I tried making some tonight because I was told it was a good thing to eat
for protein when you have gout. It didn't go over some well. Granted I
didn't have some of the ingredients that the recipe called for. Namely
Tamari and fresh ginger. The only other ingredient was a lot of fresh
garlic which I did have. I used the regular soy sauce that I did have and a
little powdered ginger. I also added some green onions because some of the
reviewers for the recipe said that it didn't have a lot of flavor. You're
supposed to cut it (extra firm tofu) in cubes, marinate it in the other
ingredients then fry it for 20 minutes in a little oil.

I also made some fried rice as best I could given the dietary limitations.
For the vegetables I used zucchini and yellow summer squash, green onion,
carrot, celery and 3 colors of bell pepper. The rice was brown and I used
some of that egg product that is really only the whites of the egg colored
yellow. Also garlic and soy sauce. Angela said that was good. But I did
make a ton of it hoping that my husband would eat that. I had hoped if I
didn't provide much else besides fruit and veg, he might just eat that. But
it's looking like he won't.

We have to go shopping tomorrow for some more groceries. So how else can I
fix the tofu? Yes, I know it can be used in place of cheese but I don't
need to do that because cheese isn't bad for gout.

Or maybe I should just skip it totally. I think maybe he would be more
likely to eat scrambled eggs with vegetables and a side of toast.

I've never really had to deal with tofu before. I think I may have tried it
once when I was younger and didn't like it. And I know I have had it a few
times in a restaurant and didn't like it. But he usually likes foreign
foods and loves garlic. I have found that he and the men in his family will
eat pretty much anything so long as I put enough garlic or hot pepper in it.
But this seems not to apply to the tofu.