Easy Salt and Pepper Tofu

I have been having a bit of a lazy week, with lots of peanut butter and crackers, plain rice with steamed veggies... very uninspiring to be honest.

It's also Canadian Thanksgiving, but the hubs be working, and I'm not visiting family this year, so I had to fill my day with some sort of food to be thankful for.

So I made one of my favorite dishes- Salt and Pepper Tofu.

Easy Salt and Pepper Tofu

Ingredients
Tofu, cut into cubes- medium firm to extra firm
Cornstarch
Salt, Pepper, Chili Flakes
Oil, for frying.

Directions
Heat your oil in a large skillet, enough so there's a nice layer of it in the pan.
Toss the tofu in some cornstarch, and add a few at a time, frying them, flipping them constantly, so that all the sides get nice and golden toasty.
Remove from the oil, and immediately toss with salt, pepper, and chili flakes. Be generous with it! It's what makes it so yummy! Place on some newspaper to drain any remaining oil.
Continue with the rest of the tofu!

I served mine with some leftover basmati rice from the night before, stirfried with some frozen mixed vegetables, fresh garlic and freshly ground ginger... it was awesome.

Market Day! (Or How to get a tonne of food for 35$)

If you're coming to Montreal, and going to be staying for a few days and don't want to have to eat out all the time (because we know that gets expensive!) I recommend trying out the Jean Talon Market for a variety of delicious and joy-inducing fresh vegetables.

My love affair with Farmers markets has been long standing (the town where I grew up has two of them, but they mostly sell prepared foods, not really vegetables) and the Jean Talon market delivers this magical joy of getting tonnes of food for less than you'd pay in a store, with the added bonus of knowing that the money goes pretty much directly to the farmers!

It's fabulous!

So prepare yourself for the fabulosity!

Matthew and I waited for the bus! We have to take a bus to the metro, the metro to Jean Talon Metro, and then walk a few blocks to the market!

Fresh Quebequois Asperagus! (We didn't get any, but I was tempted!)

I love how yellow these are! Mangos and Bananas are so yummy! But were not on my list so we passed them by! Next time!

Tomato Plants!

Grapefruits, Limes, and oranges! We got some grapefruits for Matthew's breakfast! (I can't take the sourness myself, but he loves em!)

Everyone was selling strawberries and raspberries! We got a little box of em.

Here was our haul! What did we get for our 35$?

Well, on this side you can see our strawberries, a 2L bottle of apple cider, a chili pepper plant, some bell peppers, and mushrooms!

On this side you can see onions, multicolored carrots tomatoes, and grapefruits

Essentially a weeks worth of delicious fresh vegetables! You'll be seeing these in recipes this week, mark my words!