Making tofu

[TeeDee]

I think its great that you've got experimental and smashed something out with your own hands.

Recently I've made Duck Proscuttio , today I've made some Chorizo sausages for curing and hanging and tomorrow I fancy have a try at home made Mozzarella.

Getting hands on and experimental is a good thing.

 

[Woody girl]

I think its great that you've got experimental and smashed something out with your own hands.

Recently I've made Duck Proscuttio , today I've made some Chorizo sausages for curing and hanging and tomorrow I fancy have a try at home made Mozzarella.

Getting hands on and experimental is a good thing.

Yes it's quite good fun and very satisfying.when something turns out well. I've had a few failures this year though! This seems to be so easy, has lots of uses in cooking, and is a healthy and versatile alternative to meat, protein wise.

 

[Erbswurst]

It was just a joke!
Eat what you like!

 

[John Fenna]

Good, tasty, nutritious food is good whatever it is made from.
Bad, boring, texture-less,, insipid food is bad no matter what it is made from.
If it is straightforward and not messed about with (ie a good steak) rather than knitted soy protein that has to be made by some alchemic process so much the better.
Pass me the Soylent Green please..... ?

 

[Tengu]

Tofu is all well and good if you have soya beans.

(But soya beans are best made into soy sauce, -something that stores well and is tasty).

 

[Toddy]

Good, tasty, nutritious food is good whatever it is made from.
Bad, boring, texture-less,, insipid food is bad no matter what it is made from.
If it is straightforward and not messed about with (ie a good steak) rather than knitted soy protein that has to be made by some alchemic process so much the better.
Pass me the Soylent Green please..... ?

We are the cooking apes. Soy protein is simply cooked beans.

Even quorn is just micro mushroom protein.

Seitan is wheat gluten.

None of it needs knitted.

I do agree though that bad, boring, texture-less and insipid food isn't good.....but then I like porage, and mashed spuds, and peas, and polenta, and rice....so define boring and insipid ?

M

 

[John Fenna]

Cooked well none of that lot is boring and insipid - subtle flavours perhaps but not insipid
I love rice (wholegrain - not polished white) and porage (made with water and served with salt and a splash of milk) is a standard breakfast for me. Supermarket white "bread" is something I avoid as much as possible as it is as bad as tufu ....
Stuff like "Beanfeast" gives me crippling wind and generally soy disagrees with my digestion - as does an excess of gluten

 

[Tengu]

A lot of people cant stomach soya products easily.

My Dad cant...Though he can eat quorn.

Ive heard unprocessed soya is bad for you. The chinese always seem to process it.

 

[Toddy]

@John Fenna

Looking for something else, tripped across this older thread.

No, I'm in agreement with you on the beanfeast. That really is tortured vegetable protein. I like tvp, but no one else in the house is fond of it. Beanfeast is just a double dose of indigestion.

I think mushroom are much under-rated as an ingredient in veggie burgers and mince kind of meals though.

Coarsely grated mushrooms, or firm tofu, makes a really good mince substitute for recipes that need that body and texture. Shepherdess' pie, lasagne, chilli, that kind of thing.

M

 

[Woody girl]

Beanfeast was a standard camping go to in the 70's and 80's. Havnt seen it around for a long time. But it was filling, cheap, quick and easy.
Soy protein can be a problem if you are not used to it. It takes a while for the digestive system to be able to adapt to deal with it properly.
I ate it a lot in the 70's, but not had access to it for many years. Finaly found some soya chunks a few weeks ago, which I used to make a lovely "steak" pie with.
Been going through all my recipe books, (many of which went to the charity shop on Friday, as I don't eat the same as I once did,) while looking for the recipe.
Can't blooming well find it.
Grrrrrrr!