Quick Chinese-Style Meal!

Chinese celery and dry tofu, stir-fried with numbing Sichuanese peppercorns.

I am not one to venture into the realms of Chinese cooking very often, because I have a husband who does that better than me... but once in a while I give it a shot!

I had bought some bags of dry tofu in the convenience store. They come vacuum-packed and ready to eat, and are not really "dry" but rather just firmer and dryer than regular tofu. For this reason they can keep for a pretty long time, and it is possible to slice this kind of tofu pretty thin to use in stir-fries, without it falling apart.

This is what the dry tofu looks like, vacuum-packed and ready to eat!

Since my husband made some dinner the other day, we had some left-over Chinese celery I don't normally cook with.

I chopped up the celery and tossed it in a wok with some oil, garlic, salt, and Sichuanese peppercorns. Then I added the dried tofu.

The result was a pleasantly spicy dish, since the mild celery did a lot to offset the peppers.

It took all of 10min to prepare, so I was a happy camper!