One from the vaults

There have, in recent days, been a few recipes that I've noted for further investigation. Well, what am I saying, I have a list of such recipes as long as the arms and legs of several octopuses (I feel sure that should be octopi) but what I meant was that several have bubbled up to the top and made me think I should give them a go immediately.

So, after only 16 days, I've actually tried one of them. I give you Piquant Tofu Salad with Peas and Scallions which I found on the Threemanycooks blog. Apparently it's from a recipe book I don't have "The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone".

Anyway, it sounded just my sort of thing and I've been looking for a cool high protein tasty inclusion for hot summer day meals. Unfortunately I'm disappointed. It's o.k. and it's possible that the substitutions I had to make for missing ingredients like umeboshi vinegar just weren't up to scratch but I doubt it - I'm familiar with all the items I substituted and really don't think that's the problem. The recipe called so much salt and acid (from olives, capers, the plum vinegar, lemon juice) to flavour the tofu and peas that one might have been eating cardboard.

So call this one a fail, but by all means give it a go if you like the basic idea - it is, after all, extremely low fat and nutritious and might go well in a sandwich with a lot of fresh green leaves to offset the over seasoning.