| Scrambled tofu! |
[11 May 2008|06:44pm] |
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One of the first things I ever looked to cook as a child was eggs. Scrambled eggs, over-easy, hardboiled. I made them all. Frequently.
Then, somewhere around seventh grade, I started hating eggs. I don't know what happened. Just the idea of putting them in my mouth made me sick. I hated them so much that one day when I forgot my homework at home and started sobbing and sobbing in history that I was going to get a zero on the assignment -- WHICH WAS NO FAIR! because I'd done the work -- and was then taken to the school nurse, and eventually home, I came back to school and told my friends I'd gotten sick and my mom took me to the doctor who said I was allergic to eggs! A few of them seemed skeptical. In hindsight, I think it's because they all thought I had The Cramps and didn't want to admit to it or something.
I kept that lie going for the rest of my time at that school. At sleep overs, I'd have to stay away from the omelets. You know. Because of my allergy. (I'm not sure that I've ever eaten an omelet in my life. I learned to make them my senior year in high school. But I'd cook them only for others. I never even tasted them myself.)
But a little over a year ago, I had something called Scrambled Tofu at a little hippy-ish restaurant in Portland. It was delicious! It's like, all the stuff I've been missing out on with eggs all these years. But there are no eggs included! I told my sister about this concoction and she duplicated it for me last Mother's Day. And then again, this Mother's Day! Mmmm. So tasty.
(In case you're curious, she used firm tofu, sauteed red peppers, mushrooms, black olives, onion powder, garlic powder, and ground black pepper. All this was "scrambled" in a skillet until heated through, then topped with cheddar cheese.)
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[11 May 2008|06:59pm] |
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I'm supposed to be rewriting my synopsis RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Naturally, I took a few minutes to put together an entry about scrambled tofu instead.
Now I've discovered the secret to why I haven't been updating this journal with quite the regularity as I used to; I haven't needed a reason to procrastinate from writing my fiction!
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