Becoming a Vegetarian

Thanks to a deceptively displeasing victory by the England rugby team yesterday I decided a suitable gesture of my gratitude was needed.  I also wanted to honour All-round-good-guy Billy Twelvetrees and his ability to be responsible for everything good and bad without ever meaning to be near the ball.  So to satisfy both these urges by dulling my world I thought I'd try to live as a vegetarian.

This was the wrong move as it turns out. It is impossible to quell any Twelvetrees based desires even with tasty meat and to think tofu alone could do this was poor judgement.

Wikipedia tells me it is made by coagulating soy juice

At Tescos a few days ago I insisted that I needed to buy some tofu, this should have been seen as a warning sign in the first place as I never buy food for use beyond the current day.  On Saturday evening I deemed some form of batter was the best way to serve it.  I was limited to a recipe that just used egg for the batter as I was missing most ingredients needed for tempura.

These beautiful silken slivers were shallow fried and I was feeling pretty good.  Maybe the best I'd felt since arriving at livelounge on Friday. Definitely better than the crushing disappointment of seeing Johnny leave the club minutes later in his usual self righteous fashion.

After this I thought I'd fry up the remaining eggy juice which turned out very bad 

It tasted like fried omelet and it was

The tofu, well it tasted like a block of bland more jellyish egg white in some fried egg.  I read tofu is versatile but that just means it's able to be bad in many situations.  In fact I just saw the boy 6 nations advert and I'd say they are equal in badness.

Today things are back to normal (sorry about the tomatoes)

The worst news is I still have half of the tofu block left.  I will probably have to use it raw in a sandwich tomorrow :(

If after reading all this you feel inspired to try some yourself Amazon happens to sell tofu and recipe books