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It has been a while since I have made any tofu. I am happy to be back at it again experimenting and learning this ancient craft. The tofu I am making is seeming more and more like artisanal cheese. I made this batch by heating the tofu with mint and lemon […]
I am getting better at making tofu and was able to get two blocks of tofu out of 3 liters of soy milk today. Today’s pressing was with peppers and olives. These are becoming more and more like drawings and I am looking forward to more experiments along these lines soon as well […]
Today’s tofu pressing was with kiwi and small red peppers. I also embedded a large chunk of kiwi in the center of the tofu. We cooked the tofu in a sweet and sour sauce with even more kiwi.
This week’s tofu pressing includes dandelion greens from the neighborhood, Lichtenberg, we are staying in here in Berlin, and ginger. We have been looking for ways to get a better sense of where we are in relation to the local ecology and how people use their city spaces. Gathering dandelions is a good […]
Here is this weekend’s experiment with tofu. We used both lime and lemon juice as the coagulant to make the soy milk curdle.
We are very happy that spring is upon us and couldn’t resist using a couple of flower pots to both shape and press the tofu. First we put […]
Here is our latest experiment with pressing our own tofu. We made a paste of crushed peanuts, soy sauce and shredded basil leaves. The paste is in four layers in the tofu. We spread the first layer in the press, put in some curd, followed by another layer of paste, then more curd, […]
We have become obsessed with making tofu. We have heard from a few of you as well that you are making your own tofu. Please send us pictures of your tofu!
Here is our latest experiment: we pressed shredded carrots into the tofu. We haven’t cooked it yet. We think that maybe if […]
Brett has been making tofu, from scratch.
His investigation into this labor intensive process started because the store bought tofu selection in most Danish grocery stores is expensive and not so fresh. In fact, the selection, such as it is, includes one brand of lumpy grey tofu in a jar and […]
Svensk sojabønner / Swedish soybeans
By Bonnie On 16 October, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Dirt, Environmental activism, Growing, Neighborhood, Sojabønner
This summer we grew soybeans at Nørrebro’s rooftop garden, DYRK. They were heirloom Swedish soy beans (also known as Glycine Max) named Fiskeby III (there are numerous varieties of Fiskeby) from a seed archive in Russia called the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (designated […]
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We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Read more...
Post Revolutionary Exercises
We really admire the dedicated hard work of Kultivator who seeks to fuse agriculture and art in their work. Click this sentence to get a PDF of their poster collection called "Post Revolutionary Exercises."
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