It’s always sort of awkward when I follow up a serious post with a more lighthearted one about food, but that’s just how it goes sometimes. And thank you everyone who left a comment yesterday. I appreciate it. Anyway, back to the lighthearted food. After I determined that I didn’t really like the Forks Over Knives Cookbook, I decided I should actually make some stuff from it before retiring it to the bad cookbook graveyard.
The white bean chili that I made (with black beans) was just so-so but I gave the cookbook one more shot last night and made some basil pesto. The recipe was very easy – basil, silken tofu, garlic, lemon juice and nutritional yeast. You could also use pine nuts for a more authentic pesto taste, but I skipped them.
This didn’t really taste like pesto. The basil flavor was there, but the consistency made it more like a green goddess dressing. That said, it was still pretty awesome and I’ve been putting it on everything today.
Pesto eggs for breakfast (please ignore the fact that I apparently don’t know how to focus a camera before I’ve had my coffee):
Huge bowl of salad with pesto dressing for dinner:
I could also see this making a good spread for a sandwich or, if you’re more traditional, a sauce for pasta. That cookbook is not getting retired quite yet. It redeemed itself with this one. We shall see.
You’re right– that doesn’t really look like pesto…but it still looks really tasty!
The pesto and eggs looks great!
That sounds really, really good! I may have to beg you for that recipe.
I like the idea of replacing the oil in pesto with something lighter, but can you taste the tofu? I hate the taste and find or hard to hide. I’d love to hear how you like the next recipe you try from the FOK cookbook.
You can taste it a little bit. Have you ever had a tofu ricotta? It’s kind of similar to that, but basil-y.
YUM that looks really good! What are the ingredients? In salad? divine!
The ingredients of the pesto or the salad? The pesto is basil, tofu, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, garlic and salt. The salad had lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, slaw mix and tuna. I think.
I love pesto! I hardly ever make it though because I don’t like using my food processor. I am so lazy.