Baked Tofu

Yield: 2 meals for 2 people
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 40-50 mins

If you struggle with frying your tofu, try baking it. It’s super simple. If you love the texture of tofu at the Whole Foods salad bar or at most restaurants, it’s because they bake it, refrigerate it, and then cook it to order. So take 3-4 bricks on a Sunday and bake them for the week.

Get This:

• A cookie sheet, lightly oiled
• 2 bricks of drained tofu, cubed (How to Cook Tofu)
• S&P

Do This:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Place the cubed tofu on the sheet and season with S&P.
• Bake for 20 mins, flip, and then 20 more mins.
• Let the tofu cool before putting it in the fridge.

Baked tofu demands that you make it because it’s so easy. Don’t be proud. Bake your fu.
Be well,
Veg VA

Here’s your fu.

Slice it like bread.

Make carrot sticks

Turn.

Chop into cubes.

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We Three Kings be Stealing the Fu.

Foil or oil to keep it from sticking.

Space the tofu so it cooks quicker.

Coleslaw

It’s super easy. It’s a side, a condiment and salad. Eat slaw. Eat it because you’re a winner. And winners eat slaw.

You don’t need awesome knife skills to make great slaw. It helps, but if you have a food processor, a chopped slaw is sometimes better than a shredded one.

Get this

1. 1 head of cabbage (purple is prettier)
2. 2 big carrots
3. 1 Cup of Vegenaise (mayo if you’re not plant-based)
4. 1 Teaspoon of apple cider vinegar

Do this

1. Break the carrots into thumb sized pieces.
2. Pulse the carrots in your food processor until they look like rice.
3. Cut the core out of the cabbage. See pictures.
4. Add the cabbage and pulse until everything is about the same size.
5. Add the Vegenaise, vinegar and S&P to taste.
6. Pulse until mixed.
   

Don’t Do This

• Process the cabbage before the carrots—You’ll end up with pureed cabbage and chunky carrots.
• Use a blender—Use a food processor or a knife. Blenders won’t give you the texture you want.

Put it on

Veggie dogs—veggie burgers—tempeh tacos—fried potatoes—beans and rice

Coleslaw impresses people. Nobody knows why, but it does. It only gets better in the fridge, so make a bunch on Sunday and enjoy it through the week. It’s an easy way to get people to eat more plants. So make it and show off your new kitchen skills.

Eat more plants. Eat less flesh.

Be well,
Veg VA