Day 71: A Craving for Po' Boy's

I have been thinking about fried shrimp for a while. Before going on this vegan adventure, I used to eat shrimp like there was no tomorrow: fried, in garlic sauce, boiled with cocktail sauce, in cocteles (Mexican shrimp cocktails), and just about anyway they were given to me.

We were at the car dealership getting our car serviced and I was very hungry.  The only thing I could think of was a shrimp po' boy for dinner.  David said he would make me a fried tofu po' boy instead.  We stopped by the store on the way home and he bought lettuce, tomatoes, tofu, and French bread.  He found a recipe in the E2 book that suggested covering the tofu cubes with nutritional yeast and garlic powder.  He also added Tony Cachere's.  Then fried them in a little canola oil.

I was nervous about how were were going to make the sauce that goes on the po' boys, but I found a recipe online for vegan mayo:

Vegan Mayo
1/2 package of silken lite tofu
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/8 teaspoons white pepper
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon agave nectar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 T olive oil

Then we mixed in ketchup and tabasco sauce.  It tasted just like the real thing!

Once we assembled the sandwich:  toasted French bread, special sauce with vegan mayo, ketchup, and tabasco, the fried tofu, the lettuce, and the tomatoes.  It looked and smelled just like a po' boy and it tasted just wonderful!   And this is coming from someone who for a while (when I worked for a company that had an office in New Orleans and I travelled there a lot) could only eat the po' boys from a tiny hole in the wall restaurant next to the French Market in New Orleans because nothing else tasted as good...