We're delighted to share our Aunt Nettie with you. She's agreed to answer any questions you might ask about food, its preparation, and even clean-up tips. But we have to prepare you. She just might want to come right over to your house and help you fix dinner.
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One of our readers asked for a quick-fix dish since she's a working mom, so here's one of Aunt Nettie's treasures.
FASTEST TOFU IN THE WEST
When you come from work all tuckered out, you can still fix tofu tasty enough for all the farm hands to reach for seconds. Jest keep plenty of extra firm tofu on hand, and you'll be all set to cook.
- Start by slicin' up the tofu into 8 10 slices and set aside on a dish.
- Put the marinade fixin's into a 10" (about 25 cm) skillet and heat it all up. Add a few slices of the tofu, and cook on a high fire for 2 3 minutes on each side. Put the cooked slices of tofu on a nice clean plate and cook up the rest.
- Dress up yer plate with a fresh little sprig 'r two of herbs and serve with some baked or mashed potatoes, steamed greens, and a nice fresh salad.
I usually make up a little extra marinade and throw it into the skillet when it starts to run dry. If you don't mind usin' a little vegetarian Worchestershire Sauce, I think it adds a little giddiap to the flavor of the marinade.
Our Aunt Nettie has a head like a hard disk. It's filled with megabytes of information about food and cooking. And she's just itchin' to share her learnin' with city folk who live in mortal fear of the stovetop.
Aunt Nettie grew up on the farm. She did not eat out of a can or reach into the freezer. There was no microwave to pop her food into. Everything she made was from scratch. All the food she ate was natural, without pesticides. It was grown right there on the family farm, and she had to cook to survive. At eighty-three years young she still leaps and bounds around the kitchen and can shake, rattle, and roll those pots and pans with the best of them.
Nowadays, Aunt Nettie just shakes her head and complains, "Nobody cooks anymore They have no idea about puttin' a meal together." She's on a mission. She wants to help those younguns eat better so they can grow up healthy like her own eight kids.
