Ingredients in my house
Cherry tomatoes, tofu, mushrooms, a full spice cabinet, butter, Olive oil, White wine, yogurt, cucumbers, onions, shallots, garlic
any suggestions?
Also, feel free to assume that I have lots of condiments, and other typical items from the kitchen.
Thanks to Hubski, I had a wonderful dinner. Here is what I made: I have two hubskiers that I borrowed from here, ghostoffuffle and kleinbl00. Both suggested variations on tzatziki sauce and I incorporated aspects from each. But basically I took fuffle's and added lemon juice and dill per KB's suggestion. (action shot with my new toy -emulsion blender) Then, I took a big ole stick of butter and fried some garlic in it and added mushrooms and shallots until they carmelized/sweat. Then I sliced my cherry tomatoes and added them too. Then I added in my couscous to that mixture. I took the tofu and dipped it in the tzatziki and seasoned it prior to baking it at 425* for 30 minutes. Then I plated it, and ate it: Seriously, a damn fine dinner. Thanks
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1) Slice cherry tomatoes in half. Dice a cucumber. Assuming the onions are purple; if so, dice one. If not, omit. 2) Grill tofu and mushrooms with garlic and butter, then poach in white wine to reduce. 3) Toss tomatoes and cucumber (and onions) in olive oil and balsamic. Add oregano or basil (fresh or dried), salt and pepper. 4) plate tomato/cucumber salad and top with tofu/mushroom ragout. If you can call that a ragout. NOTES: "Tofu" is an ingredient the way "cheese" is an ingredient. Soft? Semi-soft? Firm? Silken? What you have might not be grillable. ADDITIONALLY (1) pack Silken Tofu (1/2) pack chocolate chips (1 shot) Gran Marnier/Amaretto/Cointreau melt chocolate chips in microwave. Throw silken tofu in mixer. add liquor and chocolate chips. Stir, place in bowl, let set. Best, easiest, healthiest chocolate mousse you'll ever have. Bonus points if you put it in a graham cracker pie shell.
if you've got that fresh dill, you could make a tzatziki with the cukes, garlic, yogurt, white wine and olive oil. Creative application w/ grilled tofu (maybe w/ spice rub? Cumin, paprika, salt, maybe a tiny bit of allspice or something?) and fresh tomatoes? Grill those onions too. Anything that could stand in as a flatbread substitute, you got yourself some vegetarian shawarma...
Was just looking at this recipe last night, only reason I even thought to bring it up here. Serendipity, I say...
See, that's what I'm talking about. Never, ever, ever would I have thought to prepare that. I always think of yogurt as a cold application and not something to be used warm. That's high on my list right now as a suggestion. But please people, keep them coming. Thanks man.
I may actually still have some fresh dill in the house. That's a great suggestion, it would make a perfect side
I don't have any amazing ideas like some others in this thread. I much prefer baking to cooking. There is a website that I know about that might be able to help with your dilemma. You can search for recipes by ingredient, flavor, nutrition, occasion, and a lot of other stuff I don't really feel like listing.
This is extremly tasty and enjoyable. I don't know if this is a good cooking site, but it was the only recipe I found. Basically you get salmons together with some pepper and other spices and put them in one savoy cabbage "leaf", hackled and mashed of course, and then you stew them/or put them in a pot full of how water and cook them, but stewing is prefered (The most easy way is to get yourself a bowl and put in the pot filled with water and then close the lid
This recipe uses mushrooms, tomatoes and onions but also calls for green pepper (garlic and shallots probably wouldn't hurt either) and then you could make a cucumber raita to go with it.