Sunday, October 16, 2011

Yuck!

I knew that my biggest challenge when I started this whole project would be replacing cheese and boy was I right. This week I have to report that I had a good faux cheese experience and a bad one. The difference? DIY. Which brings me to the conclusion that fake cheese is just better left to the pros.

The failed attempt was vegan nacho cheese. I should have known raw cashews was just a little too weird. In the end it was a texture thing mostly. I just couldn't bring myself to eat more than a taste of the grainy concoction.  A yellow witches brew full of complicated ingredients that was so not worth the hassle. And I spent almost an hour at Whole Foods trying to track down pimientos and nutritional yeast!

The good experience also came from Whole Foods; however, from a company called Candle Cafe. Apparently it's a vegan New York eatery that started making frozen foods recently.  If I actually take the trip to NYC to visit friends I've been saying I will, then I may even check them out in person and give a full report.

But when it comes to frozen foods boy are they worth checking out! I had vegan macaroni and cheese that was honestly better than any other frozen mac and cheese I've had that uses real cheese. I would even say it matches up to the Trader Joes frozen Macaroni and Cheese experience. Carmen, my only blog watcher, you will be flabbergasted by this statement.  The only downside I can see is as usual affordability. But to keep some on hand for those days I just need a quick go to lunch that won't make me feel incredibly guilty for eating dairy in a pinch, then they are totally worth it.

Sorry that I didn't have another recipe for the blog this time, but trust me you didn't want this one. Next time, homemade tortillas!