Ugly But Delicious Tofu ♥ Slow Cooker Recipe
Today's recipe: Tofu braised in a slow cooker in soy sauce, toasted sesame oil and other Asian-style flavors. Low carb. Weight Watchers 1 point for a snack, 3 points for a meal. Regular readers know that I'm prone to exclaiming, "Isn't it pretty?" ( See ?!) No chance of that happening here, with these mud-brown cubes of tofu. Ugh, how UNappealing. I couldn't bear for them to ugly-up a beautiful green salad. I wanted to leave them in the refrigerator to develop fridge-fur, justifying a fast trip to the rubbish bin. And then -- These ugly-ugly cubes called to me. Closing my eyes, I nabbed one cube, then another straight from the tupperware. They tasted great! And that's how Ugly But Delicious Tofu become my between-meal, protein-packed pick-me-up all this week -- now that's an eye opener. For portion control, I put aside three cubes measuring an ounce, otherwise I might have eaten the whole dish, all at once. Note the Escali kitchen scale which I pooh-