January first began a thrity day experiment of eating exclusively non animal products (therefore excluding milk, cheese, butter, fish, eggs, beef, pork, chicken, snails, and rattlesnake, among others.) This also includes all manner of venues… such as when eating out, at parties with friends, and other social and non social eating arrangements. The dietary experiment doesn’t exclude coffee – a good thing. And even though the experiment officially kicked off on January 1, 2006, I’ve already headed a fair piece down this road by trying various tofu recipes, and have managed to become moderately successful in preparing a number of palatable recipes. Tomato salsas and other products have been wonderful in seasoning otherwise fairly bland tofu dishes. Tofu doesn’t seem to have much of a taste. When you think about it, neither does turkey or chicken – especially when served as cold slices on a sandwich.
Breakfast: Tofu Scrambler with onions, green peppers, Farm Fresh Whole Wheat Bread and vegan spread.
Lunch: Farm Fresh Ciabatta bread with Red Pepper Hummas, mixed fruit chunks, carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes.
Dinner: Vegan Lasagna – Morinu Extra Firm Silken Tofu slices sauteed in very little olive oil and then cooked in large cast iron frying pan with tomato sauce with onion, garlic, green pepper, then with WW lasagna noodles and a full bag of freshly sauteed spinach added and vegan pepper jack cheese spread on top and baked in oven for 30 minutes. Salt, pepper. Very good.