February - 2017

Recipes

Matar Tofu

The first time I remember having Indian food was in Philadelphia when I was about 8 years old. My older brother was living there at the time, going to graduate school, and he was a vegetarian, so I have a lot of vegetarian food memories from my summer vacation visits to Philadelphia. Because my brother seemed impossibly cool — and he still is really, really cool — I would come back home to my mother gushing about the places I'd seen and, especially, the food I ate. I expect i

Toasted Tofu Alfredo

National Alfredo Day is February 7th, so when Bertolli asked me if I wanted to experiment with some of their sauces, the obvious answer was, of course, yes. My daughter absolutely loves pasta with Alfredo sauce, so it's typically something that is in my cooking repertoire, and I've also enjoyed making vegan versions of it in recent years using cashew cream. Because I'm particularly interested in the idea of pairing dairy products with tofu (something which many people think i