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To open my freezer door is to ask for bother. If you’re fortunate, you’ll have the ability to catch the bag of frozen dumplings or compost scraps because it tumbles from the precarious perch atop a lumpy bag of ice. If you’re not so fortunate, the batch of fifty/50 martinis you made for the party will launch itself from the frozen cannon I’ve inadvertently created and detonate on the tiled ground, as my pal Gabe discovered a few months again.
I’ll freeze absolutely anything. Bread, tortillas, broths, from-scratch beans, dredges of canned tomato paste and chipotles in adobo, vegetable scraps and even some cheeses go straight into the ice field.
And I freeze my tofu. Doing so accomplishes a couple of issues, as Eric Kim wrote this week. Freezing tofu not solely extends it previous that stamped expiration date, however doing so additionally removes sufficient moisture to create a delightfully crisp exterior and pleasantly spongy inside when fried or roasted. “Perhaps better of all,” Eric writes of freezing, “it additionally concentrates and accentuates the comforting style of soybeans.”
For his crispy tofu (above), you don’t want panko or cornstarch. Just drain your tofu and slice it into slabs, then freeze it. When you’re able to prepare dinner, pat and evenly press the tofu to get solely a few of the water out (squeeze out an excessive amount of and the ultimate product will find yourself too dry) earlier than oiling, seasoning and roasting.
Just open the freezer door ever so fastidiously earlier than shifting on to Step 1.
One More Thing!
Reading: In The Atlantic, the horrible value of a phone-based childhood. In The Times, a very good rundown on what, precisely, is completely different about this second in Haiti. And, from Vulture, for many who watched the “Love Is Blind” reunion final evening, an explainer on why Clay’s mother and father had been the perfect a part of Season 6.
Watching: Hopefully, lastly, “Dune: Part Two” this weekend. Here’s our evaluate, from Manohla Dargis. I’m alongside for a wormier trip.
Listening: “Supernature,” the atmospheric 1977 disco basic from the French producer Cerrone.
Next week, I’m leaving you within the very succesful palms of Tejal Rao, the very first author of this right here e-newsletter. Please welcome her again warmly, and I’ll see you in two weeks.
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