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Artsy fartsy vegan sh-tuff

So I've gotten bored with circles. It seems like everything I cook is a  circle nowadays. There are so many shapes. Why is it always fucking circles? So I looked at a lot of minimalist, abstract, and cubist art, picked up some square and rectangle cookie cutters, and decided to play around a little bit. Granted, I started off with a circle. I used my circular cookie cutter to pull out some cylinders of tofu. I seasoned my tofu with some of that M9 seasoning I've mentioned a few times , then I seared it up in olive oil. Since I was doing vegan, that meant no butter, which made me sad. I'm sure it's probably marginally healthy or something, but goddamn I love butter. I started up a pot of rice while the tofu was cooking; I included some sautéed onion and mushroom with the rice, puffed the rice up a little bit by sautéing it in the oil, too, then dumped in some water seasoned with salt, turmeric, parsley, and thyme for it to steam. When the tofu was done, I swapped ou...