With my best friend we divide the two large meal holidays–she hosts Passover each year and I host Thanksgiving.

I was SO prepared this year! No last minute run to the grocery store for that one forgotten item (thank you Christmas Notebook!) and I had everything but the last minute stuff done beforehand and just needing to be heated up.  The day of Thanksgiving I just had to put the Vegan Roast into the oven, boil and mash the unpotatoes (to which I did add potatoes), pop the stuffed mushrooms in for 20 minutes, and make the gravy. I asked dh to make the bread the night before but he has a penchant for waiting until the last minute.

So all of these things were mid-swing and the lights go off . . . and on . . . and off . . . and on . . . and off . . . and off they stayed!  I called APS to ask if they were going to have the lights on soon or if they just wanted to ruin my Thanksgiving and then we had to figure out what to do. We decided to give it 1/2 hour and if they weren’t on we’d head over to my friend’s house with half cooked food and finish there.  Thankfully the lights came back on before the 30 minutes and we got back to cooking.  Unfortunately that stop in things left the bread and the vegan roast not quite able to cook all the way through–even with cooking longer *sigh*

Still–it was all yummy–and thankfully a Vegan Roast slightly undercooked is not as big a deal as an undercooked turkey   Of course when we went to my parents’ house later for dessert I ate a turkey and goat cheese sandwich and it was, you got it, slightly undercooked.  Yet another reminder of why I want to return to being totally vegan in 2009.  I might keep fish once a week for the Omega oils we get from them (I’m allergic to flax) but otherwise I don’t want to reorder meat when we reorder our food delivery.

Anyway–I hope you ALL had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I know our family has a lot to be grateful for