Vegan Cheese

I know, I've been lacking in my food posts...and what really sucks about this food post is, well, I have no photos...if you want to see photos of this cheese I'm going to HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU MAKE - go here - Noveleats....pretty huh? Along with this being pretty damn good cheese! Now, of course, I didn't follow the recipe to the "T" - more like I followed it like "Dee" because I like my food over the top flavorful - So these are my amounts I used for this vegan cheese:

1/4 cup (mounded cup) nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unbleached flour
1/2 heaping teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 heaping teaspoon dried yellow mustard powder
1/2 heaping teaspoon of onion powder
1/4 teaspoon of paprika
fresh ground pepper to taste
1 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoon vegan butter

Then I followed her instructions:
First, mix the dry ingredients together in a medium sized saucepan.

Mixing dry ingredients together for vegan cheese
Add the water and mix well, then add the vegan butter.

Mixing the water with the dry ingredients
Put the pan on the stove, and turn on the heat to medium to medium-high and whisk continuously. As soon as you start to notice it getting thick (and it gets thick pretty fast), you may want to switch to a spoon to stir. Turn off the heat soon thereafter.

I served this on steamed broccoli with a baked potato- awesome. This is the best cheese sauce recipe I've come across...and I've made many. And what is really cool about this sauce is that it doesn't get all lumpy when it's cold- it's smooth as a babies bottom, when you take the leftovers out of the fridge.

Thank you Novaleats for posting this vegan cheese recipe - it will be a staple in our house!
5 out of 5 forks!

Vat-O-Cheese

Contemplating dinner last night, I had a few factors that was going to determine what was going to be served. One, I need to use up stuff before Goods and I venture to my parents for Thanksgiving, two, I wanted to try a new Mac & Cheese recipe since I want to make it for our Thanksgiving fest...and three, I've been on a mission to find the best mac & cheese. I decided try the cheese sauce from Vegan Dad's website, but instead of noodles, we put the sauce on baked potatoes- the potatoes were starting to sprout eyes, so they needed to be used. Here is the VAT of cheese sauce that the recipe made.

And here is the recipe link -
Vegan Dad's Mac & Cheese

And this is our dinner table - please excuse the tubs of stuff, I usually do not allow plastic on our table but I think I was still in shock of the amount of cheese sauce we had to eat before we leave Weds.

This was the best cheese sauce. I did however adjusted it to our tastes. One, I put only a 1/2 teaspoon of salt in it....but I ended up adding the additional 1/2 teaspoon the recipe called for. I also added an additional 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast (because I love this stuff), and I added extra garlic powder, added fresh ground pepper and some dried parsley. As you can see the photo above, I heated the sauce in a pot, on the stove instead of heating it with the called for noodles.

I can't wait to pour this on noodles - I hope I have enough cheese sauce left....

Actually I'm going to try an freeze a little container of it and see how it survives...I'll let you know. UPDATE - the sauce FREEZES GREAT!

I Give this 5 out of 5 forks!