This is Doris' favorite dish. We get it frozen from Trader Joe's and it's all she ever talks about. And sometimes she's lucky and she gets it from a restaurant. So I attempted (and failed) at making it myself using this recipe. The sauce was too runny, the tofu too soft. I think the sauce was flavorful, but needed to be much, much thicker. And the tofu should have been fried before soaking in the sauce because this is just tofu mush. Add to it that Karen doesn't like cooked carrots and Doris says "Ew!" every time she sees a pepper (which she used to like mind you...) and this just did not work for my family. But I think I'll try again with a different recipe. Now that I know what's wrong with this one, I'll know what to watch out for.
Modifications - I used canned carrots because I didn't have fresh. I used a combination of lime and lemon juice because I didn't have lime leaves and the fresh limes at the grocery store were just a joke. Sometimes it's just horrible to have Safeway as our main grocery store. And I left out the ginger. Instead of hot chili paste, I used hot chili sauce - the kind with the rooster on it. I served it over basmati rice.
Rice: 50 cents
Shallots: 75 cents
Garlic: 30 cents
Peanut butter: 50 cents
Spices: 30 cents
Hot chili sauce: 20 cents
Coconut milk: $1.29
Lemon and Lime juice: 75 cents
Brown sugar: 20 cents
Tofu: $6
Carrots: $1.29
CSA veggies: $2
Total: $14.08 ($4.69 per person)
A lot of money to spend on a meal no one liked.
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