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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 494324" data-attributes="member: 259">In 1997, as part of a college course on agriculture in the US, I visited the tempeh factory (Turtle Island, I think?) that makes Tofurkey.  It was a new product at the time, and they gave us all little samples of the "drumsticks," really tempeh with wild rice and cranberries in a wild mushroom gravy.  It was really tasty, although not really turkey-like.I also tried making a vegan turkey one year out of seitan and soymilk skin.  Although you could've played killer dodgeball with it, eating it was out of the question <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.BFG, if your wife needs good vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving, point her over to <a href="http://www.epicurious.com" target="_blank">www.epicurious.com</a> (in fact, all y'all cooks oughtta head over there).  They've got some great ideas.  I particularly recommend their <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=15748" target="_blank">Roasted Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Tart</a>.  It's a very satisfying, rich pie full of Thanksgiving-y flavors.  My meat-eating family all loved it (although for them it was a side-dish).Daniel</blockquote>