{Thursday's Guest Post} Yummy Tofu and a Fellow DC Blogger

Happy, happy THURSDAY everyone!

I am SO excited to share this guest blogger today!  Claire and I have become recent friends since she TOO is from this great city known as Washington, D.C. and literally is probably one of the sweetest people I know.  Oh and did I mention generous??  Check out her amazing giveaway going on right now for a chance to win some gorgeous items from Anthropologie.  Love it.

Claire's super-fab blog The Realistic Nutritionist shares the same kind of idea as mine and has some seriously delicious recipes on there.  Anytime I need some inspiration for healthy dishes or just want to stalk read her fun stories I head over to her blog.  You totally should too!

So enough of MY rambling, please welcome my lovely friend Claire!

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Hello Eat Yourself Skinny readers!  I'm so happy to be guest posting for Kelly while she is taking a much needed vacation away!  I'm Claire from The Realistic Nutritionist where I blog about healthy (but realistic) living!  Kelly and I have a similar mindset (and live pretty close too!) so we've instantly connected over our love for healthy, yet delicious, eating and cooking.

Last weekend I had a crazy food idea.  This is hardly unusual though, I often find myself jotting down recipes, ingredients and flavors at random times after I've had a EUREKA moment.

{Most of the time on a napkin, like I'm some struggling poet or something}

But this idea was a bit stranger than usual.  I decided to make my normal Saturday breakfast (eggs, shrooms, onions and the like), but this time, WITHOUT eggs.  I decided "why not use tofu?"  If you read along my blog, you know I have not always enjoyed tofu.  In fact, it used to terrify me (meat substitute jello, I mean, seriously folks).  But now I just can't get enough of it.  So, to celebrate my new found love of this fabulous stuff, I brought my idea to life and made a tofu scramble.

As you see, it looks JUST like a batch of scrambled eggs.  Serve with toast and to the naked eye, you'd think you were eating a batch of Farm Fresh.  However, after the first bite, you know you are definitely eating tofu.  But what I love (and many people hate) about tofu is the fact that it has NO flavor to begin with.  I love that because it's sort of a blank canvas.  You can spice it up, add hot sauce, or drench it in crispy bread crumbs.  The sky is the limit.  So for this dish, I drained it, then marinated it in turmeric (to give it that eggy color and a zingy flavor) caramelized the onions and mushrooms and liberal dashes of salt and pepper.  Plus, I mixed in some yogurt and cream cheese to give it a milky flavor and texture.

The flavor and texture of the dish was great.  It had incredible zest due to the spices and the onions and mushrooms really added to the savory flavor.  Plus, paired with a buttered piece of whole wheat toast and you have a perfect breakfast.  Just don't let the chickens know you've found a new Saturday routine.  I hear they can get pretttttty angry.  (I mean, have you seen Chicken Run??  I wouldn't mess with them.)

Tofu Breakfast Scramble

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Servings: 3

Serving Size: 1 cup 

Calories: 220

Fat: 11 g

Carbs: 14 g

Protein: 15 g

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Here are your ingredients:

Recipe adapted from Everyday Health

1 block extra firm tofu

1 medium onion, finely chopped

3/4 cup of mushrooms, chopped

1 1/2 tsp. turmeric

Liberal dashes of salt and pepper

1 1/2 Tbsp of cream cheese

1/3 cup of fat-free yogurt

1 Tbsp of butter

Fresh chives for garnish

Drain tofu completely (so there is almost NO extra water).  Chop into mini bite size pieces.

In a medium saucepan, melt a tablespoon of butter.  Add in onions and mushrooms and cook until just browned.

Add tofu and let marinate in the caramelizing vegetables.  Add spices.  Mix in yogurt and cream cheese, slightly mashing with the tofu.  Take off heat and enjoy!  Add extra chives for garnish*

*Note:  You may need to drain some extra fluid out of the pan if the tofu wasn't fully rinsed.

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Thanks AGAIN Claire for guest posting while I'm away on {vacation}!!  If you haven't already, check out her fabulous blog and send some love her way!  Can't wait til we finally meet Claire at the next blogger happy hour gathering!

 

C'mon, who are we kidding??

On another note!  Today is me and my amazing boyfriend's ONE year anniversary!  This has literally been the best year of my life and I couldn't be happier.

I love you Christopher with ALL my heart and looking forward to many more anniversaries with you!

::MWAH::