For dinner last night I made a tofu scramble with a whole lot of veggies. Michelle suggested we make a cheezy sauce from the Veganomicon (one of our favorite cook books) to put over the top. It was delicious.
This high protein meal included tofu, carrots, broccoli, peas, russet potatoes, a green pepper, and diced onions. I started with frying the potatoes, carrots and onions in about a tablespoon of olive oil until the potatoes were tender. Then I threw in all of the other veggies and crumbled a block of tofu into the pan and cooked everything until it’s heated through.
You’ll have to buy the Veganomicon for the whole cheezy sauce recipe. It involved some vegetable broth, flour (we used rice flour), a tiny bit of oil, garlic, nutritional yeast, tarragon, yellow mustard, and some turmeric. It is really good and thickens up like a nacho cheese.
Here is the end result:
It was so good, I added a little ketchup to mine which really add to the flavor in my opinion. Michelle lucked out and got to take the leftovers to work today.
I had a moment of inspiration last night. After peering into our fridge last night I discovered some Tofu and I decided to us it. Now, I have the tendency to season with the same herbs and spices so that everything sort of tastes the same, well not last night. I made Coconut Crusted Tofu and it was amazing.
You wanna know how I made it don’t ya? Well it is surprisingly easy and pretty darn healthy.
The ingredients you will need:
- 1 block of extra firm or super firm tofu
- some non-dairy milk or creamer
- 1/2 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- Salt & Pepper to taste
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place a cooling rack inside of a cookie sheet (you can see it in the photo above) and spray with some cooking oil.
Drain the tofu as much as possible, if you like you can freeze the tofu and then drain it, this gives it a nice texture and make it easier to drain. Cut the tofu into strips. Pour the milk or creamer in a shallow bowl (I used coconut milk creamer and it worked great). Mix the breadcrumbs and shredded coconut and place into a different shallow bowl.
Now place as many of the tofu strips into the milk or creamer as possible, just let them hang out in there. Take one out and dredge it in the breadcrumbs and coconut. Make sure the tofu gets nice and covered. Place the tofu onto the cooling rack which should be sitting nicely inside your cookie sheet. Repeat until you have run out of tofu. If you are starting to run out of milk or the breadcrumbs & coconut mixture you can always add a little more to the bowl. After placing all of the tofu on the cooling rack I sprinkled some salt and pepper on top which really brought out some of the flavors.
Cook at 400 for about 35 - 40 minutes, flipping half way through. Take them out when the tofu appears to be crispy and slightly brown.
It was awesome, we had it over quinoa with two sides; raw massaged kale and some roasted beets, turnips, sweet potatoes, and apples from Boston Organics.
Considering that beginning on September 1st I was gonna try and eat mostly raw foods for a full month, I went a little crazy on the last weekend in August and went in the opposite direction. One of the things I did was smoke tofu. I had never smoked anything before so this was quite a fun experiment, and tasty I might add. I found wood chips at our local grocery store and per the instructions soaked them in some water. Then I turned my attention to the extra firm tofu, I froze it, thawed it, and drained it. I then sliced the tofu into pretty thick pieces so they would not fall apart on the grill. For a seasoning I mixed together equal parts Old Bay Seasoning, Lemon Pepper, and Pepper that I dredged the tofu in.
It was then time to fire up the grill and get the soaked wood onto the coals.
Once they were smoking pretty good I put the Tofu on the top rack of our griller/smoker.
Let the smoking begin!
After smoking for 30 minutes I moved the Tofu to a different section of the grill so it cooked slower.
We also had some farm fresh corn from a CSA we picked up for our friends.
May I present to you our final dinner of smoked Tofu, grilled corn, and a mustard and vinegar based potato and cucumber salad. It was all amazing.
