INFORMAL READER POLL: Should I rename this blog something like foodporn.blogspot.com? Rats: it's taken. And while I don't mean to be a hater, by someone who, as far as I can tell, only writes about food, doesn't post any images, and hasn't posted since the first Shrub administration. What's with that?
Okay, enough of this blah blah blah talky talky talky stuff, and ON TO THE FOOD PORN!
MISSION: make this unassuming staple of my childhood more interesting. With all due respect to my mom (who recently asked how much rearranging I do of the food I'm cooking for food porn picture taking, to which, dear reader, the answer is almost zero) I've outgrown Cincinnati Five Way Chili.
So start with the basics: throw some firm tofu and some onions in a pan, and get them frying.
Then get that bizarrely fresh and tender and thin and out of season asparagus that always seems to be available, and better looking, from Publix even though the same country of origin asparagus is also available from Whole Paycheck for twice the price. The carbon footprint for importing asparagus from Peru all year really sucks, but trust me: there's not much local asparagus in the deep south these days.
Flashes do strange things to clearcut asparagus forests.
Get the whole thing working, with nicely fried tofu, a little more than blanched asparagus, and pesky onions who seem to think they'll escape their inevitable fate if they cling to the edges of the skillet.
And here's the whole thing assembled, with some defrosted sun-dried tomato pesto that J made in the fall. Amazing stuff, incidentally, which I should really try to get the recipe for from her.
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