Recipe - Pad Thai Pseudo-Vegetarian Style

One fourth cup Thai fish sauce
One fourth cup White vinegar; plus:
2 tablespoon White vinegar
4 tablespoon Sugar (less if desired)
1 teaspoon Paprika
8 ounce Thai rice noodles
(about 1/4" thick)
8 ounce Tofu
2 tablespoon Dried shrimp (optional)
3 tablespoon Oil
2 Garlic cloves (or more)
2 Eggs
Three fourths pound Bean sprouts
3 Green onions
cut or sliced up on the diagonal,
including white part
Three fourths cup Ground peanuts
1 tablespoon Roasted red chili peppers *

* [Take some dried red chili peppers and cook them in an ungreased wok over
low stirring constantly until they start to brown. Grind in a coffee
grinder or spice mill.]

Instructions: ============= Combine first four ingredients and let sit
until sugar dissolves. Soak rice noodles/sticks in warm water until they
are soft but don't disintegrate when pressed, about 40 minutes. Drain.
Drain tofu by wrapping it in a clean towel and pressing with a large can of
tomatoes, about 30 minutes. Cut into One fourth inch cubes. Rinse dried shrimp in
water and drain.

Put oil in wok, heat to medium, put in crushed garlic. Swirl around for
about a minute. Add noodles and mix around for a minute or two.

Add the tofu and shrimp then immediately add the liquid. Keep stirring
until the liquid has all been absorbed into the noodles, about a couple of
minutes.

Lower heat to low or mediumlow. Push some of the stuff aside at one end
of wok, and break an egg in. Immediately cover with noodles. Do the same at
the other end of wok. Let the eggs cook *undisturbed* until the yolks are
practically cooked, about three minutes. (*Carefully* peak if unsure.) Slip
a slotted spoon under each egg in turn, and bring upward, through the
noodles, shaking as you go. The idea is to break up the cooked egg into
the rest of the mixture into tiny bits.

Mix in sprouts and green onions. Let cook for another two minutes. Turn
off heat. Add crushed peanuts and enough roasted red chilies to your
desired hotness.

From: jkandell@ccit.arizona.edu (Jonathan Kandell)

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini