Give Peas a Chance...and Tofu, Too!

as a kid, there were a lot of veggies i didn't eat...usually i wouldn't even try them, but even when i made an attempt i usually didn't enjoy the taste. of course as the years went on, i grew up and my tastes changed, and i began enjoying my veggies. but for some reason, peas just never tasted good to me. it wasn't until a few years ago that i started liking (and eventually LOVING) the taste of peas. i guess sometimes you need to keep trying things and eventually you get used to and begin to really like them.

since becoming vegan, this has been the case with tofu. most of the recipes which called for the meat-substitutes such as seitan, tempeh, tofu, etc. were recipes i avoided in the beginning. i had never before eaten these ingredients, nor had i seen anyone prepare them...therefore they intimidated the heck out of me! i stayed away from all of them until last year when my husband urged me to give it a try. i purchased some seitan and made a recipe from alicia silverstone's "the kind diet"...and the end product was a delicious rendition of chicken piccata. after that we started making seitan dishes often. more recently we've been cooking with tempeh, but i still refused to make anything with tofu. i even bought some tofu months back, which sat in my refrigerator way passed the expiration date and ended up in the trash. i had tried tofu a few times, and i couldn't stand the consistency.

going through more recipes, steve (yes, i guess i'm finally introducing him by name...steve is my husband) came across a recipe for BBQ tofu and told me we should try it. i figured my dislike of tofu shouldn't keep him from trying it; maybe after this he'd see how icky it was!! so we put it on our grocery list for the week and a few days later...we tried it.

BBQ tofu is now my favorite thing we make. every tuesday before grocery shopping we plan out our menu list for the week...and every week i insist that we must have BBQ tofu on the list. it just goes to show that even now later in my life when i KNOW i should continue to give foods a chance after not loving them the first or second time, that it is so important to keep trying!

i decided when i started this blog that i only want to post recipes of things i can take photos of...so while you will be seeing a BBQ tofu recipe on here in a few days w/pic, we will start our recipe list off with another tofu dish. Cheezy Scramble coming up...