Corn Chowder

Since joining a CSA Sarah and I have made a lot of soup. To be fair I made this the day before we got our first lot of winter veggies to make room in our kitchen/pantry for them, but either way. Soup for days. Actually between all the different soups, more like soup for weeks. But moving along!

Butter! Melt it in a pot.

Onions and garlic! One onion. However many cloves of garlic make you happy. Because if there's anything you've learned about me thus far it's that almost every food should apparently have garlic and onions.

Stir occasionally until the onions start to get a little more translucent. 

Dust it with a little salt and a wee bit of cumin or curry or whatever you feel like would taste good in your corn chowder.

Dust it all with a bit of flour and stir.

Potatoes. Two or three big ones. Peeled. Diced.

Some milk. Some cream. 

CORN! Now in real life I'd just use frozen. BUT. I was making this so that I could use those five ears of corn that were sitting around. (side note: I do not love cutting corn off the cob)

I mixed 6 cups worth of Better than Bouillon with three cups worth of water and dumped it in. You could use this, actual bullion, or actual vegetable stock. I just used what I had. The other three cups of water I beat two eggs into well as seen below before dumping that in too. (I like putting eggs in corn chowder, it may give it a weird texture, but otherwise it's totally delightful).

Cook til the potatoes are soft and that's it! I stored ours in mason jars as pre-made lunches. Cause, you know the mason jar lunch is something we've been really into these days. Maybe Providence put a little hipster in us. Who knows. It's hella convenient though, I'll tell you that much. See you next Tuesday!

Peanut Tofu

And now back to what this blog (and my life) is really all: food. (Not really, but really). The other night I wanted to make something for dinner to accompany an acorn squash I had gotten, and I settled on using a block of tofu that had been sitting in the fridge since I was back in Providence (...so a while). I used my bff google to look up tofu recipes and settled on this one, because we had (or so I thought) everything on hand to make it, and quite frankly, it looked awesome. While it turns out I maybe didn't have exactly what I needed (including the time to prepare it correctly) it came out pretty great!

The tofu. So it wasn't until I started googling tofu while making this that I realized I actually didn't want silken tofu at all for this. Who knew? Apparently silken tofu falls apart/breaks much easier than regular tofu. I did end up with some odd shapes and had to be careful, but it all worked out alright. 

I didn't have quite the proper amount of time to devote to draining the tofu (also since it was silken tofu it also wasn't packaged in quite as much liquid. But hooray paper towels!

Surprise! We were just about out of parchment paper. But I suppose in true Tim Gunn fashion, I made it work.

The sauce was the reason I was actually excited that we had all the things, cause we had bought sweet chili sauce for some home made cup 'o noodle lunches a few weeks ago. so there are all the ingredients for the sauce (I don't really believe in buying soy sauce when I'm always given far more than I use to eat at one time with my asian take out). 

I left the tofu in the sauce to marinate on the counter while we went out so Sarah could vote and we could go to the library.

 When we returned home I put it in a skillet with some sesame oil, and fried it up! Then lets not be silly, we didn't have cauliflower in the house, so I made a mix of brown basmati rice and quinoa to put it on top of. I was worried that it for various reasons it didn't come out good, but turns out it was real good. Especially as left overs a week later (which I had with some peanut sesame soba noodles instead of rice). It also got Sarah's approval. All in all, I'd make this again, correct tofu, or not (if we're being honest...which I almost always am). yummmm. See you next Tuesday!

Midterm Elections

So today I voted .... BUT SADLY NO STICKER! So the internet provided me with this lovely image, but this year my ward was switched from voting in a public school to a church, which felt a little odd, but that's probably just because it's the first time I've voted at a different location, even though it was for the same ward and everything. Anyways, if you're in the US and you're a citizen over the age of 18 and you haven't yet, go vote! Mostly I'm sad I didn't see any of these signs around where I live:

See you next Tuesday!