In case anyone wants to know how not to make tiramisu, here are my two failed recipes.
1.
3 egg yolks
300 g soft tofu
1 cup coffee
1/4 cup Cointreau
1/4 honey
24 lady fingers
cocoa powder
Blend the tofu, egg, honey, and 2 tbp of the coffee/Cointreu mixture. Dip the lady fingers into the C/C mixture for 5 seconds, and line a suitable dish with them. Pour half the tofu mixture on top of the lady fingers. Dip more lady fingers into the C/C, and cover the tofu mixture. Top with the rest of the tofu mix, and cover with cocoa powder.
Delicious, but the tofu mixture is far too loose and watery.
2.
6 egg yolks
3 tbs. sugar
1.5 cups coffee
2 tbs. Cointreau
300 g soft tofu
24 lady fingers
cocoa powder
Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and thickened, then add to tofu. Blend and add 2 tbs. of C/C mix. Dip and line pan with lady fingers as in previous recipe. Pour tofu/egg mix into a small sauce pan, and heat until less watery. Pour on top of lady fingers. Repeat as above, and cover with cocoa powder.
Edible, but the texture is a little too clumpy, and the flavor is slightly off.
Below Right: Me at Michi's second house from several months ago. Left: some priests meditating below a water fall. For some reason, this is a stereotypical...way to increase spiritual power? I'm not sure exactly how to phrase it, but the idea seems to be that meditating under a water fall somehow increases your mental power, so it has been a staple of samurai literature for several hundred years.
Cheers,
