This afternoon I am headed to Northern Virginia to stay the night with my partner in crime and traveling buddy. We’ll wake up early to catch our flight and about 5 hours later will be in the sunny Cayman Islands and hopefully soon thereafter we’ll be relaxing on the beach.
Since I want some way to contact Isaac while I’m gone (it would cost $1.40 per minute to chat via cell) I offically decided that I am going to take my computer with me. But I’ve also decided I’m not going to post on EBF. I want to make the most of my trip by exploring, relaxing, reading, chatting, and disconnecting. I spend way too much of my time on the computer. I’m glued to the screen for 8 hours at work, then what do I do when I get home? Get on the computer. So I think it’s time to take a break. I’ll probably check my email once a day, but that’s about all.
Don’t fret I will be back with a ton of pictures and an awesome recap of the trip. With that said, here’s your last dose of EBF eats for a little while.
And it’s a good one, because last night’s dinner was amazing!! I was a starvin marvin when I got home from work so I quickly fixed up a baby romaine salad with home grown tomatoes, 1/2 of an avocado, honey mustard dressing, sea salt, and ground pepper. I also added my latest salad topping obsession – goji berries.
Call me crazy but goji berries reminds me of bacon bits when I eat them on salad. Of course they don’t taste like bacon bits, however the texture is certainly there. Plus they’re the only tiny red things that I’ve ever put on salad besides bacon bits, so maybe that’s it??
I ate my salad while some Oven Baked Tofu got crispy and made my whole apartment smell delicious. I told you all I was determined to recreate Ellwood’s oven “fried” tofu – the infamous fu that is in the bomb wrap. Well Jessy used to work at Ellwood’s and although I don’t think she ever found out the exact recipe from the store, she did come up with a recipe that replicates it well. Very well. I followed her recipe, however I had to make a few modifications because I didn’t have all the ingredients and didn’t have willingness nor the time to go to the store. Improvising I used bread crumbs instead of cornmeal and omitted the miso paste and stone ground mustard. Despite the slight changes, The tofu still turned out lovely!
The best part- I have some left for today’s lunch. If you interested in some delicious tasting tofu I would highly recommend checking out the recipe. Actually you’re sure to have a happy face after trying any of Jessy’s recipes – she’s a vegan culinary queen.
Well, I’m off for now, but know that I will miss you all! See you next week!
Brittany Mullins, HHC
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Your oven baked tofu looks like french toast fingers. Yummyyyy!!!!!! Great salad and I love how you added goji berries. I am going to try that out! Have a great day my dear!
Have a FANTASTIC trip Brittany!! You’re going to have such a great time!!
Yum! I want some of that tofu!
Have a safe trip!
have a great trip
Enjoy your trip! Unplugging is the best.
The tofu looks so crispy and delicious!
Have a wonderful trip
Oh YUM! That tofu looks delicious – I’ll have to give it a try!
Enjoy your trip and STAY OFF THE BLOGS
Everyone deserves a break!
You will be MISSED!! That tofu looks amazing and something I definitely have to try out! Have a GREAT trip and take lots of pictures for us to see!!
Enjoy your trip!!!! I wish I could say I was headed there!
That tofu looks unreal. I’ve made tofu similar to that recipe but mine never turns out so irresistible-looking!
HAVE FUN!
have a great trip! both the tofu and the salad look too good
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I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of scared of tofu. Your salad looks great though!
have an amazing time in the Cayman Islands! superw00t! i look forward to all the glorious pictures and the recap as well! yay! i hear ya on taking a break from the computer. we did last week at the beach. only checked e-mails about once a day or every other day – it was nice.
your oven-fried tofu looks most fantastical! i am sure if you tweak it out a little more you’ll totally have the recipe even closer ot ET’s! yay! keep us posted on your recipe – i’d love to have the replica! that ‘fu is so darn deeeeelish! oh, i forgot to ask – are you using the bulk Twin Oaks herbed ‘fu from ET’s? i figure you are – but i meant to tell you that’s the tofu they usually use – or sometimes they’ll use the Twin Oaks plain tofu when they’re out of the herbed on. i fo ‘sho need to try goji berries on my salad – i love the idea! mmmmmmmmmmmmm! thanks for the shout-out & the kind words! you rock so hard, Brittany! thank you!
have fun – and we’ll see ya when you get back!
Those tofu sticks look really great – so different from any tofu I’ve ever baked. I’ll have to check out that recipe for sure.
Have a great vacation!
that tofu looks amazzzzzzing!!!
Have a great trip!!!
That tofu looks out of this world!!!
I don’t know if you’re still in Northern Virginia and reading this, but that’s where I live, and since you are a tofu fan, I recommend checking out one of our MULTITUDE of awesome Korean restaurants (yes, Northern Virginia=Little Korea. Random, I know.)
I finally tried the goddess tofu wrap from ellwoods yesterday- OMG! SOOOOO FREAKING GOOD. would have never of tried it before reading your blog- thanks so much!
KK- That awesome. So happy that someone else gets to enjoy the goddess wrap as well. And I agree, it’s so freaking good!
Lele- thanks so much for recommending to check out the Korean restaurants. I actually went to school in NOVA and tried a ton of different ethic cuisine while there, however I actually don’t think I ever went to a Korean restaurant. Next time I’m up there I’ll have to check one out!!