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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Char Nolan - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Char Nolan in her virtual office as she welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to ask anything – from cooking techniques to cou… Read More.

Question:

What is one of your favorite summer meals?

— Melissa Bryant

Answer:

So behind me you'll see my rice cooker because I just finished cooking a bunch of, uh, brown rice, lundberg brown rice, which is my favorite. And um, I don't know what I'm gonna do with it yet, but I'm gonna package it up to use for salads to use in soups. Yeah, I still eat soups in the summer because they just taste so good. And, um, I just mostly like homemade salads. I enjoy, you know, the freshness of delicious produce. Uh, I enjoy being able to go to the market regularly or a local farmer's market. Salads would probably be the answer. I do eat a lot of, uh, tofu that I cook in the air fryer. And I have to say, as you know, I'm a big fan of the Rouxbe recipe for tofu. And I never ate tofu until I made that recipe 10 years ago. But one of the things that I also enjoy doing is I just love breaking the tofu into crumbles about the size of maybe that big and then just air frying it. I might season it with some garlic powder or whatever and keeping that on hand if I needed to have some added protein into a dish or whatever. But mostly salads, I think that's gonna be the answer. And when I say salads, I don't mean like a little salad of like dainty stuff. I mean beets, peas types, different types of lettuces, greens, uh, grilled lemons on tops because when you grill those lemons and you squeeze that gr that grilled juice, it adds such a delicious flavor to what you eat.
Char Nolan

Char Nolan

Plant-Based Connector/Chef Instructor

@char_nolan