my first experience with tofu.
hot and sour soup. from a restaurant. i liked it.
... umm. that's totally boring.

ok. now to make up for that totally lame excuse for a first experience... here goes my first experience with tofu prepared at "home"

tofu turkey (yes, from vegweb. i was obsessed with that website when i was a new vegan. it was really my only cookbook.) if you click the link and read the recipe, you will see that it calls for nothing but tofu as the turkey itself. no freezing, no marinating, no nothing to make the tofu seem less like tofu, and more like turkey. and to top it all off, i chose the crumble method. *shudder*

i was a new vegan. actually. if i remember correctly, that was my first day as an official vegan. i was living in a dorm room, freshman year of college. both of my suitemates had gone to spend thanksgiving with their family/friends. so i was left alone with my (illegal) toaster oven, ferris bueller's day off playing in the common room.... and a disgusting tofu turkey. i don't think i had very many spices, so i don't remember if i made the stuffing or not... i may have. but the awfulness of the turkey must have been so bad to overshadow whatever suitableness of the stuffing there was. i think that scarred me for quite a while.

so in closing, plain crumbled tofu pressed into a dome shape and then "heated up" should not be a substitute for a turkey. thank you.