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Episode 136: Samuel’s Smart, Late-night Tofu Spaghetti

September 18, 2016November 13, 2016 by Sara

cover136 This episode includes the following segments: The Front Porch and Ever-expanding Skill Set. This month, we’re cooking with mushrooms at Yin Hoo. One of my favorite dishes is Samuel’s tofu spaghetti — this week Samuel joins me on the podcast to reminisce about his undergraduate days as a philosophy major and to share some of his secrets for making an umami-rich mushroom and tofu rage.

FleeceWise

Fleecewise, the series, starts this week on the New Hampshire Knits podcast. Claire has some great interviews lined up. Continue by watching Sara of FiberTrek and Emily of Fibre Town, then join me here for the series conclusion just before Rhinebeck. There is something for everyone with this thoughtful programming. Join in the Ravelry conversation or ask questions of the podcast hosts.

Samuel makes a guest appearance on this episode. Several of you have been asking about an opportunity to hear the band, so here is a very special invitation. Bovine Social Club will play a Gospel concert and sing-along — unplugged and in period dress — at the Kingwood United Methodist Church in Stockton, NJ on October 2nd. Click the photo for more information.

The Front Porch

soxperiment2 — I’m trying Blackthorn needles and Knitter’s Pride Dreams to knit the Collywobbles pattern by Emily Estrada. This Fat Cat Knits yarn is the perfect combination of autumnal shades.

Ever-expanding Skill Set

Warren is the incredibly knowledgeable and helpful vendor of WoodsFresh mushrooms.

Here is the Lion's Mane mushroom. Can't wait to cook with it this week. — Here is the Lion’s Mane mushroom. Can’t wait to cook with it this week.

Samuel’s Tofu Spaghetti Shopping List

1 package extra-firm tofu
1 lb. mushrooms
2-3 cans organic tomato paste
1 box thin spaghetti
sharp cheese (Swiss, parmesan, etc.)
double-bottle inexpensive red wine

From the Pantry

butter / oil
oregano, basil, parsley
soy sauce or miso paste
garlic

One thought on “Episode 136: Samuel’s Smart, Late-night Tofu Spaghetti”

maggie leiterman says:

September 29, 2016 at 4:40 pm

Hi Sara, I wanted to share some techniques I use for cooking tofu. I am going to write it on the thread in Ravelry instead of here because I think more people participate over there.
maggie

Arrows and Doorways

The design for this super-cozy cowl was inspired by textiles in a hotel lobby. Concentric geometric shapes kept playing in my mind until finally I was able to chart the pattern and get it onto my needles. The interplay of this chevron-like patterning has a mesmerizing effect–while you’re knitting and when you wear the finished accessory.

Knit up a cowl with yarn from your stash, adding some magical new mini-skeins from your advent calendar, or exchange leftover yarn with a friend. The design invites frequent color changes, and makes an ideal knit for the advent season. It could be just as striking knit with two high-contrast colors.

While most cowls of this type are seamed within a band of a single color, this pattern incorporates a technique called stranded donut grafting, an incredibly clever and completely seamless graft that allows you to maintain colorwork patterning so that your starting and ending rounds are undetectable. Really! With many possibilities for color play and a new technique to add to your skill set, this cowl pattern is really an opportunity for knitters to level-up!

NEW PATTERN DESIGN!

ONE DARK BLUE NIGHT

This hat is the third in a series of patterns inspired by teachings in Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ Women Who Run with the Wolves. This time, I drew inspiration from Estés’ retelling of a Japanese tale, Tsukina Waguma or “The Crescent Moon Bear,” in which a young woman travels to the cave of an incredibly intimidating and ferocious bear. She makes several journeys to the cave, leaving food and quickly retreating, until “one dark blue night,” she musters the courage to stand her ground and ask for what she seeks--one hair from a moon-shaped patch on the bear’s chest--which she is granted. The young woman returns, triumphant, to the old healer who has sent her on this quest. She believes this single hair is the magic ingredient in solving the problem that plagues her. She holds it forth, but the healer tosses the hair into the flames. The young woman is in despair until she realizes the true lesson of her quest: that using her determination, courage, and patience, as she did with the crescent moon bear, will help her to confront the challenge at hand.

The moon phase motif of this colorwork hat is meant to capture the magic of a dark blue night--when the moon shines brightly overhead, the frosty air sparkles with possibility, and we succeed in summoning accumulated wisdom from deep within ourselves so that we can apply it to our own healing. Choose colors to conjure a wintery night sky, or select a palette of your signature colors.

Available on Ravelry December 20th.

Yarns at Yin Hoo

Episode 136: Samuel’s Smart, Late-night Tofu Spaghetti

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