Food and rain

It's raining. So here's some food!

This is the R&D for the beer-braised tofu that K and I are going to be cooking up soon.

The veggies: turnip, acorn squash, yukon gold potato, carrot, broccoli, golden beets, lemon, and a regular beet, raging with betacyanin.

Much cutting later, here are the veggies do a sauteango in the pan. Get it? Get it?

The fried tofu, about to get down with the veggies.

About to drop by for a drink:

No, it's not the best beer, but it was handy, inexpensive, and not bitter or super strong, so it wouldn't compete with the veggies.

Ready, set,

BRAISE!

The final product: beer braised tofu!

It was delicious, and definitely something I'll make again. Next time I'll skip the beet, as it colored the whole thing deep red. That pesky betacyanin, remember?

And here's last night's pre-dinner snack:

Before,

and after, with broccoli and garlic.