This is the 'tofu' (in place of meat) of the 3-recipe dinner I prepared this evening. I hit Whole Foods on way home from work and picked up everything I needed. Except for garlic cloves to mince - my eyes somehow went blind on that item when re-reading the ingredients list at least 4 times to make store list. I used trusty old McCormick's garlic powder, blasphemous I know. But I did zest and squeeze the juice from organic oranges, and purchased pure maple (read: expensive) syrup rather than use the Log Cabin and Mrs Butterworth's copiously available in my pantry. I liked that I was instructed to prepare marinade in the same dish I would be adding the tofu to and baking it in, the fewer dishes the better. Thankfully my selective blindness did not keep me from noticing the 1 hour marinate step in this recipe. Knowing that ahead of time, I started there and then went on to prepare the Coconut-Lime Basmati Rice, which had to cook for ~ 40 minutes. The whole 3-recipe process reminded me that while I love my children more than I love oxygen, this is the sort of production I save for when they are elsewhere (as they were tonight) ;)
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