I have rediscovered my love of tofu and have discovered it rooted even deeper inside of me than I had initially imagined.
In my culinary imagination, tofu looms large with its delicious creamy-beany softness. Now that I'm dairy free, perhaps I'll be able to fill the cheese sized gap in my life with bean curd... especially since it's kind of gloopy and fits any gap so neatly. Cheesecake sized gaps, cream cheese sized gaps, mayonnaise sized gaps.
I watched the Bean Curd Battle episode of the Iron Chef and the Iron Chef Chinese, Chen Kenichi, made the most delicious looking platter of spicy bean curdiness - ma po tofu.
My plan is to serenade Andy and Kate with my own personal theme ingredient until they love tofu as much as I do.
How much tofu is too much tofu? Really, it's a very serious question. First of all there's the issue of all the progestrogen in soy - good for post-menopausal women, but not for women who are ruled by mood swings and hormones. Also, there's some suggestions that soy products tend to absorb chemicals that occur in the environments around which it's grown. Finally, as my mother used to tell me, eating too much of one particular foodstuff can cause morphism. And I don't want to be a soybean.
THE TOFU SERANADE - MP3
ReplyDeleteMaybe now you could never conceive,
That there'd ever be a food that would go with everything,
I know that you would never believe,
That there'd ever be a food, that could taste like anything...
But just open your mind, and take a bite,
Then you might find, out that you like...
Tofu, so good for me,
Tofu, so good to eat,
Tofu, better than meat,
Everything I eat goes better with Tofu.
No other food has quite the consistency of Tofu, so good for you,
Tofu, does a body good,
Tofu, America's health kick.
No other food has quite the versatility of tofu, No, No, No,
I've just got to face the facts, I'm hopelessly addicted to tofu.
I buy tofu, at the coop, the health food coop
Every night I think of something new, that I can do, with tofu.
Stir fry, marinate, tofu yong or eat it straight.
Tofu fills me up with protein, higher than the RDA, hey, hey, hey.
Tofu fills me up with acetylcholine, deep inside of my blood stream.
And it's just like a dream, when I eat tofu, everynight.
I don't know if it's real food; but I know that I like, every bite of...
Tofu, so good for me,
Tofu, so good for you,
Tofu, real food for real people.
Some day, tofu, the food that you abhor,
Will be the only food you're craving for.
Some day, you're gonna be, cooking with me, tofu, tofu, tofu.
You're gonna be, eating with me, tofu, tofu, tofu.
Come on by anytime, cuz I wanna have some tofu with you baby.
By Greg Spence Wolf, Michael Aquaila Horrigan, Bert Gildersleve and Michael Cook. This song is a parody/tribute to five Mariah Carey songs. You're So Cold (M. Carey & David Cole), Someday (M. Carey & Ben Marguiles),
Emotions (M. Carey, D. Cole & Robert Civilies) Fantasy (M. Carey, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Dave Hall, Adrian Belew & Steve Stanley) and Dreamlover (M. Carey & D. Hall)
©1999