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Tofu Tahini Spread
Based on a recipe from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home by the Moosewood Collective.
Makes 2 cups.
- 1 cake firm tofu (3/4 pound)
- 2 tablespoons tahini
- 1 tablespoon miso (I use light)
- 1-2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 2 scallions, minced
- 1 carrot, grated
- ground black pepper to taste
Using a potato masher or food processor, mix the tofu with the tahini, miso, and 1 teaspoon of the soy sauce until well blended. Stir the scallions and carrots into the tofu mixture. Add black pepper and more soy sauce to taste.
Notes
I don't love the flavor of this just on crackers, but it does make a nice sandwich with veggies. Extra firm tofu also worked fine.
You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty
attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool
takes in all the lumber of every sort he comes across, so that the knowledge
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a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
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order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and
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-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"
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