vegetarian duck: an amsterdam food blog.: high pressure system.

It doesn't happen so often around here, but sometimes when you're complaining/obsessing about some debatably minor thing suddenly The Great Magnet takes notice and says the equivalent of "Oh really? I'll give you something to cry about, how's this?" and turns up the shiny black knob marked General Suck.

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In situations like these, I find that it's best to make food that that removes your ability to focus on anything else. I made Ottolenghi's Black Pepper Tofu yesterday and indeed this is the man for the job: 8 red chilies, 2 tbsp of black pepper. I will probably make it again tonight, but with coconut oil replacing the butter. So the recipe might look something like this.

black pepper tofu.

400g firm tofu
fine cornmeal, to dust the tofu
coconut oil, for frying

75g butter or hopefully coconut oil
6 shallots or two small onions, peeled and thinly sliced
4 to 8 fresh red Holland chillies, seeded, deveined, and thinly sliced
6 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tbsp chopped ginger
2 tbsp crushed black peppercorns
2 tbsp ketjap manis
2 tbsp soy sauce
1?tbsp sugar?
4 scallions, cut in some decorative fashion

Serves 2 or 3 with rice.

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Source: http://vegetarianduck.blogspot.com/2012/07/high-pressure-system.html

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