Everybody Walk
Oct. 16th, 2006 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceIt's Dinosaur season again, and hallelujah. Here's lunch:
On a base of brown rice, spread Default Tofu with associated pan junk (allot about 1/4 pound per person). Drizzle with miso-lime dressing, then top generously with gently steamed Dinosaur Kale. Add more miso-lime dressing and/or kale as you eat the bowl down.
Also known as Lacinato Kale, Italian Kale, or Black Kale. You can strip out the stems, leave them in, or do both; I like leaving in the stems until they get more than a quarter-inch thick. Have a light hand with the steamer, because you still want a little tooth in it.
Fork-whip a generous glob of miso paste (barley or red, preferably) in a coffee mug with enough lime juice to produce a slightly-but-not-too runny dressing. Lemon juice works fine as well. The pulp from hand-squeezing adds some nice texture, if you want it.
How default is it? There's a jar on my counter labeled "Tofu Dust."
Carefully squeeze most of the water out of a block of extra-firm tofu, then cut it into long, wide strips about half an inch (or less) thick. Heat oil in a cast-iron or non-stick skillet and add chopped garlic and ginger. Add the tofu once everything is bubbling in a friendly manner, and sprinkle both sides of the slices with a mixture of cumin, coriander, paprika, thyme, red pepper flakes, and rosemary. (That's right--tofu dust.)
Fry strips of tofu, flipping and rearranging occasionally, until they're nearly as done as you want. Then cut the heat and use the edge of your spatula to hack the strips into smaller chunks.
Skip the tofu and use quinoa instead of rice. It lacks the heavy, satisfying, check-me-out-I-just-ate-a-meal feeling that the tofu offers, but it'll more than fill your protein requirements, and it's especially great if you need to do a lot of physical labor afterwards. My sibs and I ate quinoa+miso+veg for lunch basically every single day of last summer.
Jurassic Bowl
On a base of brown rice, spread Default Tofu with associated pan junk (allot about 1/4 pound per person). Drizzle with miso-lime dressing, then top generously with gently steamed Dinosaur Kale. Add more miso-lime dressing and/or kale as you eat the bowl down.
Dinosaur Kale
Also known as Lacinato Kale, Italian Kale, or Black Kale. You can strip out the stems, leave them in, or do both; I like leaving in the stems until they get more than a quarter-inch thick. Have a light hand with the steamer, because you still want a little tooth in it.
Miso-Lime Dressing
Fork-whip a generous glob of miso paste (barley or red, preferably) in a coffee mug with enough lime juice to produce a slightly-but-not-too runny dressing. Lemon juice works fine as well. The pulp from hand-squeezing adds some nice texture, if you want it.
Default Tofu
How default is it? There's a jar on my counter labeled "Tofu Dust."
Carefully squeeze most of the water out of a block of extra-firm tofu, then cut it into long, wide strips about half an inch (or less) thick. Heat oil in a cast-iron or non-stick skillet and add chopped garlic and ginger. Add the tofu once everything is bubbling in a friendly manner, and sprinkle both sides of the slices with a mixture of cumin, coriander, paprika, thyme, red pepper flakes, and rosemary. (That's right--tofu dust.)
Fry strips of tofu, flipping and rearranging occasionally, until they're nearly as done as you want. Then cut the heat and use the edge of your spatula to hack the strips into smaller chunks.
20 minute version:
Skip the tofu and use quinoa instead of rice. It lacks the heavy, satisfying, check-me-out-I-just-ate-a-meal feeling that the tofu offers, but it'll more than fill your protein requirements, and it's especially great if you need to do a lot of physical labor afterwards. My sibs and I ate quinoa+miso+veg for lunch basically every single day of last summer.