Smoked Tofu and Samphire Salad

Wow, I've just had lovely bank holiday weekend. I spent time with my boyfriend, Marcus. (Please see my other blog!) We went canoe-ing, samphire picking to the Alresford Creek.... I was actually looking forward to the samphire picking. I love eating them raw. Since I discovered them in one of restaurants I used to work back in 90's( sounds I'm really old...), I've became big fan of samphire. All my chefs used to blanch them in hot water then chilled in iced water to prevent from farther cooking. When I was preparing them for garnish (for the chef), I put a small bit of them in my mouth raw. I thought it had wonderful flavour and texture. I loved the crunchiness, and salted taste from sea water. About 4 years ago, I saw fishmonger in Bury market was selling samphire really cheap. I bought some, but he gave me loads. Apparently, they weren't selling. So, I took home, ate whole bag. Especially I loved them on hot steamed sticky rice with soy/tamari sauce. Being Japanese, Yes, I use tamari in lots of food I cook. I don't add loads, but just a little bit. It adds (for me) wonderful taste. The night we picked them, I made salad "Samphire, lentils and onion salad with Smoked tofu and herb salsa"

We seemed to pick lots more samphire than what I thought. So, following night( we came back to mine) I cooked bangers and mash with samphire again. This is how it looked:

I made mash with cannellini beans (I cooked a couple days ago), and roasted butternut squash with rosemary and lots of garlic. I thought I had some thickening agent in my cupboard. But I didn't. So, I made sauce with onion and some stock till very soft, them blitz. Reduce the liquid a bit then add some dried porccini mushroom, bit tamari, keep reducing. While reducing going, make sure samphire is room temperature. Bake tofu sausages. Mash the beans, harrisa, squash and mix some flat leaf parsley. Then serve onto plate. I love texture of tofu sausages. Wonderful thing about them is; grease doesn't come out, healthy, water doesn't come out, doesn't burn and doesn't taste like regular sausages(meat ones). They are wonderful food! This morning, I made breakfast. This is what I normally eat, I thought colour was pretty. So I took a photo:

Green juice behind is mixture of: cucumber, celery, lots of spinach, some apples, hemp, spirulina, and wheatgrass powder. I like green smoothies too, but i get board so quickly, I need to alternate or keep making different ones. So, my food shopping bill sometimes comes up really pricey. that's why I need to watch what I buy and get when I see some offers. Being healthy is costly business, I hope, in future, health foods price go down!!!!!  Aggggggrrrrr, I'm hungry again!!!! Need to get something to eat.....