Some Delicious Brown Food

So I remember, as a kid, that a meal like this was frozen, and quite a treat...Stouffer Turkey Dinner or something.  But at some point, I think Mom made it herself.  We would smother pieces of buttered bread with shredded leftover turkey and lots of gravy...wow.  After Thanksgiving, but also after other workday meals, this was one of my favorite dinners.  I'm telling you, this lived up to my memory.  Try it.

Why, yes, that is the worst food photograph ever blogged.  But it was damn good food.  And, no animals were harmed in the making of this ugly food...

To start, that is homemade whole wheat bread at the bottom there.  I followed the basic recipe from The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown.  The "turkey" is a thick slice of Vegan Dad's Smoked Veggie Turkey Lunchmeat (not just good here--eat it thinly sliced on sandwiches or see just how much your dog loves it as a soft training treat...).  And the gravy is a riff off of a Seventh Day Adventist recipe from an awesome book called Cooking by the Book by Marcella Lynch.  I wish I had made notes, because I changed it a lot and I wanted to post it here, but I didn't.  :(  I know I started with some onion in Earth Balance and made a roux, added homemade veggie stock and a little soy milk, and I know I added some Marmite, some soy sauce..and some other stuff...    But I bet a mushroom gravy would be even better.  What's your favorite vegan gravy?