Tofu..

i just tried it for the first time. i made a tofu stirfry. The thing with tofu is that it has no flavor so it is all about how you cook it and what sauces ect. you put on it. It was really filling and the stirfry turned out good but personally i dont like it due to its texture. it is soft and mushy

I wouldn't eat it and I eat worms and grubs and tree bark. Tofu is nasty.

Well, here's the thing about tofu. It doesn't have much flavor on its own, but it can be a great way to get some vegetarian protein if you put it into things. My former husband was a vegan, so I learned to do a lot with tofu... things like blending it up into a chocolate pudding, putting cubes of it into a salad (where it will take on the flavor of whatever dressing you use), blending it to be the cream base of a soup, or marinating it and baking it as a substitute for meat. I don't know if it's still in print (check on Amazon), but I HIGHLY recommend a cookbook called Tofu Cookery by Louise Hagler. It used to be my go-to cookbook while lots of others sat on the shelves. Good recipes, lots of pictures (love the pictures!)

Can't comment on the French fry recipe-- I guess it would depend on the recipe. If it's just plain tofu and not much else, they'd probably be pretty bland, and wouldn't taste much like French fries.

Ha ha... edited to add that someone above wrote the same thing about no flavor while I was writing mine. Great minds think alike. : ) Also, remember that as far as texture, you can get soft tofu for things like puddings and creamy recipes, and then firm tofu for cutting into cubes in stir-fries, etc.

Tofu is an excellent source of protien, vegetarians use it all the time and it really doesn't have much flavor it absorbs the flavor of the recipe and you can use is sliced the hard kind in more manageable or shallow fry then add to your recipe its up to you. try it you'll like it.

Mae sure your drain the tofu first, if you bought one that's packed in water: wrap it in a clean kitchen towel, place it on a baking sheet, place a plate on top and then something heavy on that. Leave for at least half an hour, otherwise it can be really moist. As other posters said, it takes on whatever flavor you want to give it, you can buy different types to get different textures, and you could even put it in the freezer then thaw it to get a different texture. If tofu isn't cooked well, yeah, it's kind of gross, you just have to know how to cook it.