Been watching a lot of Food Network's Chopped where the cooks have to take a basket of mystery ingredients and incorporate them all into one dish. I often have Julie take items out of our fridge and present them to me Chopped style, out of a basket, the cameras running.
This Chopped challenge: Fried beets (leftover, my friend Wendy made them, yum!), white button mushrooms, Pineapple tomato sauce (from Banyan foods) and the old standby, firm tofu.
I made a salad of the fried beets, red cabbage and bell pepper tossed with a quick vinaigrette. I battered in the tofu shake and bake style with flour, hot sauce, salt and chopped cilantro. The pineapple sauce is very sweet so I cut it with some soy sauce, garlic and sauteed mushrooms. Cooked the tofu in the sauce and lay it to bed on some rice with the salad encircling all of it. Very excellent.
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