Michael and I were shopping at our local co-op just past the holidays, and they had a sale on tofurky roasts. Maybe if you’re not a fan of meat analogues, you wouldn’t be interested in such a thing. But I have frequently looked at tofurky roasts, ultimately deciding not to pick them up because, well, they just seemed weird.
But Michael and I picked this one up, thinking we’d eat it for New Years day. Well, we neglected to check the packaging, and you have to thaw it before you cook it (just like real meat). Except where you can thaw chicken or beef in the microwave as necessary, you can’t do that with the tofurky roast. You have to thaw it in the oven, which adds two hours to the cooking time. So we put it off since it would have taken 3.5 solid hours of cooking time.. We’ve put it off since then, out of busy-ness and laziness, but yesterday Michael made it (we’ve had it in our fridge thawed since new years – which you couldn’t do with real meat, but can do with the tofurky roast).
He quartered two small yellow onions, cut big pieces of two orange carrots and one yellow one (I have to say, yellow carrots have a mild, sweet root vegetable flavor and miss a bit of the bitterness of the orange ones), and two potatoes, wrapped them up in foil with the roast and made a baste out of oil, soy sauce, and some spices (the baste recipe was from Tofurky’s website). It cooked for an hour and a half.
Michael served the veggies and the slices of roast with the mushroom and giblet gravy tofurky sells, which is actually pretty good in my opinion. Then we reminisced about how our mothers used to make pot roast in winter, and looked forward to eating the leftovers for dinner this week, since our attending the gym nearly every day makes cooking pretty difficult during the week.
In conclusion, I totally give the tofurky roast and gravy a thumbs up. It makes a good, hearty, home-style meal.
Yesterday we finally figured out we could close the storm windows around the house and did so. It went pretty quickly considering some of the windows are old, some of them were wedged in place, etc. But hopefully our heating bills go down now. The drafts are a little better.
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