This is a blog where I'll talk about how I use my portion of my CSA share - along with recipes and discussion of anything else that's relevant to recipes, local food, my love of cooking and baking...
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tofu & green onion stir fry
This week has been a busy one - but I've still managed to use most of the veggies so far. The strawberries were eaten for dessert and on breakfast cereal; the peas were used in a soup, suggested by Kimberley, who left the recipe in the comments of this post.
Last night, our friend Z came over for dinner so I could have help eating some of the remaining vegetables. On the menu: stir-fried tofu with spring onions, and stir-fried bok choy. Believe it or not, the bok choy from last week was still good - fresh in its Ziplock in the crisper. The fact that they were still fresh gives you an idea of how old the vegetables are at the grocery store when they go limp and sad only a few days after bringing them home.
The stir-fried tofu and spring onion recipe came from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, and the bok choy recipe was previously posted here. Both were tasty; I had no idea how sweet stir-fried green onions could be. Would I make them again? Obviously the bok choy is one to be repeated, since I've already made it twice. The tofu stir-fry? Maybe - but only if I'm eating without P. In this recipe, the flavor of the tofu isn't supplanted by anything; there's only a smattering of soy sauce to overpower the soy flavor. I don't mind it, but it definitely wouldn't be up P's alley.
I made the Bittman scallions recipe tonight, but used chicken instead of tofu. Also used sesame seed oil instead of peanut oil. I halved the recipe and used too much oil, which made it especially delicious :)
My food philosophy: Eat the things you love; eat lots of different things; eat things you make yourself (or that someone you trust has made for you), and you'll come out all right. Ideally, eat locally, too, but I'm not militant on that front. I just do what I can, within my limits of time, money, and sanity.
And the name of the blog? It's how I remembered that the word "data" is plural - by substituting the word "cookies" for it. That could have been a clue that I was about to leave traditional academia...
I made the Bittman scallions recipe tonight, but used chicken instead of tofu. Also used sesame seed oil instead of peanut oil. I halved the recipe and used too much oil, which made it especially delicious :)
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