like water for tofu

fwt toyoko, feeling bummed out one day, decides to lift her spirits in the usual way: cooking*! she mentions to fwt dorothy that she feels like the protaganist in the book "like water for chocolate", who expresses herself through her cooking. apparently, dorothy had just talked about the book a couple days prior! neither of us has read the book for more than a decade...

* for the related recipe: http://weliketofu.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/like-water-for-tofu-aka-black-bean-plantain-empanadas/