July 1st is the worst day of my professional year every single year. There is tons of work and stress and time constraints but, lucky for you, I just lived it and have no intentions of rehashing the whole thing. After working about 10 hours, I collapsed on my couch to watch some TV and turned on "Delicious TV Totally Vegetarian". After a few minutes Kay wandered in and sat down as well. She was so amazed by how these sandwiches looked, she asked me to make them. So this is what we had for dinner.
First of all, the "egg" part really looks like the egg on an Egg McMuffin. I was shocked. We had ours on toasted sourdough bread with fake bacon (which we LOVE!). When eaten like a sandwich, I thought it tasted pretty authentic and I don't know that I would have realized it wasn't egg if I hadn't been the one who cooked it. Kay ate one of hers as a sandwich and the other by itself. She thought it tasted more like egg in the sandwich than alone.
These were really easy to make. I'm not sure how quick it went but it is 5:40 now and I didn't stop working until 5:00 so within 40 minutes we watched the show, fixed the food and ate it. Not too bad.
Vegan Egg McMuffin
Actually this recipe is just for the egg part. You'll have to figure the rest out yourself!
1 pound firm or extra firm tofu
1 cup cornstarch
Pinch of salt
Turmeric
1 tablespoon coconut oil
Heat the oil in a large skillet.
Mix the cornstarch and salt in a bowl.
Slice the tofu into 4 slabs. We cut ours into circles because that's how they did it on TV but it would work just as well as rectangles. Dip each slice into the cornstarch, coating well. Sprinkle turmeric on one side and place that side down in the pan. Sprinkle the top with more turmeric. Repeat with other pieces.
Cook about 4-5 minutes per side until nicely browned.
Serve with toast, bacon, sausage, ham, cheese, or whatever else sounds good to you.
Kay: If you eat it plain it doesn't really taste like egg but if you eat it with fake bacon and bread, it tastes like an egg mcmuffin but a lot less greasy.
Dana: Unfortunately our home computer is in my home office and my work computer keeps beeping at me about new e-mails. I was tempted to ignore them since if I was still on the couch, I wouldn't have even known about them, but in the end, I couldn't so I'm back to work again. At least I got a dinner break!
2 comments:
These look, and from what you've written, taste really good.
Kay - I don't need to eat egg free but am always looking for ideas for friends. Hey - you got to see and spend time with your Mom on her "super busy, busy day"
Dana - well done - do you realise these are also great for the gluten free community? I'm not vegetarian, nor an egg or gluten free type, but still think yummo - great idea I must share with 2 coelaics, dear cousin here and dear friend in Canada.
Luckily gluten free is about the only thing I haven't had to deal with! For awhile they thought my niece might have a problem with it but in the end she was fine.
I don't know how I would have survived my busiest day of the year without Kay. She really is a big help and is very patient with the very tedious steps.
-Dana
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