Chuck Bao
3/7/2009, 07:44 PM
Food for thought in a very bad economy.
I was in my neighborhood 7-Eleven, making my whiskey and diet coke and cigarette run yesterday and noticed this stuff for the first time and bought five tubes of it. Yeah, I buy most of my dietary requirement at the local 7-Eleven.
http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/eggtofu.jpg
I cut one tube into blocks and put it into a Campbell’s cream of chicken and mushroom soup for lunch yesterday and it was good. Campbell’s soup is like my main food source and I add fresh veggies, instant noodles, flour dumplings, etc. and now egg tofu.
This wikipedia site about tofu is a bit off-putting, but scroll down to the flavored and savory part. That’s what I’m talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu
Savory: Egg tofu (Japanese: 玉子豆腐, 卵豆腐, tamagodōfu) (Chinese: 蛋豆腐, dàn dòufǔ; often called 日本豆腐, rìbĕn dòufǔ, lit. "Japan bean curd") is the main type of savory flavored tofu. Whole beaten eggs are filtered and incorporated into the soy milk before the coagulant is added. The mixture is filled into tube shaped plastic bags and allowed to curdle. The tofu is then cooked in its packaging and sold. Egg tofu has a pale golden color that can be attributed to the addition of egg and, occasionally, food coloring. This tofu has a fuller texture and flavor than silken tofu, which can be attributed to the presence of egg fat and protein.
Since I like fried tofu, I again chopped one tube into blocks and fried it with some spicy fermented sausage (also purchased at 7-Eleven). That worked out pretty well.
It also means that I can now make one of my favorite dishes – spicy Sichuan-style tofu pork – like pork chili with tofu.
Anyone else into 7-Eleven tofu tubes?
I was in my neighborhood 7-Eleven, making my whiskey and diet coke and cigarette run yesterday and noticed this stuff for the first time and bought five tubes of it. Yeah, I buy most of my dietary requirement at the local 7-Eleven.
http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/kanunu/eggtofu.jpg
I cut one tube into blocks and put it into a Campbell’s cream of chicken and mushroom soup for lunch yesterday and it was good. Campbell’s soup is like my main food source and I add fresh veggies, instant noodles, flour dumplings, etc. and now egg tofu.
This wikipedia site about tofu is a bit off-putting, but scroll down to the flavored and savory part. That’s what I’m talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu
Savory: Egg tofu (Japanese: 玉子豆腐, 卵豆腐, tamagodōfu) (Chinese: 蛋豆腐, dàn dòufǔ; often called 日本豆腐, rìbĕn dòufǔ, lit. "Japan bean curd") is the main type of savory flavored tofu. Whole beaten eggs are filtered and incorporated into the soy milk before the coagulant is added. The mixture is filled into tube shaped plastic bags and allowed to curdle. The tofu is then cooked in its packaging and sold. Egg tofu has a pale golden color that can be attributed to the addition of egg and, occasionally, food coloring. This tofu has a fuller texture and flavor than silken tofu, which can be attributed to the presence of egg fat and protein.
Since I like fried tofu, I again chopped one tube into blocks and fried it with some spicy fermented sausage (also purchased at 7-Eleven). That worked out pretty well.
It also means that I can now make one of my favorite dishes – spicy Sichuan-style tofu pork – like pork chili with tofu.
Anyone else into 7-Eleven tofu tubes?