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!