Well yes, it’s a raw block of protein to cook with. Meat’s fundamentally the same way, it’s just tofu is at once easier to work with and control the flavor of but also requires you to actually do that. Someone can (but shouldn’t) get away with just seasoning a slab of beef with salt and some beef you don’t even have to really cook for it to be edible, whereas tofu has to be cooked and thoroughly seasoned with warm spices and aromatics, but it’s much easier to make tofu taste good and mesh into a dish than to do the same with beef which wants to overpower whatever it’s put in so it has to go in a heavily seasoned dish to compensate.
I’m so stupid sometimes, I read “olive paste” and thought it was some sort of olive oil based thing when like, duh, you can make a paste out of olives x_x
Well yes, it’s a raw block of protein to cook with. Meat’s fundamentally the same way, it’s just tofu is at once easier to work with and control the flavor of but also requires you to actually do that. Someone can (but shouldn’t) get away with just seasoning a slab of beef with salt and some beef you don’t even have to really cook for it to be edible, whereas tofu has to be cooked and thoroughly seasoned with warm spices and aromatics, but it’s much easier to make tofu taste good and mesh into a dish than to do the same with beef which wants to overpower whatever it’s put in so it has to go in a heavily seasoned dish to compensate.
You can 100% raw dog that shit though. A lot of vegan recipes like vegan feta or vegan sour cream use raw tofu as a base for it
I’ve been doing toast with olive paste and sliced tofu on top for my go to, after work meal.
I’m so stupid sometimes, I read “olive paste” and thought it was some sort of olive oil based thing when like, duh, you can make a paste out of olives x_x