About a month ago I took a class on making tempeh.

One thing led to anouther and I got inspired and have been making it every week. If you've ever had fresh tempeh you know what I mean when I say, "yummy."

It is hard work but fun. The hard part is hulling all the soy beans. To do a pound (which makes about 4 lbs of tempeh) takes about 1.5 hours. It is good exercize for my guitar muscles and it is neat to look at all those beans. (This summer I'm going to grow some soybeans and hope I have enough to make some tempeh out of the garden.)

The fun part is watching mold start to grow and then, over the course of a couple days, fill in all the cracks and spaces between the beans. When it is done you just put it in the fridge until you want to use it.

I've been cooking lots of tempeh based dishes. Indonesian Green Beans w/ tempeh, soysage on pizza, tempeh and just-sprouted mung bean stir fry. And on and on and on..

If you have a favorite tempeh recipe please share. And, if you live in Madison and love tempeh, let me know so I know who to share with when I have surplus.