Random bites
*This may be old-hat to many vegetarians, but I just recently discovered the delights of baking for use in recipes. I’ve always loved deep-fried tofu, but let’s face it—it may be tofu, but it’s sure not healthy when it’s fixed that way! So I always just pan-fried my tofu for stir-fries. But if you bake your tofu, cut into strips or cubes, in a 400-degree oven for 20 minutes or so (turn it once), it becomes much more like deep-fried, with a crispy outside and chewy inside.
*Here’s a nice Los Angeles Times story about an actress (and Duke graduate) working to persuade major-league baseball stadiums to add veggie dogs to their stadium menus. It’s a good illustation of the effect that one person can have.
*KFC has started serving meatless “chicken” sandwiches in its Canadian restaurants as a result of a boycott by PETA. It caused a bit of a kerfuffle when PETA representatives dressed only in lettuce-leaf bikinis handed out samples. You can read PETA’s press release here. Although it’s a nice gesture, I don’t think I’d be chowing down on one of the sandwiches even if they were available in U.S. KFCs—apparently, the “chicken” is cooked in the same fat as the regular chicken.
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