The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Soft tofu, cotton tofu, silken tofu, firm tofu, tofu skins... if we knew the names of all tofu products, we'd name it all. But we don't. We do, however, have lots of tofu recipes including classics like the Chinese Ma Po tofu and Japanese agedashi tofu, as well as the more experimental ones General Tso's style tofu, and tuna and tofu spring rolls. And those are just a sampling. We've got more. Much more.
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is the stock made with bonito flakes and kelp. Hence, agedashi tofu. For me, it’s the queen of tofu dishes. Squares of fried delicate soft tofu served with a light salty-sweet sauce. Two characteristics make this dish stand out. First, the contrasting textures ... (more)
Made with a cake of silken tofu and a cup of leftover lumpiang shanghai filling, this dish has just the right amount of meat, crunch, sweetness, spiciness and saltiness. Hoisin sauce makes the meatballs and tofu deliciously sticky.
So, I mentioned the other day that I made a huge pot of broth by simmering scrap bones primarily to make my a la zuppa Toscana. I also mentioned that I poured the cooled broth into separate containers which went into the freezer. I will use the broth, one container at a time, when I ... (more)
My mother is arriving tomorrow and staying for a couple of days. She’s 74 years old, a retired trial court judge who still has a pretty active social life and who likes to go shopping as a form of exercise. Yeah, you read that right. She goes shopping to exercise. She says all that walking ... (more)
Some say that the appreciation for tofu is an acquired taste. You either like it or you don’t. Of course, that is being simplistic. What you like, or don’t, is not something that happened overnight. Rather, it is the result of years and years of eating habits which, in turn, are influenced by culture, economic ... (more)
One of the most widely known Chinese dishes outside of Asia is General Tso’s chicken — floured bite-size chicken pieces fried until crisp then tossed in sweet-salty sauce. This is the no-meat version using silken tofu. Instead of the usual onion leaves, the saucy tofu cubes were garnished with snipped cilantro and toasted sesame seeds. ... (more)
A little chicken goes a long, long way. Two well-seasoned chicken thigh fillets were cut into bite-size pieces, stir fried with garlic and ginger, tossed with silken tofu and blanched spinach. A drizzle of fish sauce, light soy sauce and lemon juice were added and lunch was ready. Sounds simple, right? And it is. The ... (more)
Ground pork and lightly fried firm tofu cubes make the base for this tasty and fast-cooking curried dish. If you aren’t into tofu, you can omit it. I added tofu because I love tofu and I find that an otherwise too-heavy dish becomes so much lighter and easier to digest when tofu replaces part of ... (more)
It has always been my opinion that to become a good cook, one has to be confident about his skills and taste. And by that, I don’t mean professional training. No, not at all. Rather, I mean the ability to think outside the box, to never feel limited by the lack of access to certain ... (more)
There is so much that needs to be said about these tuna and tofu spring rolls recipe. First, it is possible to generously feed four people using a 180-gram can of tuna. Second, tofu is a great extender. Third, San Marino tuna fillet in water is not so very tasty. I used a can of ... (more)
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
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In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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