Most of the flavour is gone from it anyway because you've cooked and mashed it all out so I usually compost it. It's not going to add much other than a bit of substance to anything else. But if you wanted you could add it to soups or stews. If you don't want to use it right away it will freeze for up to 3 months. Hope that helps!

What can I do with the left over mash? It tastes great and I hate waste. I might try and do a pie or something with it. Watch this space.

Ha ha! So pleased you enjoyed it. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

WHY ARE THERE ONLY 5 STARS AS A MAXIMUM RATING? I FEEL AS IF I'M BEING CHEATED ON RATING THIS as this red wine gravy is EXCEPTIONAL! We've made it for our Thanksgiving dinner this year (2021). I'm going to put it onto mashed potatoes and I'm sure everyone else will think I'm nutz! If there's any left in the morning, I'll have one of my favorite meals... Pancakes and gravy! I Can hardly wait!

Ours came out not quite as thick as we'd hoped so we took a few of the veggies from the pot, put them into the blender and blitzed it and it thickened right up!

While I'm at it, y'know, you can take the remaining veggies and plate them along with a quinoa, black wild rice, pine nuts, pecans, dried cranberries and pineapple (we stuffed our pumpkin with that mixture) and it makes a spectacular dinner! Absolutely Spectacular!

My only regret, my cooking partner wouldn't double the red wine gravy recipe so I know it's not going to be enough... (I put a straw into the pot and sucked up a bit 😁 )

Absolutely delicious ? This will be my go to gravy recipe from now on. I didn’t strain it but after removing the herb sprigs I blended it. Thank you for such a divine recipe x

The only red wine that is not vegan are ones that are fined or filtered with non-vegan ingredients like egg white, isinglass etc. Many wineries don't use those and many wines are in fact vegan.
All food and drink could end up with random bugs etc in it. That's just life. The FDA allows a certain percentage of contamination from insects etc in all food/drink because it isn't realistic to think none would make it in there. It doesn't make you not vegan. If vegans lived like that we wouldn't be able to eat anything, even homegrown in case there was an aphid on a lettuce leaf or something, or even step outside in case we stepped on a bug.
Being vegan is all about doing the best you can not to cause harm to living things. You still need to live and eat though. We can't survive on air alone. Ha ha!