And the last meal from last week's mealkit bounty: Five Spiced Tofu and Walnut Lettuce Cups
This one is from Sun Basket. We prepared a day later than planned (Purple Carrot box arrived today, so we have a new set already), because when I went to make it, they had shipped the wrong kind of tofu. Plain firm tofu instead of braised five-spice tofu. I called them since this didn't seem to be an intentional substitution (no note in the box and plain tofu would cook up very differently and be missing a lot of flavor). Sure enough, it was a mistake. They were particularly generous, though, and gave me a credit for the full meal.
Even though the recipe called for Hodo brand tofu (a local brand we can find in Whole Food and now sold nationwide), we decided to go to the local Asian grocery and do some grocery shopping we can't get done elsewhere (e.g. chrysanthemum greens! 茼蒿, fermented rice, preserved vegetable, ..) and picked up this brand for our Sun Basket dish (it's even partially chopped already, though most 5-spice prepared tofu is not):
And here it is all chopped up before mixing and cooking with the other box ingredients. You can see that plain tofu would have a very different result.
Our tofu lettuce cup dinner ingredients ready for eating:
And a prepared portion:
And, oh, but their prepared hoisin is fantastic! Way better than any bottled stuff I've had.
