EPTThis reminds me of this one speech this one guy had for English class. It was something about vegetarian superiority and something from what I heard. What the hell? That's like a sc1 elitist. I got another argument for those elitists, the both of them, but I only know it'll end up nowhere. Those damn vegetarian elitists think they're better? What the hell. Another thing that ticks me off, but doesn't super tick me off is how the one guy's speech about vegetarian elitists starts off with the word "imagine." My entire grade has been assigned these long term speech assignments and I swear, almost half of these god damned speeches start with the word "imagine." What the hell is wrong with them? Nothing, it's me who's wrong getting caught up about nothing.
I've been experimenting with tofu. I've also limited my beverages to only water and soymilk. That's practically soylent. A friend of mine has alerted me of the potential dangers of soy though and that led me to do some research. I found about these nefarious phytoestrogens lurking in the wibbly wobbly innards of the tofu I've been eating. Apparently they can act as endocrine blockers? Anyway, the answer as to whether or not soy is healthy or not isn't as simple as answering yes or no, it's complex, and the answer continues to be of growing urgency as soy consumption is increasing rapidly among the earth. Before you know it endocrine blockers are going to be destroying everyone's bodies like the 1918 flu pandemic.
Despite this, I continue to eat tofu. I've been pan frying it with olive oil, because olive oil above all oils is the most healthiest. Use olive oil as much as you can, it's one of the good fats your body can have, but don't use it for deep frying or anything because olive oil has a low heating point so it goes up in flames easily. For deep frying you probably want to use peanut oil.
Anyway, I've been pan frying tofu, adding some soy sauce, and that's it. It's beautifully simple. I've been experimenting with different brands of tofu. So far I've concluded that they all taste the same. However, the Whole Foods brand I've tasted is slightly more robust in flavor. It's hard to describe but I'd say it tastes more like tofu than the other brands I've tasted. On the other hand, the Nasoya tofu lite product tastes strangely rich, like a really bland marzano tomato, except with the nice firmness and texture of tofu. Recently I started adding some salt and pepper, but not so much salt because the soy sauce adds a good amount of saltiness by itself. The seasonings really make a difference and the aroma during the frying process when I add the pepper is amazing. It's telicherry pepper, very exquisite stuff.
During cooking I make sure to add the seasonings during the cooking of the food, not after.. I learned this from watching Gordon Ramsay, fine chef connoisseur, and master of the beef wellington dish who frequently says that too many chefs add their seasonings after they're done cooking.
I recently ran out of my soy sauce though. It's a good thing that tofu soaks up pretty much whatever you put into it. I put some yakisoba sauce, which is sauce for japanese style fried chicken and I thought this might go well on fried tofu, but then I thought the yakisoba was violently sweet, far too overpowering even for my senses. I thought for a second about ketchup, but then lamented thinking of how disgusting that would taste. Damn it, I ate some sushi and there were some soy sauce packets in there. I threw them out along with the wasabi. What a goddamn fool I am. I should've saved them.
I recently bought a new brand of tofu called Soy Boy. The rhyme was amusing, but the tofu was disappointingly bland, like how tofu is supposed to taste. I don't know what I was expecting.
I remember eating this vegan chicken burrito I bought. I had no idea what vegan meant but I ate it anyway. The chicken tasted good, I thought. When I went back home I did some research and saw that vegan meant a food item without any products from animals including eggs, dairy, and of course, meat. I bet the vegan elitists are one step up on the vegetarian elitists. This is some next level stuff here I can't process in my brain right now. Now it's the vegetarians who are looked down upon. I digress, the vegan chicken burrito was damn delicious and I was amazed tofu could taste so similar to chicken. I one day hope to make tofu that is made to replicate the delicioso texture and taste of chicken.
Other than my tofu voyeurism, I've started playing sc2 WoL again ever since I got a new computer. It's pretty damn smooth like how cold soymilk goes down my throat. I realize now the perspective of sc2 players coming into Brood War and the overall feel and way they handle everything. So far I've had trouble using the camera hotkeys. For Brood War it's always f2, f3, f4, but for starcraft I have to reach all the way up to f3, f4, f5, and I keep using the select all army button like a noob. Damn, my hotkeys are all over the place, but that's okay. I feel really uncomfortable pressing tab to cycle through different buildings. Also, larva injects are hella impossible for me to understand and I suck at creep spread. I've decided to just main race Terran for now. I pwn pretty good sometimes but when I do dumb stuff off of one base I end up losing. I tried learning some build orders. So far I've learned the basic openers for all three races. Damn, there are a lot of Protoss, that's cool though because marauders are awesome. I've peaked only at diamond. I can't seem to go any further. It's tough competition, folks.
Besides Sc2, I've been watching Destiny livestream every chance I get because he's playing that new RTS game, Grey Goo. I really want to play but that costs money which is something I don't have right now. My favorite race so far is the Goo race just because of how uniquely it works separate from the two other races, even more different than how Zerg is different than Terran and Protoss.
I guess that concludes today's blog. Thanks for reading and have a good day. Olive oil is good for you.
