The working woman's marinated tofu

[stgulik]

Tonight I get to show you how I usually marinate tofu ahead of cooking stir-fry. Most chefs on TV, you know, use Limoges bowls and cut-glass eyedroppers when they marinate tofu. Now for something completely different.




Before you leave for work, cut open a container of extra-firm tofu. Drain the liquid. Using a butter knife, slice the tofu into 1/2" pieces.

Pour about 3 tablespoons of soy sauce over the top, followed by about 2 tablespoons of the oil of your choice. Sesame oil is delicious. Flax seed oil has omega-3.

Add other stuff like ground ginger or minced garlic if you like.

Slide the container into a produce bag from the grocery store. Tie closed, carefully set in the refrigerator. Let it sit all day and think on its sins.

Here's what you get come dinner time:



Ready for anything!

Comments

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

I'm not much for tofu, but I so much prefer re-using things or re-purposing other things like plastic produce bags and twist-ties. Yes, I am one of those older women who keep a bag of produce bags and save twist-ties and grocery bags. But I also never have to buy baggies or trash bags. I prefer to get a few good uses out of packaging before I send it to the landfill.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

Exactly! As one of those other older women with bags of produce bags and little cups filled with usable twist-ties, I can relate. I've even been known to take the red mesh bag that oranges come in, wad it up and rubber band it, and reuse it as a dish scrubbie. But that was back in my ramen days.

[arcanetrivia]

I save produce bags and re-use them as well, but you do still have to toss them eventually. I keep meaning to get some of the fabric mesh kind that you can wash and reuse indefinitely.

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

I toss them quite frequently, but I always seem to have more. I think they're breeding in there! Unlike the grocery bags, which seem to have taken a vow of chastity; I sometimes run out of them.