This boy is deliciously saving a few animals.

As a part of my recent obsession with Buffalo's wonderful signature foodstuffs, I got to thinking: one of Buffalo's most famous wonderful signature foodstuffs is based primarily on deep frying dead animal flesh-wings. Now, we all know that this is a cruel yet delicious Buffalonian practice.

So I was curious: is it possible to take the cruelty out, yet keep the delicious Buffalo-ness in?


Voila! Non-cruel and delicious BUFFALO TOFU WINGS!!!


Recipes for everyone!
Okay, so here is exactly what I did, only now it's all second person perspective:

You'll need...

Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce (the kind with butter already added, adjustments to this should be pretty easy for future veganified wings)
Block of Hard/Extra Hard Tofu from Wegmans (not sure of what kind)
Canola Oil
Corn Starch (I'm sure any flour-like stuff will do)
Bread Crumbs
Frying Pan (I used Desirae's super awesome wok, perfect for submerging tofu pieces)

1. Cut up the tofu fairly thin like (like slices of cheese) and marinate with Frank's in a container for a day or two in the fridge. Make sure tasty hot sauce is touching every millimeter of tofu for maximum deliciousness.

2. Bread crumb + flour into two bowls. Grab the marinated tofu several pieces at a time and toss it into one of the bowls. Make sure the flour won't completely cover all the tofu... the exteriors of the pieces should be a red slimy tofu mess! Mix it up a lot... and mash the tofu together using the flour and stuffs to turn everything into chicken finger-esque pieces. Save the left over sauce!

3. Take each piece and separately coat them even more with flour/crumbs in the second bowl. Each tofu piece should be completely covered in flour now. Put them into yet another bowl.

4. Now hopefully you were heating your oil in the pan this whole time, it should be good by now (I used number 4 on our stove). Place your pieces into the oil and fry 'em until they look tasty.

5. Pile your pieces into a bowl when they're done. Microwave a portion of left over sauce and pour it all over those bad boys. And make sure to place all the pieces in one more bowl (exessive? I know!) so they don't over-soak-up all the pooling sauciness at the bottom.

6. That's it! Eat and share them with a roommate who isn't hungry but can't help themselves because these things look and taste so freakin good. Good luck with the clean up too... 4 bowls, 1 tupperware container, an oily wok, and a flourey/hot saucey counter top later.