Aw, I'm glad you're enjoying reading! I do these kinds of random-or-silly prompts to get quieter folks talking at the beginning of my classes, so perhaps it'll work for me here. :)
Ah, the soy! Yes, that might be an issue. Hm. But if not, it's a great filler in a stir fry--we tend to mix a green of some sort (say, bok toy) with tofu because the tofu will take on the flavor of the sauce and complement the crunchiness of the veggies nicely. (I say "we" here because I actually do cook stir-frys sometimes, though the better half does the vast majority of the cooking and baking in the house.) You may just not have had good tofu. Some of the less-good stuff has a really styrofoam-y, hard-to-swallow texture that puts me off. Nowadays even mainstream stores seem to carry regular and even extra-soft varieties.
The other thing I should mention about the the place I grew up is that it actually *is* less conservative and less homophobic than it used to be--the world's changed quite a bit from the 70s and 80s. It's not all my nostalgia talking! :)
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Date: 2018-02-26 11:55 pm (UTC)Ah, the soy! Yes, that might be an issue. Hm. But if not, it's a great filler in a stir fry--we tend to mix a green of some sort (say, bok toy) with tofu because the tofu will take on the flavor of the sauce and complement the crunchiness of the veggies nicely. (I say "we" here because I actually do cook stir-frys sometimes, though the better half does the vast majority of the cooking and baking in the house.) You may just not have had good tofu. Some of the less-good stuff has a really styrofoam-y, hard-to-swallow texture that puts me off. Nowadays even mainstream stores seem to carry regular and even extra-soft varieties.
The other thing I should mention about the the place I grew up is that it actually *is* less conservative and less homophobic than it used to be--the world's changed quite a bit from the 70s and 80s. It's not all my nostalgia talking! :)
Yes, thank goodness for fanfic.
Thanks for reading and commenting, W! M.