Here at furyandfrost.com, we realize you have many choices when it comes to choosing the fare with which to feed your face. We would thus like to share one of our favorite foods, the oft-overlooked faux fauna (fake meats). With that in mind, each week we feature a fake flesh, including fotographs and ratings. We hope you enjoy the first part of our fifty two part series.

Celebration Roast

This is our first foray into the product line of the Field Roast Grain Meat Co, which claims to fuse Chinese Buddhist’s monk’s “Mien Ching” fake meat, Japanese seitan and European grains and flavors into their own “field roast.” The Celebration Roast is a hand-formed vegetarian roast, filled with a sausage-style stuffing made from butternut squash, apples and mushrooms. We found it for $5.99 at our friendly local Whole Foods.

The package is fairly hefty, so we ate only half of it for our feast. I don’t know much about preparing a roast, so I just baked it in the toaster oven wrapped in foil to keep the fragant juices contained with the roast. The packaging instructed me to flavor with gravy, but I can’t fathom making gravy so I drizzled the green bean sauce (a spicy Asian-style sauce) on top, and we finished out our fare with whole wheat cous cous for starch.

It may be a fallacy that we found this one as our first, because it turned out to be a favorite. I was an instant fan. It was fresh, flavorful and fantastic.