tofu – Rainy Saturday Creative

Breakfast was toast. But by lunch I decided I had it with tofu and got tater tots. Still vegan but that isn’t why I am doing vegan, more on that in a bit. Dinner was Barilla Red Lentil Rotini pasta with a pasta sauce made with fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, spices, tomato sauce. Next time I will use canned tomatoes. I love red lentils and I cooked the pasta two more minutes longer than the package said, but the texture was still harder than Al dente in my opinion.

First let’s talk about emotional eating. Today it was like everything was being thrown at me and I couldn’t dodge any of it. I wanted all the food in the vending machine. Of course I didn’t have any. I am sure emotional eating is how I get to be obese and diabetic. Vegan is a tool to eat more fresh foods, though it can be done unhealthy like those tater tot’s. Still, how to deal with stress when you are chained to your desk with too much work to do.

My history with tofu. Before this year I had it 3-4 times at people’s houses and just HATED it. People would say oh you haven’t had it cooked right. Like how many times do I have to eat it before you leave me alone! This last year I have started following a lot of vegans on YouTube. One of them is Nisha Vora of Rainbow Plant life with her crispy sesame tofu. It was sooo good. But I made the mistake of making three dishes that featured tofu and it turns out I have my limits. I would be okay never touching tofu again. But it is good to know there are ways I can tolerate it.

I may get through all vegan tomorrow, but then I am done. I still want to incorporate more vegan meals in my life though and with the new breed of vegan YouTubers, I think that is quite possible.

I started off with toast for breakfast, but this morning I tried the vegan butter. I am a girl who loves real butter and won’t touch margarine with a 10 foot pole. I tried the Earth Balance butter and it was quite good. I also put some peaches on top. I probably won’t keep that up.

For a snack I did the gingerbread sheet pan pancake with peanut butter on top.

For lunch I did the Miss Kim’s Fried Tofu. I brought in all the components separate, tofu, sauce, rice. Yes, I have a hot pot at work, microwaves aren’t good for everything. First put in the tofu to try to re-crisp it. That didn’t work so well but it did re-heat it. Maybe I need to add a touch of oil. Then I put in the rice and sauce. Most people are still working from home, but my coworker and I have to work in the office but we sit far from each other. She came to visit my desk and said it smelled good.

I came home to cook a couple more things I didn’t get to on the weekend. The blistered green beans. I would say where from, but I would make so many changes it wouldn’t be the same. It was still good though. Then I made Wil Yeung of Yeung Man Cooking’s Ground Tofu Bulgogi. Just delicious! I had it for dinner tonight but this will be my lunch the rest of the week. The recipe called for 200 grams of tofu but my tofu block was over 400 grams, so I doubled the recipe. So glad I did. I love all the cooking I did, but I love this one the best. https://youtu.be/bOpzP0ldlBI

I think I am done cooking for a few days. I will still be posting what I eat everyday. Later this week I will make a pasta sauce to go with red lentil pasta I bought. I am just going to wing the pasta sauce recipe.