Since I needed to slice some tofu for miso soup anyway, I whipped up the garam masala tofu scramble recipe I bookmarked a few days ago. It is AWESOME. It's such a unique combination of flavors, it's delicious. (Unless you're not a fan of licorice-y flavors in your food.) Couldn't find any fresh fennel at the grocery store, so I threw in maybe half a teaspoon or so of fennel seeds, which worked quite nicely. Even Tom said it's a great mix of flavors - just, not any flavors that he likes. Which I'd figured, I'd planned on this being a Melissa-lunch food.

I do wish I could find a better selection of tofu around here - even the "extra firm" variety of the one brand I can get in Fredonia gets pretty smushy pretty quickly. It does alright in this recipe, but it doesn't hold up in my soup as well as I'd like.

...good god, whoever thought I'd eat tofu enough to start getting picky about it. O_o;;;


In other recipe exploits - Tom is flipping out over the chocolate toffee cookies I baked. And my nutmeg-y sugar cookies are AMAZINGLY soft and cakey, and made for a phenomenal mini-sundae when paired with vanilla ice cream, left-over butterscotch chips, and a generous splash of butter shots. <33

I also went through and organized my giant pile of printed-out recipes today. I've been jotting notes on most as I try them out, rating them and making note of things I really like or Tom doesn't like, changes I should make, whatever else. I put them together into categories, and found a spare three-ring binder.

Then I showed Tom - who had been harassing me about not making him breakfast - the binder with papers stacked half an inch thick. "THIS, is how many different recipes I have made you. All noted and rated, whether you liked it or not," etc etc.
Tom: "...you're really in this for the long-haul, aren't you?"

But he was suitably impressed and a little awed at the amount of recipes, and went on to say that he really doesn't appreciate me half as much as he should, and I got several very nice hugs before he went to work. I win.


I am also having a field day with patterned-paper stock images, making a cover for my recipe book. Though I've considered digital scrapbooking before, I hadn't really tried playing around in that style much. It's quite entertaining - I just have like six different designs in my head for the cover, and I need to decide which ones I'm weeding out. ^^;;


eeeee I am so happy with this new layout. Tom even likes it! (Except he feels that the background should either scroll with the text, or the text should disappear once it reaches the top of the text-box area. I agree, but, an endlessly-long image is impractical for me, and I still don't know how to make the text disappear. Artistic vision once again takes a back seat to a lack of coding aptitude. :p)