Week 17: Soy - Pad Thai [Cooking]

Intro from Cooking Challenge: Oi! Soy! One of the biggest crops globally, soy is used as animal feed, as oil in about a million processed foods, and as a foodstuff for humans. It has a very high protein content that makes it a cheap easy source of nutrition. From soy milk, to tofu, to the fermented goods like miso and tempeh, or just raw as edamame, soy can be eaten and prepared in almost limitless ways. So what will you make? Dare to press your own tofu? Marinate some salmon in miso and grill it? Just beware the KILLER TOFU.

I'm really not a huge soy/tofu person beyond eating edamame with my sushi. So I was somewhat dreading this week, until I realized one of my favorite dishes has tofu in it - pad thai! I made my version with chicken as well.

I'll admit I cheated and used a pre-made pad thai sauce (it's been getting pretty expensive to buy all these specialty spices and sauces for each recipe!) mixed with some thai peanut sauce, which I realized afterwards was a huge mistake. It was overly sweet and I wish I had taken the time to make the sauce for scratch.