Tempeh is a Vegan Crunk Tester, risotto from Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure
This tempeh bacon was so tasty! And I actually had all the ingredients lying around, which is nice. I like the VwaV tempeh bacon, but I never make it because I never have apple cider, and if I buy apple cider I have to figure out what to do with the rest of it. And apple cider doesn't go particularly well with gin, so it's not like I'm going to drink it. Anyway, unlike
that tempeh bacon, Bianca's tempeh bacon won't leave me with a giant jug of barely used apple cider taking up half the fridge, and it is, if anything, even more delicious. Sweet, smokey, salty, it's got it all.
The winter squash risotto was decidedly meh, a fact I am blaming entirely on this stupid mediocre squash the CSA keeps giving me. First it took forever to peel the damn thing, and then when it was cooked it didn't even taste good. It did have an amazing texture though - I mashed up the squash a little with a potato masher when it was done cooking, and it made the risotto even creamier than it normally is. I think this would probably be delicious if you made it with the butternut squash called for in the recipe, just don't substitute carnival squash, it will suck and you'll be sad and your wrists will hurt from hacking the stupid thing up. This did taste better when I mixed in some of the tempeh bacon, and it got better as leftovers, but still, seriously bland.
Local: Salad fixins, squash