Fried "Chicken" Tofu and Gravy

Cookbook * Cookin' Southern: Vegetarian Style
Recipe * Fried "Chicken" Tofu and Gravy
Yumm or Yuck? * Yumm and So So

Everyone needs a staple mock chicken recipe. I wasn't thrilled with this recipe the day I made it, but during the night it miraculously transformed into what is easily the best "cold chicken fried tofu" I've ever had. I remember eating cold chicken sandwiches using leftover fried chicken as a kid. This tastes almost exactly the same! Take your next-day leftovers and make a sandwich with veganaise, tomato, and lettuce. Make sure you really dredge the tofu with nutritional yeast and cook on a medium high heat or lower to avoid burning.

The gravy is another story. The taste is okay, but too many lumps foiled my plans for a perfect Southern dinner.

Baking Powder Biscuits

Cookbook * Cookin' Southern: Vegetarian Style
Recipe * Baking Powder Biscuits
Yumm or Yuck? * Yuck

It had to happen sooner or later - a yuck review. This designation is reserved only for those hopeless recipes you wouldn't wish on anyone. Hopefully this will save you the trouble of making the bad recipes just as the yumm reviews guide you toward the winners. These are not fluffy biscuits, but hard hockey pucks. My dog practically choked on a bite. They could be marginally improved if I rolled the dough out thicker. If you douse them with Earth Balance "butter" and jelly they are edible, but otherwise a very poor representation of our cherished biscuit!

Prissy's Easy Peach Cobbler

Cookbook * Cookin' Southern: Vegetarian Style
Recipe * Prissy's Easy Peach Cobbler
Yumm or Yuck? * Yumm
I'm often wary of recipes that are exceedingly easy or exceedingly complicated - they just never seem to turn out. This recipe is an exception. It is very easy and tastes just like what you would expect a peach cobbler to taste like. It sets up nicely after cooling to make for easy slicing/serving. Nothing extraordinary here, but if you are lookin' for a good old-fashioned cobbler - this is it.
Thanks to my husband's midnight freezer raid, the only thing missing is the soy vanilla ice cream.