ingredients: tofu + sauce (I like Lao gan ma)
dishes required: spoon + bowl (optional tbh)
prep time: 90 seconds to transfer tofu to bowl and sauce to tofu, inc the time it takes to return sauce to fridge
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i recently started making this and it’s DELICIOUS and so versatile. fry some tofu with a sauce that u like (i use sweet chilli) boil a pot of water with soy sauce and ginger. when boiling add a vege stock cube and garlic and mix. then add in your veggies of choice (i recommend bok choy or spinach) add some chilli flakes if you like. once that’s getting cooked then add in noodles of choice. i use udon or pad thai rice noodles. add anything you want!!! then add tofu, garnish with green onion or bean sprouts and chilli flakes and you’re done!
Jan 14, 2025
• freeze block of tofu
• thaw block of tofu
• chop tofu and marinate in dry rub for chicken (with olive oil for lubrication) for about 4 hours
• bake tofu @ 350 for 40 minutes, flipping halfway
• start making peanut sauce from linked page
• boil water and make rice noodles
• add some kimchi, tofu, noodles to bowl
• drown with peanut sauce
It’s getting me through
Apr 3, 2024
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1 // DUBU JORIM
drain, pat dry, cut into squares, salt, set aside. finely dice jalapeno, yellow onion, garlic - mix with soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, sugar, gochugaru, bit of water. fry the tofu til golden brown on both sides, add the sauce. garnish with green onions.
2 // AIR FRY CRISPY TOFU
drain, pat dry, cut into cubes, place cubes in a large mixing bowl. add garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, honestly whatever else you feel like, splash of soy sauce, nutritional yeast OR cornstarch (the nutritional yeast does add a nutty cheesyness to it though). make sure the tofu is evenly coated. air fry at 400 for 10 mins, shake it, another 10 mins, shake it, and then another 5 ish (just keep an eye on how crispy it’s getting and stop when it’s to your preference). eat as snack or as salad topping!
3 // LAZY & ODEN STYLE
drain, pat dry, cut into cubes. in a pot, add water (however much you want to make as soup), instant dashi broth, fish cakes, maybe some chopped napa cabbage, and the tofu. eat when everything is boiling.
Apr 22, 2024
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I made a Goodreads account recently and it asked me to rate some popular books I’d read before. Little did I know, every time I ranked a book, it would give me 5 more similar to that one, and then 5 more from that, and on and on until a neverending phylogenetic tree of books emerged on my screen.
I was on FaceTime with my friend as I did this, and we compared which books we’d both read, ones we loved, ones we got forced to read in school, ones we read as preteens, etc. But half an hour in and no end to the Goodreads algorithm, but stuck in The Very Hungry Caterpillar-y children’s book branch of the algorithm tree that I couldn’t escape, I started to get mad. So I command-Q’d chrome and called it a day.
This week I went back to organise my To Read list and to purge all the loose one-book memos on my notes app. My professor recently gave me her recommendations on queer literature and I wanted to properly organise them. On my profile it said I’d already read some 100+ books and I’d given them all 5 star ratings. Ok well now that’s pissing me off. Why is there digital clutter on my brand new account, and why did I give all that information to them anyways.? I love to categorise, but did I really need to log my readership of the individual 39 Clues books?
I feel similarly about when I first downloaded letterboxd and it made me go down a similar never ending algorithm of potential movies I’d watched before. I did spend an unreasonable amount of time swiping through those movies trying to remember if I really did watch Horton Hears a Who in 2008(?) or not.
Why do I feel the need to share this with the algorithm? genuinely what purpose does this serve me? Why am I volunteering memories from my 7 year old self when I learnt English by reading Geronimo Stilton books for the first time?
Anyways, I deleted all the past data from my Goodreads account. There’s only logs from my current reads, and the list of books I want to read next. There’s comfort in organising and seeing your life laid out in list/grid categories, like unlocking achievements on video games - oh did you know I read so and so and yeah I was a pretentious little bitch in high school and every YA book I read in 2013 has gotta be logged and
But there’s another type of comfort in keeping that information away from the internet where they’ll find a way to use that data against you. I can‘t think of a single occasion I’d need personalised ads for the chick-lit books I read in primary school but I know the algorithm is going to eventually find a way to sell my nostalgia back to me somehow… I‘m going to open any of my little apps and see hyper specific #ad on my screen.
I know I’ve given so much of me away online already - and look what I’m doing right now(!) , sharing my interests and recommendations to strangers online hah .. I won’t lie about the fact that it brings me joy to live online - it’s been my playground for so much of my life - Like sorry I am literally the internet explorer -But there was a time before I lived on the internet. I don’t think they need to know everything about Then.
I recommend not giving up everything about yourself to the machine
Mar 8, 2024
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Holding a physical paperback is one of the Core Experiences of reading pleasure— but the option of having your book at all times, no matter the lighting, body position or situation, is going to make you so much more likely to read.
The way you can read for 5 minutes, text your friend, check notifs and seamlessly come back to your page is kind of brainrot but you know what. Idgaf :33
For me, the convenience of skipping a trip to the library and just downloading an epub file is one of the purest indulgences of instant gratification… very gluttonous but it feels very Nice
Mar 8, 2024
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Rawdog the sound of society while you walk… the tea is crazy
May 17, 2024