Sweet and Sour Tofu with Mushroom and Cashews

[MacKenzie]

Decided to smoke the tofu for a little extra flavour, used the pot with cherry wood for 1.5 hours at 330F.

This is Thai tofu so it has some spices added.

After 1.5 hours of smoking-

Taste samples.

Marinating tofu-

Now for the veggies that get added to the sweet and sour stir fry-

the mushrooms 

and the toasted cashews.

Add the marinating tofu.

Plated.

 

 

 

Edited September 16, 2016 by MacKenzie

[dstr8]

You grabbed my attention with this one MacKenzie!    Many moons ago I was vegan (and 35lbs to the south of the scale's needle :D)...and in my hometown of Omaha Nebraska we had, back in the '70's, a small grocery owned and run by a Japanese family, and they made tofu weekly.   It was sublime and I've never had it as good since.   

I'll give smoking tofu a go and try this 'recipe' out!   

 

[MacKenzie]

Tomorrow I'll post the recipe. It is very tasty and anyone afraid of tofu could substitute chicken.

[tinyfish]

Looks wonderful but I would use chicken. 

[MacKenzie]

tinyfish, thanks. I think you might be surprised at the flavour of this dish. It has tons of flavour.

[Aussie Ora]

Looks fantastic I don't mind tofu on the odd occasion

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[MacKenzie]

Thanks, Aussie, you'd never know it was there with all the flavour flavour in that dish.:) 

[Stile88]

Looks great Mac but not so sure i would like the tofu i would prob use the chicken as well

[MacKenzie]

Stile, at least you like the look of it.   

[tony b]

Nicely done, MacKenzie. 

[MacKenzie]

For all of you who are dying to try this cook here is the recipe. It obviously is an old photocopy from a cookbook.

The only thing I did differently was to smoke the tofu and I left the toasted raw cashews whole.

 

[MacKenzie]

Thanks, Tony.  

[MacKenzie]

I decided to try out my new baguette brotform today, just used my regular sourdough recipe so I ended up with one baguette that fit the brotform and some leftover dough to make a free standing baguette.

Now all I need is some homemade spaghetti and sauce.

[tony b]

Yummy!!!

[MacKenzie]

Snack time.

 

 

[tony b]

Nice snack. What's the cheese? 

[MacKenzie]

Thanks, Tony, it is a Red Hot Mexican Chili Cheese.:)

[ckreef]

I'm not scared of tofu and yours looks awesome. I think it's time for you to get a cold smoker. I'm confident you could do one justice.

 Supposedly a few members have one but I've yet to see a cold smoke posted. Everyone seems  hung up on the air pump when less than $10 at Walmart or a local aquarium store would have solved that problem. 

[tony b]

Thought I'd posted my cold smoked salmon? Guess not, my bad. I've also done some smoked pork chops (no pics, as I had dinner guests). I promise my next cold smoker adventure will have pictures! 

[MacKenzie]

That is terrible, Tony, I got all excited when I started to read the post.

Here is what is left after my cherry tofu smoke.

BTW, I used a little flour/water to seal the edge but this time I wiped off the excess as it will burn and not smell soooo nice.:)

I don't epect this lump to have much heat value in it, it not very dense.  Maybe I'll use it to start my fire. 

Edited September 17, 2016 by MacKenzie