Thinking of soya, the link to Asian food is immediately made. Personally I wasn’t really convinced in the beginning when the soy products started to find their way into our kitchens. But I have to admit that I have changed my mind as I started using more soya products when cooking. Did you know that soya was already used as nutrition in the 18^th century?   The most well know soya product would definitely be soya sauce used to dip your sushi or for stir-fried dishes .

The reason why I had to start using Soya products, is because my girlfriend has become lactose intolerant. So now I use soy milk, soy cream, soy margarine, etc… There is 1 thing I don’t use, and that’s Tofu. The reason is simple, if I want meat I eat meat and nothing to replace it!!  You guys should really try to sometimes replace dairy products with Soya products, for example if you make my chocolate cake (that I posted a while ago), use the soy margarine… you won’t taste the difference… and this is the case with most of the soya products.

Some very good cookbooks I have for cooking with soya (as a base) would be “Elke dag gezond” in Dutch and “The new soy cookbook” in English (by Lorna Sass). The following recipes that I tried were really nice:

• sea-devil with basilsauce
• Cannelloni filled with punchy lamb
• Chicken filled with baby pineapple

 OK, it is true that some dishes just need really farm butter. But some for some things you can replace it .