Breakfast of Champions: Scrambled Tofu w/ Vegan Sausage and Spicy Breakfast Potatoes!

I woke up this morning, weighed myself, and discovered that I had lost three pounds since Sunday! I decided to celebrate by making a wicked breakfast packed full of flavor. This morning's meal consisted of scrambled tofu with Yves vegan "sausage", breakfast potatoes, and a cup of Kenya Tatu from the one and only Coffea Roasterie.

Suzanne had prepared the scrambled tofu yesterday, so all I had to do was heat up the sausage in a pan. Once the sausage was close to being done, I added the tofu. This worked out well because the tofu absorbed some of the spice and flavor of the sausage, making a delicious egg substitute.

Scrambled tofu is pretty simple. Essentially, you're just browning it in a pan. Break up some tofu into bite size pieces, add your favorite seasonings, some water so the tofu won't stick, and you're set. When I reheated the tofu, I added a little water to the pan. The water cooks out, but it gives the dish some moisture.

With the breakfast potatoes, I simply sliced and diced, threw them into a pan with olive oil, added some salt, pepper, chili powder, and little dash of tobasco, and bam boom pow...I had some awesome breakfast potatoes.

As for the coffee, one of my favorite in-home brew methods is the aeropress. If you are an avid coffee drinker and do not have one of these, I highly recommend swinging by World Market and picking one up or ordering one online. This bad boy will make an insanely delicious 8oz. cup of coffee in one minute and 15 seconds. How you ask? Here's a simple method...

Boil some water in a tea kettle, electric kettle, whatever you have.

Dose 21 grams of your favorite coffee and grind it to a fine grind (3.25 or so...just make sure there are no large visible chunks.)

Pre-wet the paper filter with some of your hot water (this eliminates the paper flavor that can sometimes sneak its way into your coffee.)

Pour some of your hot water into your coffee cup. By pre-heating your cup, it provides an easy transition for your coffee. When you pour hot coffee into a cold cup it shocks the coffee, altering the flavor.

Dump the hot water our of your coffee cup and place the numbered tube of the aeropress on top of your cup. Pour in your grounds. Set your timer for one minute. Begin your timer and pour in 30 grams of water (making sure to cover the grounds) and let that sit for 15 seconds (this is called a preinfusion and helps with the coffee extraction AKA better tasting coffee). Once the 15 seconds are up, pour in your hot water up to the number 4 on the aeropress tube. Let that sit until the timer goes off. Once it goes off, take the "plunger" and plunge the coffee into your coffee cup. Stop when you hear the hissing sound. Voila! You now have a delicious cup of coffee! I use an inverted method in which the aeropress is flipped upside down, however, this traditional method will also yield a tasty cup of coffee.

Happy Wednesday, ya'll!

-Bearded Vegan