[VeganMoFo] Day 20: Teacup Peanut Sauce

Sometimes you just need a little sauce, not a lot. Of course, you could always make more than you need, and save the rest for later...or, you could just make a little sauce!

Enter: teacup!

1 Tbsp peanut butter

1 Tbsp soy sauce or Bragg's liquid aminos

1 Tbsp rice vinegar

1-2 tsp nutritional yeast

1 tsp ginger powder

1 tsp sriracha

Put all the ingredients in a teacup. Whisk 'em.

I had some frozen dumplings which I pan-fried and then dunked in this sauce. It was just the right amount for an 8-dumpling dinner (for someone who likes sauce a LOT :-) )

Fun Fact: If you take the word "peanut", turn the "n" on its side, and shuffle the letters...you get "teacup"!

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Some days you just need to eat something without having to put too much effort in, right?

1/2 block of tofu, mashed up in a bowl

your favorite peanut sauce

1. Dump peanut sauce all over the tofu

2. Mash it up again.

I've been eating tofu this way since before I stopped eating meat. It's still my favorite way to eat tofu. Okay, maybe it is my second-favorite. I'll share my favorite later in the month.

In case you were wondering, this is my favorite peanut sauce: House of Tsang Bangkok Peanut Sauce. It is very hard to find. There is one grocery store around here, the Malvern Wegman's, which carries it. The only other places I've ever found it are the South Side K-Mart in Indianapolis, and a Korean market in my parents' hometown which has recently gone out of business, to the great chagrin of those of us who have been shopping there for over 20 years.

It's the best peanut sauce I've ever had. I can't even make peanut sauce as good as this stuff, so if I can find it and afford it, I usually don't even bother. It's just that good. It used to be called "Padang Peanut Sauce", so when I saw this stuff on the shelf and the other stuff no longer there, I freaked out a little bit, but then I bought this and it turned out to be the exact same thing.