I found this recipe for Mapo Tofu and instantly wanted to try it. I've had it before, and loved the spicy red sauce. The recipe calls for chili bean paste and fermented black beans. The first time I made it, Wegmans neither, and tried to substitute with stuff I already had. Fermented beans are salty, so I used pancetta. I didn't have chili ( Read more... )

I've posted about agedashi tofu before, but this time I didn't follow a recipe for the sauce, because last time I thought the dashi was way too fishy. I served it with some home made potstickers. We multiplied the recipe by 8 so that we had lots of potstickers to freeze.

( Agedashi Tofu and Potstickers )

This is actually from Saturday night. The assignment was to make an entree from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest or a vegetarian entree from one of your other cookbooks ( Read more... )

I like tofu. I try to eat it at least once a week. The key to making a good tofu dish is to allow the tofu to absorb the flavors of the other ingredients in the dish. I made three tofu dishes recently. One had a recipe that looked fabulous: a tofu scramble with spices, dried cranberries, fennel, and pistachio nuts, all things I really like. It ( Read more... )

I had some random tofu left over from other meals and didn't want to be wasteful, so I steamed it and made a sauce of sesame oil, soy sauce, and chili garlic sauce. I topped the tofu with some rice seasoning (the one I bought is a combination of seaweed, sesame seeds, sugar, and salt), and some sliced green onions. It took no time to make and was ( Read more... )

I've got three meals to post. Two of them were fantabulous and one of them was kind of meh ( Read more... )

While tincow was away, I experimented in the kitchen. I bought some tofu and made my nasty roasted tofu disaster with one half and this yummy soup with the other. I used instant dashi to make the broth, added some tofu, green onions, broiled shiitake mushrooms, and stirred in a few handfuls of baby spinach right at the end. I put some shredded daikon ( Read more... )

Tonight, I tried a yummy sounding recipe from eatingwell.com, Sesame-Maple Roasted Tofu. The tahini, maple syrup, and soy sauce based dressing was intriguing, and I like snap peas. I think that with a few changes to the recipe, this dish could be much better than it was. It wanted me to roast the tofu and onion for at least 15 minutes, and I did ( Read more... )