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Breakfast for Dinner

I'm not a stickler for only eating certain foods at certain times. I love having a bowl of cereal as a quick light dinner, eating pasta for breakfast and sipping coffee late at night. Generally the feeling is: eat whatever you want, whenever you want. The only major exception to this rule is dim sum; it's just not right having it at night. Dim sum is only for weekend brunch times. French toast at night: awesome. Mashed taro treasure boxes at 6pm: not so good.

Today was certainly defined by our consumption of "breakfast" foods. be woke up with a hankering for pancakes, so combined with our brown-spotted banana bounty he made a batch of homemade banana pancakes on his electric griddle. I never touch this griddle since it seems blasphemous somehow; i always prefer using my cast iron skillet but he loves the surface area and easy temperature control of the griddle. He used the pancake recipe from The Compassionate Cook which i used to use for my pancakes back in college. I like the recipe since it's simple, doesn't require eggs, buttermilk or unusual kinds of flour - a perfect recipe for college students without complete kitchens and pantries, plus it's vegan. be added some mashed banana, cinnamon and nutmeg to the batter. Although the pancakes looked and tasted great, i abhorred the doughy, gummy texture from the bananas. be claims he usually uses banana rounds, but decided to mash them this time based on the banana pancake recipe in another cookbook.

I snacked on random leftovers and chips for the rest of the afternoon, but decided i needed breakfast for dinner. Since The Compassionate Cook was out on the counter, i was inspired by the scrambled tofu recipe and made up a batch with toast and Boca fake sausages on the side. I've had scrambled tofu a few times and the dishes ranged from excellent to "watery mess," but this batch (my first!) was really quite good. Essentially it's a block of mashed firm tofu cooked with turmeric (for a bright yellow color), seasonings and whatever vegetables you want. We didn't have vegetables prepped so i just made a plain batch. I haven't had scrambled eggs since i was a kid so i don't really recall the texture, but i can say that scrambled tofu is soft and somehow buttery - a yummy substitute. Even skeptical be liked it!

posted by beXn @ 12:33 AM