earth food
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
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
tofu and wild rice
Ingredients:
- 1 pkg organic extra firm tofu
- 1 pkg uncle ben's pre-cooked wild rice
- thai peanut sauce
- "rooster" chili sauce
- some chili oil I found in target
- chopped garlic
- some powdered ginger root mixed with sake (about an oz)
Directions:
- put the tofu, oil, peanut sauce, chili sauce, garlic, and galanga mixture into a bowl and microwave it for 2 minutes (time may vary)
- when the tofu finishes, put the package of rice in for 90 seconds (don't forget to open the top of it, or it makes a disturbing 'pop' sound at about 63 seconds into the cook cycle :D)
- when the rice is done, put it in the bowl with the tofu, stir it up (w/ chopsticks)
- enjoy!
This is basically another one of my "meal-in-a-bowl" specialties - quite tasty! It would be good with some chicken or beef broth, too, but I only have 1 liter cartons of those, and didn't want to open one, since I'll be leaving before I could use it up, and the weather is not cold enough to keep it chilled once I take it out of the fridge.
Labels: chili oil, chili sauce, garlic, ginger, microwave, rice, sake, tofu
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