peanutty tofu...

Tonight I made a family favorite. In fact, this was the first meal I ate after giving birth to our newest little one. Peanutty tofu never fails to please! It's simple.. I brown up the tofu with some ginger in a frying pan. Boil water for the noodles (udon or something similar). The pleasure is in the peanutty sauce! YUM>>
It's really easy.. just peanut butter, water, some ginger (fresh is best, powdered works fine too) and braggs liquid aminos (or tamari sauce or soy sauce). Sound simple? It is! and OH SO TASTY!

Tonight we had it with a salad. Greens, tomatoes, carrots, a handful of sunflower seeds, and some dried cranberries. I made a balsamic vinegar / olive oil dressing (simple, healthy and much cheaper than buying salad dressing).

peanut butter & bananas

it is a combination fit for the king.. it's good enough for me =)

actually, I have a long standing love affair with peanut butter and bananas. It started long before I knew Elvis loved them... my first pb&nana sandwich..yummm

My tastes have expanded, but sometimes the simplicity of childhood is the best inspiration for new dishes.
I am sure that I could do a weeks worth of posts on dishes with peanut butter alone (heh... that's not a bad idea.. I'll have to come back to that one in the future.) For today, I'll keep it simple and stick with one dish, one post.

Tonight we are going over to our friends' house for dinner. She asked if I could bring dessert. Usually, I'd make chocolate cake for dessert, but my friend is limiting her consumption of sugar. And the fact that this dessert will be eaten by kids at 7 or 8 o'clock at night makes the lower sugar thing a good idea all around. Last week when they came over I made gingerbread. It has sugar.. but the blackstrap molasses is high in iron and a better alternative to table sugar. BUT I DIGRESS>>>
this posts is about peanut butter & bananas.

Tonight's dessert will be a little something I created accidentally one day (the best kitchen creations often come of 'accidents'). Being willing to experiment in the kitchen is a cornerstone my frugal vegan self... I mean you have to be willing to try a recipe and futz with it. Take out the animal products and make it vegan... substitute something that you have on hand rather than running to the store to purchase what is on the ingredient list. (where I'll inevitably see other things we need, making the cost of the trip higher ... ) ((( Again... I see future post material here...)

so.. back to bananas..

Tonight I'll make peanut butter pudding with bananas on top. I might sprinkle a little bit of dark chocolate shavings in place of the chocolate syrup I like on this dish. It's also wonderful with a few strawberries...but it's winter, and I want to use things I have on hand.

I'll post a picture later.