Spicy Tofu and Pork on July 2
I was going to make gnocchi today. Bruce bought some nice russet potatoes over the weekend that I was going to use. I have yet to master the art of fluffy, light gnocchi. I’ve tried many recipes and many techniques all to no avail. When I told Bruce yesterday that I was going to try again, I could see his jaw tighten…..uh oh…is what he was thinking I’m sure. Anyway, when I went in the fridge this morning I realized that we had tofu that needed to be eaten before the end of the week, so no gnocchi tonight!
I whipped up one of the favorite tofu dishes to get over my disappointment: spicy tofu with ground pork. I served it with this green bamboo rice that Bruce bought in some gourmet shop a while back. It certainly is green, but doesn’ t taste like bamboo at all. We enjoyed some excellent kim chee, and finished the last of the snap peas (with garlic, ginger, green onions, and soy sauce) I had bought by mistake at the farmer’s market 2 weeks ago. Neither Bruce nor I are big snap pea lovers; I have a hard time getting excited about eating a pod. I had thought the peas were real English peas and bought 2 lbs of the darned things. We’ve been putting them in everything just to eat them and be done; we accomplished that goal tonight. We washed down the peas with a bottle of La Vielle Ferme 2008 Cotes Du Luberone (Bruce had leftover red wine to start which is what is in the photo: Robert Mondavi Meritage 2007).
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My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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looks like an amazing meal! I love trying my luck with different food and wine pairings. That really is what wine is all about. It’s meant to be fun and relaxing and served with good food. Cheers!