Marinated Tofu with White Rice and Spinach

Hi everyone! After seeing lots of success with marinated tofu over at My cat loves Daiya!, I decided to give it a try. I used a modified version of the orange sauce from the veganized orange chik’n in Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food – I left out the canola oil and cornstarch (and the mirin, but I always leave that out) – as a marinade for a block of tofu that I’d cut into smaller pieces. Later, I cooked the tofu, still in the marinade, and used some of the leftover marinade as a sauce when I added the tofu to the rice & spinach. It turned out pretty good, and it was definitely an easier way to prepare the tofu, so I’m sure I’ll be making more marinated tofu in the future! Do you have any favorite marinade recipes/ingredients you’d recommend? 

Here’s Daisy, dozing dramatically… 

Peace. :)

February MiniMoFo: Food is Love

Hi everyone! February’s MiniMoFo theme is “Food is Love,” so I have two similar dishes here. The first is what I made for a quick Valentine’s Day dinner for me & Zach. He skipped the peas & carrots and only had the Gardein porkless bites and the white rice.

more veggies for me = love

The other dish I thought I’d include here is one of my favorites that I’ve mentioned countless times – the veganized orange chik’n from Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food. I love this recipe, but every time I make it, I try to do something different to make it a little more mine, so I added some turmeric to the sauce when I made it earlier this week.

orange tofu = love

leftovers = love

In other news, our ancient furnace died this week, and we were thankfully able to get it replaced yesterday. But we had a chilly Thursday night; here are where the kitties had settled in as I was getting ready for bed…   

Cringer still wanted to sleep downstairs like she usually does, so I tucked her in with Buttons’ favorite blanket.

Upstairs, Leela was already in the bedroom, hanging out close to the space heater that Zach had moved in.

And Daisy had curled up tightly on her folded comforter nest.

Peace. :)