Any marinade you like
A secret ingredient
The secret to making great tofu is to press the water out of it. Line a baking dish with four sheets of paper towel. Take the block of tofu out of the container, rinse and place on the paper towel. Put four more sheets of paper towel on top of the tofu. Place a plate or another baking dish on top of that. Now, for the secret ingredient: high school textbooks, preferably World History and Biology, although any will do (if you don't have any high school students living in your house, college textbooks or any really heavy books should work just as well). Leave 3 or so books on top of the pile of ingredients for 15 minutes or so. This will press a lot of water out of the tofu.
Remove the tofu from the pan. Throw out the paper towels, ditch the water.
Slice the tofu into slices (inch thick, give or take some thickness - it's up to you!).
Now the fun starts, you can use any marinade you like, or make your own - try mixing things such as oil, vinegar, lemon juice - it's hard to make a mistake. Place some marinade on the bottom of a baking dish, line up the tofu on top of it, and cover the tofu with more marinade. Marinade for 15 minutes to all day. Then bake the tofu for 15 minutes on each side at 350 degrees. Voila!
BTW, my goal is to stop using paper towels and use cotton towels instead to be less wasteful.
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