I am sooooo scared to try tofu. Do you have any good recipes for beginner tofu eaters? I wont be able to try cooking it until I go home this summer, but I definitely want to experiment with vegetarian cooking.
Dont freak out
I was just like you before trying! When I became vegetarian, I was... "ok, I have to eat that, but it seems... oh... i'm going to puke!".. I spent a lot of time without eating soy/tofu/seitan... But any vegetarian should do this! So I had to made myself like those things...
What was my plan? well, when you're really hungry you eat things that otherwise you wouldnt eat... I had my lunch and then I didnt eat anything in the afternoon, waiting for dinner... 7 hours without eating, yes it was unhealthy but sometimes we must to radical things... At dinner I went to a veggie restaurant.. and oh god... "I'm sooooooooo hungry!! what? tofu?? YES, I love that!"
Made this for 3 days... at the end of it, I was a tofu lover! Right now... I couldnt take tofu out of my life! It is really a question of habits...
Once we turn vegetarian.. by moral, I mean, we compromise not to eat meat because we care about animals and environment, we cant step back, what kind of person takes a so importante choice and then steps back? loosers... but we must be healthy so we know we must eat vegan protein sources.. If we must, we do.. and some time later, it gets really easy and we dont miss or desire those old painful flavoures anymore.
Recipes.. well.. its hard to tell, I've many books but they are in Portuguese and I dont know english sites where you could go, but I'm going to google it a little
But I think you could try a vegetarian restaurant at the beginning because when we do it by ourselfs first we might not liking tofu because we made it badly... and then we think we get the wrong idea about tofu
