Spicy Tofu Soup

Made this a while ago because I thought it would be nice to eat some tofu. Recently discovered the awesomeness of SILKEN TOFU. DELICIOUS SILKEN TOFU IN VEGETABLE BROTH! The dill adds an interesting dimension, although to be honest I added the dill because now i have used up all the Turmeric from making curries out of everything.

4 cloves garlic
2 carrots
2 tomatoes
2 onions
1 packet of Silken Tofu
1.5 Vegetable Stock Cube
1 tsp cumin
Some coriander
Chilli Flakes
1 tsp dill weed

1. Cut up all the vegetables
2. Fry all vegetable components in a bit of olive oil
3. Add the spices. If it is getting very dry at this point, put in a bit of water.
4. After onions and vegetables are slightly softened, add around 2 litres of water
5. Now cut up the tofu while its in the box. Then throw it all in.
   
6. Bring to a boil, then simmer for as long as you want.
   
7. DONE
   

Tom Yam Soup

NTUC sells "Tom Yam sets" consisting of the various things you will require to make a tom yam soup! I had never made a tom yam soup from scratch before, and I used very vague measurements for this, but it turned out brilliant. (with the total cost of ingredients being less than $6)

Along with 2 litres of water, I put in:

• Garlic, roughly cut up
  
• Lemongrass (the white bits were pounded into mash, the long hard green bits i left intact)
• Lime Leaves (torn up by hand)
• 1 lime (cut up and squeezed into the water)
  
• 3 small green chillies
  
• 2 dried red chillies
  
• about a dozen unshelled prawns
• a bag of fresh fishballs
• silken tofu
• tomatoes, sliced
• a sprinkling of coriander if you have some
  
• 1 chicken stock cube (if i could have used real chicken stock i would have!)

I put all the vegetables in along with the stock cube and allowed it to steep for as long as I could humanly bear, while I deshelled the prawns (i removed only the body shell but retained the head because the flavour is in the head!) and deveined them (all the gunk you find inside prawns!).

Finally after a long simmer, I brought it to a boil, and gently added in the tofu and fishballs followed by the prawns. You don't have to cook the prawns very long as they overcook easily, but cook them until they are pink all the way through. Simmer for a while more and serve.

Avantgarde Breakfast Starter

One day when I was very hungry in Berlin and P hadn't fed me in a while, I made a snack from the random food things in Gunnar's house.




SPAGHETTI MONSTER

Ingredients
Cherry tomatoes
Spaghetti
Salt and Pepper to taste

1. Impale tomatoes with spaghetti
2. Boil in water until spaghetti is cooked
3. Season and serve
   

The taste was exactly how you would expect a tomato and some spaghetti to taste like, however I guess it looked somewhat impressive.