Although I don’t get if very often, sometimes when I get the urge for takeout I go for sweet and sour chicken, and invariably I wind up getting chicken fingers with thick, goopy syrup. (Your mileage may vary on that one.) I do like a good chicken finger now and then, but the sauce is a little too syrupy for …
Quicky Kinda Curry Chicken Salad
Sometimes those roasted chickens you can get from the heat tables (or deli) at the grocery store can be SO useful. (I still need to make stock out of the remainder of the one that made this chicken salad, in fact.) A caution about this recipe: I “cheated” and used a mayonnaise-based dressing from Stonewall Kitchens that I’d been given …
Marinated Tofu Scramble
Originally what I had planned to do was drain, then marinate some tofu to get flavorful soy cubes like the kind you periodically find in the salad bar. (Speaking of, does anybody know how those are made? They’re so savory and delicious!) Well, I sort of failed at that, but when life gives you less-than-firm tofu, you make tofu scramble! …
Totally Unhealthy Winter Comfort Food: Creamed Ramen
Today the sky opened up and dumped at least a foot and a half of snow on New Hampshire, and it shows no signs of stopping. After unburying my car in anticipation of lightening further shoveling work, I found myself craving all kinds of junk food. My solution to this problem was a quick and dirty ramen recipe that I …