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These 24 Charts Are All You Need To Eat Healthy This Year. 15 Boxed Food Mixes You'll Never Have To Buy Again. How To Make Baked Tofu for Salads, Sandwiches & Snacks — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn. Baked tofu is magical.

How To Make Baked Tofu for Salads, Sandwiches & Snacks — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

When hot from the oven, it's crispy on the outside and creamy in the middle — amazing tossed into a stir-fry or just eaten as a snack with whatever dipping sauce happens to be handy. After the tofu cools, it becomes wonderfully firm and chewy. Now it's perfect for tossing with a lunch salad, crumbling into a sauce, or even slicing into a sandwich. Don't bother buying baked tofu again: Here's how to make it yourself, and make it even better. Error: Error loading playlist: No playable sources found Start with extra-firm tofu.

I like cubes for salads, rice bowls and stir-fries, and for making dishes like frittatas and sauces a little more substantial. If you're planning to eat the tofu right away, try tossing it with a little cornstarch before baking. Now let's talk about marinades. Tofu is brilliant in its blandness — it's a blank slate for any flavors you want to give it. Do you make your own baked tofu? How to Make Baked Tofu for Salads, Sandwiches & Snacks. 7 Things You Need To Be Making In Your Blender Right Now. 25 Dinners Even The Worst Cook Couldn't Mess Up. 26 Foods You Should Learn To Cook In Your Twenties. How To Cook Any Stir-Fry in Six Easy Steps. How to Easily Make Your Own Spaghetti Sauce. I am a spaghetti sauce junkie.

How to Easily Make Your Own Spaghetti Sauce

I just can never seem to get enough of it! Making your homemade spaghetti sauce is much easier than you might think, and packs a much healthier punch than the alternatives. Here's my recipe to get you started. You'll need: . Of course, you'll need a , and some . What is a spaghetti sauce without ? Begin by turning a large pot to medium-low. This typically takes about 15 minutes to prepare. You don't have to let this cook for hours if you are short on time. Feel free to add sautéed mushrooms in at the end if you want additional texture. You CAN use fresh tomatoes, if you have them. If at any point your sauce is not at the consistency that you desire, you can always add tomato paste to thicken, or pulse it in the food processor to thin it out. Once we started making our own sauce, we never went back to the processed version.

This recipe feeds approximately 6+ adults. Enjoy! 28 Ways To Eat Apples This Fall. 21 Meals With Tons Of Protein And No Meat. Homemade Taco Seasoning. What I’ve learned since I’ve had this blog is that are a couple of things that are considered taboo amongst the serious foodies: condensed cream of anything soups, food colorings, and taco seasoning packets.

Homemade Taco Seasoning

These things also tend to bring on a slew of strongly worded emails and comments. I never knew that food could bring out such anger. I totally get the condensed soup thing. They’re not healthy and full of sodium – but sometimes throwing some chicken in a crockpot with a can of something is what I have to do to have dinner done when I’ll be gone all day. The couple of recipes I have on this blog with condensed soups in them are actually some of the most popular.

The food coloring I think should be taken in stride. And everytime I post a recipe with taco seasoning in it I get a lot of comments like “ew“, “yuck“, and “so much unnecessary sodium“. Yes, It Matters What Kind Of Onion You Use. Five Minute Tomato Sauce Recipe. Let's talk about tomato sauce.

Five Minute Tomato Sauce Recipe

Last week in an airplane miles above the expansive plains of the mid-west, in the midst of a flurry of turbulence, it dawned on me that I've never shared with you my all-time favorite tomato sauce recipe. There's a story behind why I was thinking about tomato sauce on a flight, but I'll save it for later. I've included the recipe in one form or another in both of my books, but I've never gone into depth here on the website about why it is the little black dress of my cooking repertoire.

Now, I realize many of you have romantic notions of what a good tomato sauce should be. And I realize it is going to be a tough sell on my part to get you to make a break with some of those hearty, meaty, long-simmering sauces. Many of the spaghetti or tomato sauce recipes (in the U.S. in particular) include all sorts of ingredients. The first time you make this sauce I recommend spooning it over light, fluffy pillows of ricotta-filled ravioli. Print Recipe. 40 Creative Food Hacks That Will Change The Way You Cook.