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grown from the page at earthside.org/Food & in support of the forth-coming cookbook of the same name by June Perg Floyd
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
tofu and rice
This can be prepared using a microwave oven and a rice-cooker - there are numerous other ways to accomplish the same basic meal, but what we used this time is:
- standard four-cup rice-cooker
- standard 1500W microwave oven
- Botan rice
- [reverse-osmosis-filtered - $0.39 @ Wallyworld] water
- 16-ounce package extra-firm tofu (the "cold-pack" kind)
- extra-virgin olive oil
- soy sauce (Kikoman)
- garlic powder
- ground (powdered) red pepper (cayenne)
- beef stock
(note 1: any and all of these ingredients have substitutes - email if you want a list)
Instructions:
- Cook some rice - 3 cups should be plenty for two people
- After the rice is ready, break up about half the tofu into a [microwave safe] bowl
- drizzle some olive oil over the tofu
- Add the spices to the tofu and olive oil in the bowl
- Pour in about 2 ounces of beef stock
- Stir the contents of the bowl and microwave it on high for about 60 seconds.
- take the bowl out of the microwave and add about a cup or a cup and a half of rice
- drizzle more olive oil and some soy sauce over the rice (the tofu is in the bottom of the bowl, under the rice, at this point).
- Stir up up.
- Enjoy
Labels: beef stock, cooking, olive oil, rice, rice cooker, tofu
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Dynasty Maifun Rice Sticks
From the Earth Food Labs:
Using a rice cooker (test model was a Black and Decker model from Walmart) to cook maifun.
- pour the entire contents of a 0.5 liter (16.9oz) bottle of water (Aquafina) into the rice cooker
- Switch the rice cooker on (i.e. plug it in and move the switch to the 'Cook' position).
- Once the water starts to bubble, add the entire contents of a 6.75oz (191g) package of Dynasty Maifun Rice Sticks.
- Place the lid on the rice cooker and wait for it to switch to "Warm". The maifun are ready to eat.
- It may help to remove the lid now and then and break the mainfun apart e.g. with a pair of chopsticks - making sure to stir them down into the water.
- Ideally, the rice cooker should switch to 'Warm' mode once the water is cooked out - whereupon the noodles are ready to be removed from cooker.
Notes:
- In all tests, the water was absorbed into the noodles as they cooked, so there was no need to drain the noodles after cooking.
- In a number of tests, the noodles started to stick to the 'non-stick' interior surface - since noodles stuck to the inside of the pot is an unacceptable result for these experiments, the rice cooker was immediately shut down by disconnecting main power when the sticking phenomenon was observed.
Labels: cooking, maifun, rice cooker
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