Roasted Cauliflower, Beer Battered Tofu, and Thyme Tomatoes

Last night, I was snowed in and bored. I checked out www.vegansaurus.com, which is awesome, and I saw they were having a best of survey for www.vegweb.com, which is the GIANTEST compendium of veggie recipes EVER.
So I tried a few things that had at least made it to the survey. Pictured above is the marinade for Oven Roasted Cauliflower.
Ugly link: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=31174.0 This marinade smells and looks amazing. It's super garlicky. It also rocks because it's so simple to prepare- I mixed up the marinade and cut up the cauliflower (with scissors! you can just snip those florets out easy peasy), and stuck it in a tupperware in the fridge for a few hours. Then, at serious cooking time, I just dumped the whole mess onto a baking sheet and popped it in the oven.
Since I was roasting, I decided to use up my last two plum tomatoes. I think I saw a recipe for these things in Real Simple or Martha Stewart....but I can't remember!
These are super simple. Right after I prepared the cauliflower, I sliced the romas lengthwise, and put them in a lightly oiled baking dish. Then I Mistoed the top of them- do you know about the Misto? It's a refillable olive oil mister, and it kicks ass. Seriously. You can use so much less oil with this sucker. I just ran it across the tops of the tomatoes a few times, and then sprinkled them with dried thyme. I like to crumble the thyme as I do this, but only cause it makes me feel chef-i-er. Then a little sea salt and freshly ground pepper....pop 'em in the oven at 200 for 2 hours...then crank it up to 400 for 15 more minutes. Yum.


For the main course, I tried another Vegweb recipe: Beer Tofu. I thought I put a fancy link in here, but it isn't showing up, so here's the ugly one:
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=8462.0
This was yummy, but no Misto action is gonna cut it for a dish like this. Only attempt it if you're down with the kind of thing that has to drain on paper towels. I tried using only a tiny bit of oil, and it just was NOT happening. Once I caved and poured some more in, the tofu became little crusty nuggets of heaven. Mmmm. I switched up the spices, which is my favorite part of cooking...so I included a little of Paula Dean's Lady and Sons Salt Mix. Oh dear lord, if you haven't tried this, you probably shouldn't, because it has MORE SODIUM THAN SALT. I don't know how. It also probably has dehydrated butter mixed in with it because it is YUM-O, if I may mix up my food network starz a little. Also, BAM! That's some good stuff. I only used a little, but you could taste the deliciousness. Anyway, yes...even tofu-phobic Stella ate it happily. So you know it ain't too healthy!