Lie food

They look real enough.....

So as part of my new eating habits I am cutting back on meat.  I bought some meatless products to try thinking that if they taste good enough I can make them part of my normal rotation.  Last night I tried meatless buffalo wings, essentially it was tofu with hot sauce and I knew that going into it but thought - hey they look like wings, if they taste like wings this could end up being a boneless grand slam!

So I read the directions and started to make the wings, small problem is that our oven is still not working so I had to do it all stove top. The instructions stated, heat oil, add packet of hot sauce mixture.  Done, I let it heat nicely and sizzle a little and threw the "wings" in to....um.....cook?  I let them go slow and low to try to crispy them up.

When I took them off the heat and plated them they looked pretty much the same as when I put them in, chicken wing shaped tofu.  I took a bite......YUCK!  The tofu didn't suck in the hot sauce flavor as real wings would and I got way too much of that bland tofu taste.  Also the consistency was all wrong, if I am substituting meat for something like this I want to be genuinely happy with the decision and not feel like I have given up something great for something inferior.  With this meal, it was just not the case.  I was only able to eat one before I decided to stop torturing myself.

I have more meatless dishes to try, hopefully I will have better luck with them.

To the great wide meatless AND BEYOND!!!!!!

~CM