For lunch/dinner, I think I'll make a sort of veg "shepherd's pie", though I guess then it's a farmer's pie.

Is everyone else (those who celebrate Thanksgiving, that is) still eating T-day leftovers?

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I know a lot of folks think vegan versions of meat-laden foods are silly and affectoid, but gosh, was tonight's dinner good.

I made our favorite vegan gravy (which is essentially the method for the punk rock chickpea gravy in _Vegan with a Vengeance_, but without the chickpeas today). Then I mashed some potatoes with vegan margarine, boiled some cut-up broccoli, carrots, and onions for just a few minutes, and fried up some small tofu cubes.

Mixed the tofu and veggies together with the gravy, put it into a casserole dish, and topped with the mashed potatoes, and sprinkled some paprika on top as a nod to my mom. Baked for 20 or so minutes at 400.

Oh. My. God. So good.

Have you tried this gravy? sogwife said if she didn't know I was doing the vegan thing these days, she would have sworn this was meat-based gravy.

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Another batch of Struan is rising (triple-loaf batch, but this time I may make 2 bigger loaves from it). Struan isn't vegan, so I also have some onion bread in the dough cycle of the bread machine, and I'm going to make rolls out of that (both for someotherguy's hot dogs and my own uses). I am so happy that I can make bread now. I think I'll go toss some NYT dough in to rise, too, so we can have bread at Craft Night tomorrow.