I decided to make this tofu recipe because my brother is vegetarian and I’m trying to eat healthy, and right now I’m really touched at how concerned my brother is about my feelings, because it was just bloody awful. Like, gag reflex-triggering, nausea-inducing AWFUL and I couldn’t bring myself to eat more than a couple bites.

But my brother was trying so hard to pretend to like it, eating it in conjunction with his spinach and broccoli like it was no big thing, saying things like “it’s really not that bad, the sauce is just a little strong, that’s all,” while my mom is literally holding her nose as she observes him eating it. And I was semi-pleading with him to stop eating it, omg.

And then I leaned over to my little dog and said, “Lex, do you like tofu?” and put some in his bowl, he sniffed it and wandered away, and my little sister said, “maybe if you put some in your mouth to show him it’s kind of edible.” And my brother was like, “what do you mean, kind of edible?! It was completely edible! You are very rude!”

And I’m like