Fun Recipe!

I LOVE Tofu!  And yes, I get mocked for it by meat lovers, but seriously... I don't eat lots of meat... chicken and fish sounds good to me!  One thing that I keep stocked up on in the fridge is a thing of firm tofu.  Normally, I just like to put it in a stir fry with noodles and veggies, but this time I opted to bake my tofu.  I googled baked tofu and found some strange recipes, but I also came across this amazing one!  I wish I would have actually bookmarked the site so I could go back to it, but instead it's going into my book of recipes that I am making.... if you follow my blog, you might now what I am referring to!  Basically, it calls for a marinade type sauce.  This one had soy sauce, sesame sauce, ginger... all kinds of YUMMY GOODNESS!  All you have to do is stir everything together so it's well blended, let the tofu marinate for an hour in the fridge and then bake!  If you want the full recipe, feel free to shoot me an email!  I served the tofu up with some fried rice {Hubby's request} and egg noodles {my FAV}. 

P.S.  See those super cute Japanese tea cups??  Charity shop!  Super cheap!  That's the way to shop on a missionary budget!  

Chinese Awesomeness!!

We celebrated Chinese New Years London style this year!  Tuesday before our Saturday celebration, hubby and I went to China town to see what we could find.  I have always wanted to use the bamboo steamers and make yummy dumplings, but I never purchased them because of their steep price.  While looking through the market, we stumbled across an end cap that had bamboo steamers!  WOOHOO!  They were sooooo much cheaper there than anywhere else I have seen them.  I also found the cutest pink shirt to wear!  The only picture I have of me wearing it, isn't the best for showing off the shirt, but I will include it anyway :)  With my bamboo steamers in hand (and some panda snacks) I set out to find a recipe.  I searched online and found this recipe.  (I subbed with gluten free white flour).  They took a little longer than I anticipated, but they turned out seriously GREAT!  YUM!  So, here are a couple of pics from the evening!   

{This photo is from the celebration in Trafalgar Square on Sunday evening}

~T

Excited!

The Problem:
I just have to say that I have loads of recipes floating around without any proper way of storing them.  A few years ago, my mum had given me a nice recipe binder which contained pockets to place recipes providing some organisation, but with all the accumulation of recipes it has run out of space.  What to do???

The Solution:
I am going to design my very own recipe collection book!  WOHOO!  So excited!!!  Tomorrow I will start gathering the supplies.  I am going to head up to Cass Art Supply and find a cheap sketch book.  When I was in there the other day, I saw some really inexpensive sketch books - spiral bound (although I haven't decided yet if I really want spiral bound... I have one more night to decide).  That will be my first purchase!  I will eventually need to get some rubber cement (they don't really have the same kind of rubber cement here that you can find in the states, so I will be trying out different kinds of glue that will hopefully do the trick!) and some cool paper!  I am going to look for that also, but I have noticed that you can find some inexpensive coloured scrapbook paper online.  Then I am going to let the creativity flow out!  I will try to post my progress as I go along so that you too can be inspired to organise your recipe collection!

Trista