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Tofu Tahini Spread

Based on a recipe from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home by the Moosewood Collective.

Makes 2 cups.

1 cake firm tofu (3/4 pound)
2 tablespoons tahini
1 tablespoon miso (I use light)
1-2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 scallions, minced
1 carrot, grated
ground black pepper to taste

Using a potato masher or food processor, mix the tofu with the tahini, miso, and 1 teaspoon of the soy sauce until well blended. Stir the scallions and carrots into the tofu mixture. Add black pepper and more soy sauce to taste.

Notes

I don't love the flavor of this just on crackers, but it does make a nice sandwich with veggies. Extra firm tofu also worked fine.

We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...] "Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget. "I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee." The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.

-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition

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