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Saturday 15 October 2011

MoFo Day Fifteen: Quality Assured Braised Tofu Sandwiches!


  We had Enchiladas today topped with cheese sauce (a veganised Rose Elliot recipe for cheese sauce from her macaroni cheese recipe) and sour cream, made with plain soya yoghurt with enough fresh lemon juice to make it a bit tart. You need quite a lot of lemon juice because the yoghurt is slightly sweetened so you have to combat that with lots of tartness. We ate the enchiladas with a mixed salad and it was lovely; Pony and Mouse ate Quesadilla although Mouse insisted on being served some enchilada which then had to be chopped up for him and then, as predicted, lay congealing on his plate while he ate quesadillas, so they were completely wasted which I really hate.
  We've already had Enchiladas since we started MoFo so I'll tell you about what we had for lunch as well! We were feeling a bit bored of flat, empty sandwiches so we decided to have Braised Tofu sandwiches. If you aren't already familiar with braised tofu, you may think it looks a bit strange, the way it comes submerged in oil. I'm not sure why it comes like that; maybe braised tofu is highly reactive and has to be kept away from contact with air, like Caesium? We eat it with vegan mayonnaise (the best kind is Plamil Egg-Free Mayo with Garlic) and it is slightly reminiscent of t*na sandwiches; if you want to add a mild taste of the sea to your sandwich you can sprinkle some Nori on the tofu as well.
Braised Tofu ''Always A1''
   We love braised tofu and nori and that's why we sell them in our shop VegaNation; we decided when we set up our beloved vegan shop that we would only stock things that we love because that way if something turns out not to be a particularly good seller we can always eat it! Ok, that plan isn't going to work quite as well with our lovely Fair Trade tea set, or beautiful Fair Trade tisanieres but you get the idea! 
  The Braised Tofu is selling, so we have no need to eat it up for that reason but, as responsible shop owners we do occasional have to take tins from our stock for ''quality control''....

5 comments:

  1. I think I'm still a bit afraid of braised tofu, I mean, it comes in a can. But I think I'll pick up a can and work up the courage soon.

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  2. I love braised tofo, makes the best bolognese sauce -ever!

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  3. We always get that stuff, and I've never once tried in. I don't know how many years we've been getting it. Lindsay eats it, but I've never tried it. How ridiculous am I. Thanks for the post! Blessings! xox

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  4. Oh, we always enjoy doing 'quality control' on braised tofu- would definitely recommend it! x

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