Time for another favorite recipe. Courtesy of (surprise) Heidi Swanson’s 101cookbooks.com.
I made this the other night for a semi-potluck, and as usual,* it was a hit. Sesame-ginger-honey-lemon-cayenne dressing over buckwheat soba noodles, diced cucumbers, and pan-fried tofu, finished with sesame seeds and with green onions and cilantro, if I’ve got ’em on hand.
Swanson actually got this recipe from a restaurant here in San Francisco called pomelo. The in-store version is mighty tasty (their tofu is especially nice), but it’s simple enough to make at home — no outlandish ingredients or particularly finicky prep. (A food processor does come in handy, though.)
My minor tweaks: more cayenne, more cucumber. (I’ll use 1.5 or 2 cucumbers instead of one-half.)
I could eat this every day for a week, people.
Well, that’s true about a lot of foods. But this one especially.
Enjoy!
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*One fairly disastrous exception was the time I tried to make it for my wonderful CouchSurfing hosts in Barcelona. The effort was doomed by my inability to find Japanese ingredients in Catalunyan grocery stores. The result was a brownish, ginger-less spaghetti slop with rock-hard tofu nuggets. Pretty humiliating. But they were totally sweet about it, bless their hearts. Maybe someday they’ll visit me in San Francisco and I can redeem myself with a proper version.
Kloncke 