March 20 is the Great American Meatout, a day to try those meatless recipes you've been thinking of trying out someday.  If you can't find them in your cabinet, how about dicing up tofu and adding it to your spaghetti sauce with some black olives, or putting a delicious condensed green pea soup over a mixture of cooked red and short grained rice and dicing up almonds to sprinkle on top. 

If you freeze tofu, it becomes spongy when it thaws and easily absorbs other flavors as you stir fry it. Or you could add it to a thick, condensed black bean or navy bean soup with some button mushrooms and put that over a plate of delicious red rice.  You'll find it has all the appetite satisfaction you expect in a"meat and potatoes" dish.

Peggy Murdock