Amusing myself with my cookbooks...
Feb. 2nd, 2006 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kisthaSo I have a couple of tried and true (and totally experimentally originated) tofu recipes that I use. By a couple I literally mean 2. (OK 3) They all involve soaking the tofu in chicken broth* and then either baked in oil, deep fried in oil, or pan cooked in oil (I use virgin olive oil). All pretty similar. So I decided I'd have a look around in my vegetarian cookbooks and see what I could find.
I started with the heavy hitter: 1000 Vegetarian Recipes. How many recipes you ask? None. Not one tofu recipe in 1000. Seriously shocked I started an inventory and here's what I found:
1000 Vegetarian Recipes -0
Healthy Vegetarian Food -0
Easy Vegetarian - 1
One Pot Vegetarian Cooking - 2
Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cookbook - 3
Stunned and seriously annoyed I looked in the least likely book, a cookbook that I picked up for diabetic reasons, that looked good at first, then didn't and it's been languishing on my shelf since.
Vegetarian Express - 20!
Admittedly, not all of them are entree's, but at least there are some choices there. I guess I should get some Vegan cookbooks, so they have to use something other than cheese for the protein.
Silly me, expecting Vegetarian cookbooks to include Tofu. Ludicrous!
*yes, I'm not a real vegetarian - it's kind of complicated, but basically if I can identify it [i.e. - find tendons, blood vessels, or tell where it originated, great example ribs.] I can't eat it. One too many Kinesiology and Anatomy classes complete with cadaver videos. If I never hear a joint or connective tissue example that uses fried chicken again it will be too soon. It doesn't bother some people, but I just can't do it. I eat more actual meat if I don't prepare it, or pre-prepare it then freeze it. The only way I eat steak it in a restaurant.
I started with the heavy hitter: 1000 Vegetarian Recipes. How many recipes you ask? None. Not one tofu recipe in 1000. Seriously shocked I started an inventory and here's what I found:
1000 Vegetarian Recipes -0
Healthy Vegetarian Food -0
Easy Vegetarian - 1
One Pot Vegetarian Cooking - 2
Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cookbook - 3
Stunned and seriously annoyed I looked in the least likely book, a cookbook that I picked up for diabetic reasons, that looked good at first, then didn't and it's been languishing on my shelf since.
Vegetarian Express - 20!
Admittedly, not all of them are entree's, but at least there are some choices there. I guess I should get some Vegan cookbooks, so they have to use something other than cheese for the protein.
Silly me, expecting Vegetarian cookbooks to include Tofu. Ludicrous!
*yes, I'm not a real vegetarian - it's kind of complicated, but basically if I can identify it [i.e. - find tendons, blood vessels, or tell where it originated, great example ribs.] I can't eat it. One too many Kinesiology and Anatomy classes complete with cadaver videos. If I never hear a joint or connective tissue example that uses fried chicken again it will be too soon. It doesn't bother some people, but I just can't do it. I eat more actual meat if I don't prepare it, or pre-prepare it then freeze it. The only way I eat steak it in a restaurant.
