FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 12, 2009

I have never found out what the allure of tofu holds for people. My wife loves it and I am a foody. I love just everything from foie gras to oysters on the half shell, but tofu leaves me cold. Give me Rocky Mt. Oysters any day, but you can save the tofu for my wife.

Only Andi could ruin Peeps…

She used saffron? Those will be disgusting and expensive…

EEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!

now that oughta be illegal!

That woman must be STOPPED before the culinary arts are completely annihilated!

what the hell is tofu?

Tofu is bean curd (or coagulated soy milk).

YIPE!!!!! RUN FOR THE HILLS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!!

Dependable ol’ Mom, cluelessly striving to turn the FUN part of holidays into holistic, macrobiotic, Earth-friendly, innards-cleansing goodness.

LOL!!! What amazes me is that Roger ate it.

Happy Easter, all!

Does Andy EAT her own food?

She’s probably the only one who does.

Sorry Margueritem,Peeps come preruined. I’d rather eat tofu. They’re one of those things that I’m glad only come around once a year. Well, they used to, now there are peep 4th of July stars and peep turkeys and peep Santas. Apparently you can make anything out of peeps, much like tofu! We’d get peeps when the kids were little, and at the end of the day the only candy left was the peeps. But that’s ok, it’ll be just as good next year!

@DypakPro: Try a microwaved peep or a peep cooked over a fire. So much better gooey!

Out-of-the-box Peeps aren’t so great.

TOFU peeps?

Zeta - You know, that doesnt sound half bad. Maybe peep’s smores even? I wonder if the peeps people have recipe contests. Could be they might turn out to be as useful as, oh, I dont know. Duck tape?

Andy’s peeps-a weapon of mass destruction

YAK

No tofu peeps here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/03/21/GA2008032101983.html

The only place I have ever found tofu to be good is in Chinese Hot & Sour soup.

“Please pass(on)the Peeps.”

Peeps now come in different colors and shapes for several events around the year. I recently bought purple Peeps for this Easter and have had cute Peep bunnies of some forgotten color in previous years. And Halloween black cat Peeps with charming little whiskers.

The official Peeps (reg. TM) website http://www.marshmallowpeeps.com/ shows there are also Valentine’s and Christmas products. Worth a visit.

I used to enjoy putting them in the microwave and letting them blow up really big, then taking them out really quick and sticking a fork in them while they’re still poofy: BAM! Peep soup! (It didn’t taste any less disgusting, but it was fun.)

Those are definitely going in the microwave!

I’m beginning to think she’s doing this on purpose.

Jury’s still out on tofu, but I know I hate marshmallow – so keep the peeps!

remind me to fry those peeps in the microwave too….

cleokaya says:

I have never found out what the allure of tofu holds for people. My wife loves it and I am a foody. I love just everything from foie gras to oysters on the half shell, but tofu leaves me cold. Give me Rocky Mt. Oysters any day, but you can save the tofu for my wife.

You might like Agadashi Tofu. The Japanese make it taste wonderful!Yum!Really!

Bulaaaaaak!   Andy’s fetish for healthy food in the face of all logic, reason or her family’s approval is only one of the reasons I keep coming back to FoxTrot…

Saffron Chic. Fancy that. Duck tape? What’s that for? Taping quackers together? Or did you man it as a bird joke? Cheap! (I mean Cheep!)

The cartoon for Sunday April 18 was marvelous. Had a lot of fun solving it. Told my math loving children to be sure and look out for it

Perhaps the ultimate condemnation of tofu came from a bagpiper I know: “Tofu tastes pretty much like nothing at all.”

Why hasn’t Mr. Amend picked up on the following brilliant parody?

http://www.lordofthepeeps.com/

How about these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeps http://www.peepresearch.org/

From my (limited) experience, that’s right… tofu tastes pretty much like nothing at all.

Someone trying to use it for its taste isn’t using it right. You use it to add texture to a dish that’s got enough flavor on its own, as a healthy filler.

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WOW FUNNY!

i think i gotta go puke,,,,, thats just nasty

Tofu is something you need to cook with other stuff. It absorbs the flavours of the other ingredients. What Andy is doing to it is just wrong!

I love marshmallow peeps™

Where is she getting saffron. An OUNCE is basically 6 bucks.

Andy sets the thermostat to near-Arctic levels to save money – but she cooks with saffron?