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Soon dubu chigae - Korean soft tofu stew.

Lemongrass Tofu - http://www.phamfatale.com/id_96/title_Lemongrass-Tofu/

Fried Tofu in a black bean sauce, add some fresh jalapenos or other chili to the sauce, it's way better with a little heat.

Vietnamese hot and sour soup (canh chua).

Just my preference: I think tofu is only good after it's been fried, then added to any dish with a good sauce or broth. The texture improves (chewier instead of soft mushy) and the fried tofu soaks up all that good flavor from the broth or the sauce.

Pavlova is delicious and easy. I like to top my meringue with lemoncurd, then whipped cream and topped with raspberries. It's a favorite with my friends. I even won a dessert 'contest' last year with it.

The other GF dessert that I like is Coeur a la Creme, which is so good, you might even lick the plate clean, not that I would know anything about that ;)

love duck a l'orange and it's still citrus season.

the big guy is in Asia on business during V day, so I may console myself with making comfort food like mac and cheese, maybe with a little crabmeat.

Chicken meatballs. Get Aidell's or Rosie. Both available in most large supermarkets and Costco. Same deal for chicken sausages. Serve with toothpicks and some bbq sauce or Thai sweet chili sauce.

Tortilla rollups with turkey, a smear of mayo or cream cheese, lettuce, and/or cheese. Rollup, secure with toothpicks and slice into bite-size pieces.

Hummus with baked pita chips or fresh pita.

For something sweet, homemade or baked chocolate cupcakes with frosted with marshmallow fluff or whipped cream.

If you want good Indian in London, try Tayyab in Whitechapel. Our rental landlord recommended it over the Indian places in Brick Lane. It had great food and it wasn't that expensive. Harder to get to since it's a walk from a major tube stop and it's very popular with the locals. So go early, ~6-ish, for dinner so you don't have to wait too long.

For divine gelato, try Scoop located in Shorts Garden, in Covent Garden. Gelato is just like the stuff in Italy.

Personally, I wasn't all that impressed with the Neal's Yard Dairy location at Borough Market, maybe because Borough Market had good artisan cheese stalls. I really wanted to take a course at La Fromagerie, but they didn't have any while I was there (last June).

Do get to Borough Market. Weekends are just a zoo, but then that might be fun. We had some really good sausages and fish&chips. And I finally got my chip butty. French fries on bread, who wouldn't love that. Good selection of oils, tea, olives, cheeses, pastries, and cocktails. Saw a beautiful and huge pan of seafood paella, but I just had my chip butty AND a wild boar sausage. Go early and you'll have a great time.

I recommend afternoon tea at either The Berkeley or The Ritz. It's pricey, delicious splurge and you feel so proper and English doing it. The British Museum offers an afternoon tea service and it's more reasonable, plus you'll be sitting under that lovely roof. Most formal tea places have a dress code which means that you'll have to look a little nicer than a tourist. We've found that as long as you aren't wearing shorts, a nice pair of jeans (no rips), dress shoes (no sneakers) and a dress shirt or polo is acceptable.

If you must, do a quick visit Harrod's food court. But it's gets seriously crowded and noisy. I walked through it once on my very first trip to London and while the foods offered were impressive, it just wasn't some place where I wanted to spend that much time. We sort of sprinted through it. I enjoyed Selfridges more.

One of these days, we'll finally explore the rest of England.

Buttercream frosting uses a ton of butter.

Wow, I have all these ingredients in my fridge right now.

Gumbo

Make fresh porcini pasta.
Add it to your bolognese sauce.
Add it to a cream sauce and serve over steak. I had this in Prague. Fantastic.

Well, since you posted the same thing twice, it MUST be true.

Kenji, have you tried using tofu skins (yuba?) as a pseudo noodle replacement? A local Chinese resto makes this stir-fry of Chinese pickled turnip, napa cabbage, soybeans and yuba in a white sauce made of probably chicken stock which you could sub with vegetable stock, seasoned with white pepper, salt, and sesame oil. It's my favorite vegetarian dish and this is the only place where I've seen it.

@BabyBokChoy, it's also interesting that the same researchers found that phytochemicals in avocados can be used to arrest cancer cell growth.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22070054
Note that these findings were published in 2011, a year after they published findings that avocados causes chromosonal abberations when applied directly to cells (i.e. in vitro). The concentration of the extractions of both the leaves and fruit used was high, more so than what we would ordinarily consume in the whole fruit. If you're going to dump a bunch of chemicals onto living cells, you'll definitely get abnormalities.

I wouldn't call one study definitive proof that avocados are bad for you when there are thousands research studies that support the health benefits of avocados.

Red-Cooked Wings:

4 lbs wings
1 bottle dark soy sauce
1 bottle light soy sauce (not low sodium)
1 cup water, more if needed
2 cinnamon sticks
6 star anise
a hand of gingerroot, sliced
2 TB peppercorns, your choice
5 cloves of garlic, smashed and peeled

In a large pot (enough to fit all ingredients and then some), combine all except the chicken wings. Bring to boil and then simmer for about 10 minutes. Then add wings, bring to boil and then simmer for about 20 minutes. Turn off heat and leave the wings in the sauce for about an hour or so. You can make this the night before and leave the wings in the sauce. Remove wings and enjoy. The sauce can be saved for the next few batches of wings.