Vegan Ambrosia

While I understand and respect the various objections to Thanksgiving, for me it is an excuse to cook and to eat particular kinds of foods, always with copious amounts of gravy.  This year, I had a nice, quiet day at home with my Tofurky.  I was so pleased with how everything turned out that I decided to post it here, after my long hiatus from blogging. Here is what I had: Tofurky roast with homemade gravy Quinoa with mushrooms Braised Brussels sprouts with maple walnuts Five seed bread (like this bread, but with chia instead of bulgur wheat) Apple custard crumb pie with vanilla Rice Dream I'll do my best to reproduce the recipes here, but keep in mind that I made them up as I went along, and so amounts are my best guesses. Tofurky This is for the small Tofurky roast (not the whole dinner package).  Remove the Tofurky from its plastic wrapping and place it in a casserole pan with a lid with large pieces of veggies (some combination of carrots, celery, on...

I got a bread machine some weeks back.  When I say "got," I mean I got one from a fellow freecycler .  It's used, but it works pretty well, except that getting the loaf out of the pan is a bit of a chore.  A lot of bread is left in the pan, and I don't love the hole that the paddle makes.  The breads I've been making lately have been collapsing. Today, I finally realized how to solve these problems: make the dough in the machine, and bake the bread in the oven.  Duh.  Now you're asking why I don't just do the whole thing by hand.  Well, as much as I've been assured otherwise, all the kneading and waiting and punching seems like just too much for me.  Anything that can make things easier for me is worth it. I had stopped taking photos of the process of breadmaking because I hadn't come up with anything good enough or interesting enough to share.  Until today.  That's why there are only photos of the finished product here. Put the...