Test recipe for Thanksgiving

This will be our first Thanksgiving as vegetarians. I started to feel the pressure that what would we be eating and how to not eat the meat products set out by family.

I asked my sister-in-law if it would be o.k. for me to bring something that my family could eat and she said "sure", phew.

Then I was reading a post on Facebook about how it is a lot of fun to bring vegetarian foods to dinner parties because it is fun to surprise meat eaters how delicious it can be. Now I feel confident that it will be o.k. and no one will mind.

Last night I practiced a recipe on my family and a meat eater guest and it came out delicious. I served dressing with mushroom caps on the side along with of course vegetarian gravy.

The recipe I used is http://www.everydaydish.tv/index.php?page=recipe&recipe=148, I added 2 tb. poultry seasoning. There was an additional part to the recipe using puff pastry, I did that as well.

I made gravy by making a broth using Vagetta (found in the polish section of grocery stores) and thickening it will a slurry of cornstarch and water. I also added 2 tb. of stir-fry sauce.

and just using stove top stuffing with of course add sauted diced onions, carrots, celery and mushrooms.

Well the consensus was - terrific, but... we all agreed that adding diced onion, celery and mushrooms to the roast mixture would add wonderful texture and flavor.

The meat eater at the table said that he would become a vegetarian if he could eat like this all the time.