Culinary success!

March is going out like a lamb today. It's been beautiful and sunny, and I'm trying to stave off a sore throat. The Easter play is this weekend, and I'd really like to be able to, you know, talk. We've got dress rehearsal tonight.

I tried my first recipe out of Tofu Mania. The theme of the book is adding tofu to favorite dishes, rather than focussing on tofu as a main ingredient.

So I tried the mac and cheese. I was really pleased with the results. The cheese sauce, which uses soft tofu, was very much like a fondue and you pour that over your partially cooked macaroni and cubes of firm tofu. It was rather tasty, and smelled wonderful.

I also added cubes of tofu to my lentil soup this afternoon, which never even occurred to me before. I think next time what I'll do is use the soft tofu and use a mixer to puree it and add it in as part of the broth. Either way, since tofu has no flavor of its own, it worked really well in the salty soup (which also felt good on my throat).

I've been enjoying what few con vids are floating around out there, and since I don't think, by this point, anyone is going to post a "complete" (i.e., pieced-together clips to make a complete) con vid, I listened to the audio recording. It's frustrating not to be able to see what's happening when everyone dissolves into raucous laughter, but I must remember to take what I can get. I don't get to go to these things at all, so anything resembling first hand information (vids, audio, photos) is better than nothing. From what I've been able to see and hear, it looks and sounds like the guys were a hoot as usual, and quite relaxed and at ease. Also from what I've seen, dang they looked good.

Tomorrow's Thursday. Just so you know.