The other day I got some tofu at Trader Joe's (which BTW, a 19 oz block of organic tofu was like $1.70, remind me why I even eat meat again? Although to be fair its not like I ever really cook meat), with the intention of making either a curry or stir fry. Then the other Saturday I was hanging around the apartment and decided to try out this recipe, except I doubled it, using potatoes instead of double the tofu. So I started to blot the tofu (one thing I had learned in the past and remembered is a trick to cooking tofu is to get it as dry as possible before cooking it. Which is funny since it's always packaged in liquid, but anyways...).
At this point I realized that we were actually out of coconut milk. eek. So I hopped on my bike and found a convenience store that actually sold it. I returned to my apartment and cut up some potatoes and started boiling them in addition to starting to cook the tofu.
Now I have yet to figure out why stuff sticks to the bottom of this pan even though it's coated in a layer of oil. I just don't get it. But after cooking the tofu and taking it out and scraping up as much as I could that stuck, I added some more oil, and the spices and garlic. Now, since I was doubling it I looked at the amount of garlic and said, whoa 12 big cloves is gonna be a lot for anyone but me. So I only put in 8. I regret that for two reasons. One, I was actually the only one that ended up eating any of this. And two, it came out a little bland, so I think it needed that extra garlic.
Onions!
Mix it all up!
After it's boiled down a little. MMmmm.
Now like I said earlier, it came out a little bland. It also came out a little greasy. I added a little salt and that definitely helped on the flavor front. I'm not sure what I'd do to help the fact that it came out a little greasy, but to be honest, I'd make it again, it came out pretty good :) ...See you next Tuesday!
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