{"id":3067,"date":"2009-01-26T19:32:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:32:55","slug":"january-26th-2009-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/01\/january-26th-2009-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"January 26th, 2009: Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight was leftovers and something new for me.\u00a0 This:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3066\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3066\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3066\" title=\"ohc-01-26-09_pressing_tofu\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_pressing_tofu-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"submit!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_pressing_tofu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_pressing_tofu.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">submit!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tofu.\u00a0 I am determined to try and see if I can like it.\u00a0 Especially since I&#8217;m sort of leaning more away from meat in general.\u00a0 As of right now it just doesn&#8217;t hold an appeal to me.\u00a0 I had a small bite of leftover chicken and I was just, &#8220;meh&#8221; about it.\u00a0 I in no way shape or form think I&#8217;ll give it up entirely because I do like it!\u00a0 Just now in small doses.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I bought some extra firm tofu and pressed the hell out of it for an hour.\u00a0 Then I made a marinade out of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teriyaki sauce<\/li>\n<li>Olive oil<\/li>\n<li>Mustard<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Powder<\/li>\n<li>Chili Powder<\/li>\n<li>Red pepper flakes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I sliced the tofu thin and it sat in the marinade for about 1\/2 an hour.\u00a0 Then I baked it at 400 for about 1\/2 an hour, flipping once.\u00a0 It resulted in this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3070\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3070\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3070\" title=\"ohc-01-26-09_tofu\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_tofu-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"tofu experiment\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_tofu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_tofu.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">tofu experiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nicely browned, firm to the touch, and crispy tofu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3071\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3071\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3071\" title=\"ohc-01-26-09_dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dinner \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/ohc-01-26-09_dinner.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">dinner <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The rest of my dinner was a baked sweet potato that I put a bit of butter on and cinnamon sugar.\u00a0 Roasted asparagus, and leftover veggies from yesterday.\u00a0 I took my first bite of the tofu ready for chewy goodness and it tasted like nothing.\u00a0 Not a thing.\u00a0 A sponge, like I was eating a sponge.\u00a0 Ew.\u00a0 I pulled out some BBQ sauce for dipping and that helped me choke some down but then I stopped.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to choke down my dinner, I want to love it.\u00a0 I was not feeling this tofu.\u00a0 I still have a bit left that I was going to try and make a BBQ sammie with tomorrow but now I&#8217;m not so sure.\u00a0 Perhaps tofu just isn&#8217;t my deal?<\/p>\n<p>But at this point I&#8217;m not focusing on that!\u00a0 One day down and only four more days to get through till <strong>MY FIRST RACE<\/strong>!\u00a0 We are currently supposed to be getting winter weather (more!) this week so I&#8217;ll have to see how that affects the race trail.<\/p>\n<p>Okay guys, off for a bit of <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Stick Fighting'>SF<\/abbr> class tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight was leftovers and something new for me.\u00a0 This: Tofu.\u00a0 I am determined to try and see if I can like it.\u00a0 Especially since I&#8217;m sort of leaning more away from meat in general.\u00a0 As of right now it just doesn&#8217;t hold an appeal to me.\u00a0 I had a small bite of leftover chicken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-Nt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}