My food project for this month is to conquer the legume, specifically lentils, red beans and soybeans. Because beans are cheap! I had soaked half a kilo of soybeans yesterday, and they bloated quite nicely. I wanted to try making tofu and soybean milk. I didn't get much tofu from half gallon of soy milk that I had. It didn't harden up too well, either. It tasted like tofu, but it was a tofu pudding. Perhaps I used the wrong lecithin. The label didn't say magnesium chloride, so perhaps that was the problem. My soy milk turned out gritty. My strainer wasn't fine enough, I needed cheesecloth. What I had left was a lot of soy meal. I had never cooked with soy meal before, but I do know that it's supposed to be healthy food. Cattle eat it. So what could go wrong with soy meal, garlic, onion and salt? I fried it up and it tasted good, but it disintegrated. I guess I need to add flour. How do they make veggie burgers and soy cheese? I need to study that, they must add some real flavoring somehow. Anyway, my stomach didn't like it. Health food. Back to the old drawing board. I still have a lot of soy meal left. The good news is I didn't spend a cent today!
