Cold Noodles with Apples and Pomegranate

My brother made this one right before autumn and I luckily remembered it and was able to take photos. This was the first time I had cold noodles- better yet cold noodles with apples, pomegranate, and tofu! This 

 

Ingredients

1. Package of thick rice noodles (these are seaweed/brown rice noodles)

2. Handful of pomegranate seeds

3. Sriracha sauce- keep this aside for later use.

4. Wasabi sauce, but you can use dried wasabi peas on the top if you prefer

5.  Cabbage- thinly sliced until you have a handful

6. Baked tofu with a fresh herb sauce:

• Pinch of Salt
• 2 or 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
• Squeeze of sesame oil
• 4 tablespoons of Sriracha
• Any chopped fresh herbs you want- Basil? Cilantro? Parsley? Almost anything works.

7. 1 lime

 

Instruction:

FIRST, make the tofu:

Make the sauce for the tofu by blending all of the ingredients and cover tofu in it. You can let this sit on the tofu to get the flavor in there or simply cover the tofu in this and bake it now. Heat your oven to 400 degrees. Cut the tofu in to cute and tiny lil' cubes and press a few paper towels over it to drain the juices. Place on a greased baking pan and cover it in the sauce. Once the oven hits 400, place the pan into the oven and leave alone for 15-20 minutes. Pull out and flip, leave in for another 10-15 minutes. While you're waiting, do the noodles.

 

 



Now the noodles:

Start boiling water for your noodles. Add a little sesame oil and a small pinch of salt into the water. Follow the packages cooking instructions from there. Dump into a bowl and place into the fridge for now.

 

Garnish/Toppings:

Slice the apple as you see in the photo, into little circles. You can cut those circles in half and leave some circle, or do them all in half. Whatever you want- just get the apple cut. Slice the pomegranate in half and spoon its guts and blood into a bowl next to the apples.

 

Plating/Putting Together:

Take the noodles out of the fridge and place into a bowl/bowls. Squeeze the sriracha any way you want to over the bowl.

IF using wasabi sauce: move over the noodles to an indent on 1/3 of the bowl squeeze it over this. Place the tofu on top. Add the apples next to/incorporated into that. Add the cabbage slices into a little teepee and use a handful of the pomegranate seeds over this. Avoid the tofu so it doesn't look to crowded.

IF using wasabi peas, place the tofu on one of the side and cover the entire bowl or around the tofu with the peas. Add the  cabbage in a little teepee and cover the rest of the bowl with pomegranate- avoiding the tofu.

Squeeze the lime over alllll of this.

 

Enjoy dude!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top 2 Drinks For Spring

Spring is here and that means you need to put away the cocoa mix.

Last week there was a foot of snow and now it's 60 degrees. If you're out with friends or have friends over, pick up an actually refreshing drink. These are my favorite two- Apple Ginger Ale and MAPLE iced coffee.

 

1. Apple Ginger Ale

 

This is mostly Thug Kitchens Agua Fresca recipe, so go check it out on their blog.

1. Juice a few apples, until you have 2 cups of juice.

2. Throw it in a blender with a cup of water and  juice from half a lime.

3. Add the tiniest bit of agave or if you want it EVEN sweeter you can add more.

4. Once that's blended, add ginger ale and serve/drink

Drink it straight out of the blender if you want to.

 

 If you're over 21 or within your household and have permission from your parents, a splash of whiskey (Jameson works best) makes this a great party drink

 



MAPLE SWEETENED ICED COFFEE THING.

DUDE.

If you've walked any sort of step for any sort of man kind on any moon or planet you've had iced coffee. Cold brew coffee. I don't have a recipe of my own and I don't want to feel like I'm copying someone so just look online. Add a small scoop of coconut cream or the white stuff collected at the top of canned coconut milk to a blender with a cup or two of ice. Dump in 2 cups of cold coffee. IF you don't want to cold brew coffee, use some old stuff but it's not the same. Add maple syrup- as much as you want for how sweet you'd like it. My favorite soy creamer is the one at Trader Joes. If I were to go back to a regular diet, I would still be using this stuff. Anyways, add 1/4 a cup UNLESS you like it more or less diluted. Blend and possibly add extracts like vanilla or almond for an extra kick.

Top with whipped coconut cream and anything from chocolate flakes to toffee chunks.