Best Tofu Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The tofu pocket is soaked with butter, every bite of it drenching the lips... ... sending rich waves gushing through the mouth. Just one taste is enough to seep both tongue and mind in a thick flood of butter! "The tofu pocket is so juicy it's nearly dripping, yet it hasn't drowned the filling at all. The rice is delectably fluffy and delicate, done in true pilaf style, with the grains separate, tender and not remotely sticky. Simmered in fragrant chicken broth, the prawns give it a delightful crunch, while ample salt and pepper boost both its flavor and aroma!" "The whole dish is strongly flavored, but it isn't the least bit heavy or sticky. The deliciousness of every ingredient, wrapped in a cloak of rich butter, wells up with each bite like a gushing, savory spring! How on earth did you manage to create this powerful a flavor?!" "Well, first I sautéed the rice for the pilaf without washing it- one of the major rules of pilafs! If you wash all the starch off the rice, the grains get crumbly and the whole thing can wind up tasting tacky instead of tender. Then I thoroughly rinsed the tofu pockets with hot water to wash off the extra oil so they'd soak up the seasonings better. But the biggest secret to the whole thing... ... was my specially made Mochi White Sauce! Normal white sauce is made with lots of milk, butter and flour, making it really thick and heavy. But I made mine using only soy milk and mochi, so it's still rich and creamy without the slightest hint of greasiness. In addition, I sprinkled a blend of several cheeses on top of everything when I put it in the oven to toast. They added some nice hints of mellow saltiness to the dish without making it too heavy! Basically, I shoved all the tasty things I could think of into my dish... ... pushing the rich, savory flavor as hard as I could until it was just shy of too much... and this is the result!" Some ingredients meld with the butter's richness into mellow deliciousness... ... while others, sautéed in butter, have become beautifully savory and aromatic. Into each of these little inari sushi pockets has gone an immense amount of work across uncountable steps and stages. Undaunted by Mr. Saito's brilliant dish, gleaming with the fierce goodness of seafood... each individual ingredient is loudly and proudly declaring its own unique deliciousness!”

Pockets Rice Sushi Butter Souma Yukihira Tofu Mochi Inari

Book:食戟のソーマ 28 [Shokugeki no Souma 28]

Source: 食戟のソーマ 28 [Shokugeki no Souma 28]

“I've been to great vegan restaurants. Ones where instead of being served simply steamed, the beets were roasted and chopped into a tartare with shiso and toasted hazelnuts and served with fried gnocco dough, crisp, puffed and golden, like a clever tartare. Vegan restaurants where the waterier vegetables like zucchini and yellow squash are treated with even more care: chunks of grilled zucchini surrounded by a vibrant yellow squash purée with chili crunch, lime, and fresh mint, served with fresh-from-the-oven vegan barley bread for ripping and dipping. I've also had amazing vegan desserts. Once, in class, Claire made a chocolate cake layered with a creamy tofu mousse, rhubarb gelée, strawberry sauce, and fudge crunch, using no gross heavy olive oils or coconut cream. It was magnificent!”

Restaurants Vegan Vegetables Seasonings Desserts Tofu Vegan Food

Book:Off Menu

Source: Off Menu

“If you already hate tofu, the term "tofu skin" is probably an effective emetic. But this stuff is addictive. You start by making fresh soy milk. I'm not going to soft-pedal how much work this is: you have to soak, grind, squeeze, and simmer dried soybeans. The result is a thick milk entirely unlike the soy milk you get in a box at Whole Foods in the same way Parmigiano-Reggiano is unlike Velveeta. Then, to make tofu skins (yuba in Japanese), you simmer the soy milk gently over low heat until a skin forms on the surface, then pluck it off with your fingers and drape it over a chopstick to dry. It is exactly like the skin that forms on top of pudding, the one George Costanza wanted to market as Pudding Skin Singles. Yuba doesn't look like much- like a pile of discarded raw chicken skin, honestly. But the texture is toothsome, and with each bite you're rewarded with the flavor of fresh soy milk. It's best served with just a few drops of soy sauce and maybe some grated ginger or sliced negi. "I'm kind of obsessed with tofu skins right now," said Iris, poking her head into the fridge to grab a round of yuba. Me too. In Seattle, I had to buy, grind, boil, and otherwise toil for a few sheets of yuba. In Tokyo, I found it at Life Supermarket, sold in a single-serving plastic tub with a foil top. The yuba wasn't as snappy or flavorful as homemade, but it had that characteristic fresh-soy aroma, which to me smells like a combination of "healthy forest" and "clean baby." Iris and I ate it greedily. (The yuba, not the baby.) Yuba isn't technically tofu, because the soy milk isn't coagulated. Japanese tofu comes in two basic categories, much like underpants: cotton (momen) and silken (kinugoshi). Cotton tofu is the kind eaten most commonly in the U.S.; if you buy a package of extra-firm tofu and cut it up for stir-frying, that's definitely cotton tofu. Silken tofu is fragile, creamier and more dairy-like than cotton-tofu, and it's the star of my favorite summer tofu dish. Hiya yakko is cubes of tofu, usually silken, drizzled with soy sauce and judiciously topped with savory bits: grated ginger or daikon, bonito flakes, negi. It's popular in Japanese bars and easy to make at home, which I did, with (you will be shocked to hear) tons of fresh negi.”

Cotton Skin Tofu Soy Milk Silken Yuba

Book:Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

“Stewed arame and deep-fried tofu. Okra croquettes. Kikuna leaves dressed with sesame and miso. Kurama-style sardine. Hirosu tofu ball in broth. Pork belly simmered in Kyobancha tea. Fresh tofu curd with sour plum paste. Oh, and Kioshi's rice-bran-pickled cucumbers. Nothing too extravagant. If anything, the highlights are probably the firmly cooked Goshu rice and the miso soup with ebi-imo taro. Anyway, enjoy the meal. Oh, and make sure you put a good sprinkle of sansho pepper on the soup--- it'll warm you right up.”

Kyoto Japanese Food Tofu Miso

Book:The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Source: The Kamogawa Food Detectives

“Look at the way the rice is shining... it looks like jewels. Each grain of rice retains its original shape... and they're all the same size too. It's stickiness and scent... it's been washed to perfection. Washing the rice just to rinse off the dirt and excess bran without wasting the flavor and scent of the rice is extremely difficult. I made my fortune before the war at the rice market... I still find time to do research on rice. I'm sure I can figure out what this rice is and where it comes from... It's Sasanishiki... but it's not from Miyagi. It's Shonai rice, from Amarume-Yamagata prefecture! Well?! " "That is correct!" "Wow... he guessed the type of rice and where it came from!" "I don't believe it!" "This rice has been dried under sunlight, not by machine--- and you milled it right here, just before washing it, didn't you?" You cook it over an old-fashioned furnace using firewood for fuel... and just before steaming it, you throw a handful of straw into the fire if you want to cook rice like this." "Yes." "Then this miso soup too... Ah... it's real miso made from domestic soy and natural salt. The dashi is made from katsuobushi, an obushi from Makurazaki. And he used the good part in the center. And the tofu is made with domestic soybeans and real brine. Aah... this is so good that it's making me cry!”

Rice Washing Tofu Japanese Cooking Miso Soup

Book:The Joy of Rice

Source: The Joy of Rice

“As Hideji's gaze skipped between the various dishes, Nagare went on: 'Stewed arame and deep-fried tofu. Okara croquettes. Kikuna leaves dressed with sesame and miso. Kurama-style sardine. Hirosu tofu ball in broth. Pork belly simmered in Kyobancha tea. Fresh tofu curd with sour plum paste. Oh, and Kioshi's rice-bran-pickled cucumbers. Nothing too extravagant. If anything, the highlights are probably the firmly cooked Goshu rice and the miso soup with ebi-imo taro. Anyway, enjoy the meal. Oh, and make sure you put a good sprinkle of sansho pepper on the soup--- it'll warm you right up.”

Japanese Cuisine Tofu Miso

Book:The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Source: The Kamogawa Food Detectives

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...”

Swearing Profanity Shit Tofu

Author:David Sedaris

“The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.”

Spirit Useless Trash Old Tofu

Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“I had the brilliant idea of making gyeranjjim, a steamed, savory egg custard usually served as a side dish at Korean restaurants bringing their A game. Nutritious with a mild and soothing flavor, it was one of my favorites growing up. I looked up a recipe online. I cracked four eggs into a small bowl and beat them with a fork. I searched the kitchen cabinets, found one of my mother's earthenware pots, and heated it over the stove, adding the beaten eggs, salt, and three cups of water. I put the lid on and after fifteen minutes returned to find it had come out perfectly soft and jiggly, like a pale yellow, silken tofu.”

Cooking Eggs Tofu Custard Korean Cuisine Silken

Book:Crying in H Mart

Source: Crying in H Mart

“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”

Shows Kids School Parent Black Clothes Sticks Giants Vegetarian Sandwiches Tofu Celery

Author:Aisha Tyler

“Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?”

People Thinking Littles Use Bigs Certain Empty Holes Bread Ass Holiday Vegan Turkeys Rice Beans November Ovens Bacteria Tofu Lentils

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.”

Ifs World Kind America Impact South Enormous Meat Damage Beans Amazon South America Tofu Soy Impact On The World

Author:Michael Pollan

“The beautiful memories of tofu from when I was young”

Beautiful Young Memories Tofu Beautiful Memories

Author:Onew

“I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner”

Bigs Energy Black Morning Drink Fruit Fishes Dinner Meat Shakes Eggs Lunch Every Morning Beans Tofu Soy Soybeans

Author:Shania Twain

“Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.”

Long Different Play Bigs Term Hours Team Greek Meals Chickens Workout Rice Bananas Pasta Yogurt Carbs Tofu Greek Yogurt

Author:Kim Smith

“Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.”

People Mean Long Fun Months Percent Shots Raised Eight Vegetarian Ninety Steak Livestock Tofu Soy Long Shots Ninety Eight

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.”

Years Water Smart Wake Up Vegetarian Bottles Vegan Thirsty Onions Peppers Salsa Spinach Tofu

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Valentine's Day is celebrated a little differently here in L.A. Nobody eats chocolate because of the calories, so people give each other tofu-shaped boxes filled with bean curd. Then they fantasize about what their Pilates instructor would be like if he was straight.”

People Ifs Giving Littles Would Be Filled Boxes Chocolate Valentine Valentine's Day Beans Calories Instructors Pilates Tofu

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.”

Wells Preparing Tofu Preparing Food

Author:Al Madrigal

“We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.”

Want Years Heart Whole Might Black Healthy Eating Lows Bird Red Add Plant Fats Alternatives Meat Chickens Grain Beans Protein Red Meat Tofu Whole Grains Lentils

Author:Kathy Freston

“Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!”

Down And Barack Steak Sean Keith Dine Asparagus Tofu

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.”

Might Night Order Three Pieces Sweet Healthy Husband Fruit Eight Nine Brown My Husband Chocolate Cake Pie Mud Rice Noon Tofu Mud Pies

Author:Sara Blakely

“For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER”

Gentle Vegetarian Tofu

Author:Adam Rex

“Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.”

People Thinking Food Calling Insult Mexican Tacos Tofu

Book:Rules of Attraction

Source: Rules of Attraction

“I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen”

Littles I Can Courses Jokes Compare Vegetarian Milk Living On Tofu Soy Inside Jokes Soy Milk

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.”

Sometimes Security Sick Filled Bones Planes Boxing Sense Of Humor Knives Stakes Strict Sections Airports Carrier Tofu Airport Security Filled Out

Book:Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel

“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.”

Ends Done Reality Fantasy Sweet Taste Summer Red Gold Wine Meat Brown Silver Honey Plastic Ashes Mud Beans Olives Scarlet Fantasy Books Cinnamon Azure Red Meat Indigo Tofu Obsidian

Book:Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective

Source: Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective

“Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide.”

Want I Can Evil Dog Smell Proof Bread Satan Apples Cake Almighty Candy Pizza Chili Tofu

Author:Jim Butcher

“The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American”

Way Said Figures Conversion Enthusiasm Representatives New Ways Threshold Jogging Tofu

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.”

Trying Sticks Fruit Heavy Diets Vegetarian Vegan Vegetables Funny Inspirational Fruits And Vegetables Vegan Diet Vegetarian Diet Tofu

Author:Clint Eastwood

“You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.”

Knows Use Funny Interesting Products Balance Findings Treatment Cigarette Pretentious Lasers Tofu

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“It's gross. We use real brains - I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.”

Thinking Real Use Brain Fingers Smell Eggs Cows Gross Lambs Intestines Tofu Scrambled Eggs

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.”

Seems Energy Position Exercise Sitting Chairs Tofu Orientalism Futons

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.”

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.”

Fantasy Gold Silver Scarlet Fantasy Books Azure Indigo Tofu Obsidian

Book:Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective

Source: Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective

“I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.”

People Ifs Want Should Restaurants Shops Want Something Trays Tofu

Author:Yasujiro Ozu

“I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.”

I Can Stuff Directors Fancy Tofu

Author:Yasujiro Ozu

“Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.”

Real Worst Dog Products Hot Meat Being Real Thrill Being Me Hot Dog Tofu

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.”

Ifs Has Beens Play Might Jobs Guy Jesus Dog Missing Serious Kings Yeah Prison Teeth Tennis Afternoon Saturday Truck Beans Carpenter Sprouts Driveway Tofu King David Saturday Afternoon

Author:Mark Driscoll

“I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.”

Trying Products Essentials Sticks Fruit Heavy Diets Vegetarian Vegan Vegetables Vitamins Supplements Vegan Diet Tofu Soy

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.”

Men Mind Long Evil One Thing Roots Extras Clip Tofu

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.”

Mind Taste Tofu

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.”

Giving Energy Source Flavor Energy Sources Tofu

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats, but then we all became vegans, so we've been sacrificing tofu before the shows!”

Wells Shows Used Sacrifice Vegan Goats Tofu

Author:Jared Leto

“For a healthy alternative to buffalo wings, slide the bone of a human finger into a block of tofu and bake.”

Humans Healthy Wings Fingers Bones Block Alternatives Slides Buffalo Tofu

Author:Giada De Laurentiis

“The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.”

Mind Depends Taste Mindfulness Insight Flavor Tofu

Author:Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

“If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.”

Ifs Enough Eggs Substitutes Ingredients Bananas Tofu

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.”

Sponges Tofu

Author:Sylvia Browne

“I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.”

Kids Enjoy Husband Dinner My Husband Ginger Chopping Tofu

Author:Sadie Frost

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