Customer Reviews

101 Things to Do with Tofu

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I have been a vegetarian for over 30 years. I needed some new inspiration!
I have looked at & bought many "new" vegetarian cookbooks. Many seem to think one's life revolves around making a meal that takes special ingredients, gadgets, cookware & time to produce. ...Please.
I need more work week, tasty meals that appeal to the regular every day family. Not to say there are no special recipes in this book, there are a number of them. However, I love this book because for the most part, I have the ingredients in my pantry or can pick them up at the regular super market.

If you have a vegetarian in the family or just want to add tofu to your diet this book goes a long way to help you get started and makes it quite easy. It includes everything from main dishes to desserts.

I got this book from our library's interlibrary loan system so that I could see what it looked like before buying it. The recipes are excellent and look very delicious, but if you don't tolerate dairy this book may not work well for you. It has a lot of cheese, yogurt, sour cream, and even wheat products in the recipes. So if you can tolerate such and just want a change of menu with tofu in it, then this book will be wonderful for you.

If you have allergies or food sensitivities of any kind then you probably could find a better book that works with the types of food substitutes needed for such a need.

For the recipes that are "safe" for a food sensitivity issue, this book still looks good. I am glad that I got a chance to try out some of the recipes as I do believe real food cooking is the healthiest. For those of us who know what substitutes can be used in place of traditional dairy and gluten foods, this book would still work. It is still the reason that I buy and look at regular type cookbooks as many people don't know the substitutes. If you know the substitutes, you can buy any cook book and use it well. Cheers to the author for writing such wonderful delicious recipes.

I am trying desperately to integrate more soy into our diet, but have no clue what to do with this soggy white brick called tofu. This book is taking me through the very basics of preparation, storage and use of this healthful alien to our cuisine.

New at eating vegetarian and especially making tofu. This is one of those reference manuals that I just keep going back to when I need to. Love the receipes and found out that I love tofu too!!!

Although the cover isn't that eye catching, the title of this book was intriguing as it's not everyone who has the guts to put out a cookbook for... tofu?!

I've been eating a vegan/vegan diet on and off over the years and tofu is a part of my regular diet. I welcome new recipes and as soon as I cracked this cookbook I saw interesting recipes I was eager to try.

I agree that many recipes (especially remakes of old favorites) use alot of dairy. However, there are plenty of non-dairy substitutes that are easy replacements.

For butter or margarine: Earth Balance or Smart Balance
For mayo: Earth Balance, Vegannaise
For cream cheese/sour cream: Tofutti, Better Than Cream Cheese, Dr Cow
For vegan Cheese: Daiya, Cheezley, Teese, Parma Zaan
For non-dairy cheese: Lisanatti Almond/Rice, Tofutti

I love reading this cookbook and now I am ready to cook from it -- I'll update with some results.

Lots of recipes but none that I want to make. Tried two recipes and they weren't very good. Gave mine away. Gave it two stars because it arrived promptly and the friend I gave it to liked it.