Another good reason not to eat meat: dead things fucking stink.
My adorable little asshole of a dog made a break for it last night while my son was taking out the garbage. I came home an hour later to find her on the porch, eyes all glazed over and staggering around like a drunk on a bender. Correction…she actually was a drunk on a bender. A fish gut bender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As she accompanied us into the house, my daughter started screaming about the dog’s smell and took off running. I figured she was just being dramatic, but the dog did appear a little moist. Yeah. Moist. More like absolutely dripping with entrails. I bathed her back to her normal smell, but the shame will never ever wash off. At least I’d like to think so. She still looks pretty pleased with herself.
Who wants to eat now? Ha!! I went on a small cooking spree on Sunday and made stuff we could eat throughout the week…another pot of lentil soup and some mini veggie quiches. I had some firm tofu in the freezer (got it on sale at Whole Foods and froze it for a rainy day! It has a really good texture if you freeze and thaw it!) so I marinated it using the Asian-Style Salad Bowl recipe from one of my new cookbooks, American Vegan Kitchen by Tamasin Noyes, and let it sit overnight in the fridge.
An Asian salad bowl is not the kind of thing Brad would normally love, but he had a soccer game that was going to prevent him from eating dinner with the family on Monday night so I figured it if he really didn’t like it, he could eat soup.
I sautéed the tofu in sesame oil until it was nice and crispy. The salad called for romaine lettuce (no dice, I was out so I subbed spinach. More improv. You don’t even want to know what happens when I’m out of toilet paper.), Chinese cabbage, carrots, bean sprouts, green onions, cucumber, red peppers, broccoli and snow peas. You make a dressing with the remainder of the tofu marinade and add fresh lime juice and peanut butter. I also added some agave syrup because I like my peanut sauce a little on the sweet side.
Brad LOVED the salad (He likes it, hey Mikey!) and so did I…crunchy and filling, awesome flavors. I can’t wait to make something else from her cookbook! Check out Tamasin's blog, Vegan Appetite. Lots of good recipes there as well!
I'm off to dis my dog!
