Cooking has become a way for me to relax after coming home from my internship. I get really excited picking out recipes and making my shopping list on the weekend and I think about cooking while riding the trolley back to my apartment each evening. Today I was exhausted simply because it was a Monday and wanted comfort food. What better than mac and cheese.
I'm allergic to dairy and cheese used to beat me up terribly when I was a kid, but I still find myself craving mac and cheese quite often. I used to settle for the boxed Road's End Mac and Chreese but it never fully satisfied. Because I journeyed all the way to the nearest Whole Foods (an extra mile in wrathful shoes) last week due to Trader Joe's sucking lots, I now have a good sized bag of nutritional yeast flakes. This magical substance is a godsend for creating cheese-like perfection.
I cooked up some whole grain rotini and cauliflower and used the Cheezy Sauce recipe from Veganomicon. This sauce is super easy and quick to make. It came out much better than I expected and is fairly similar to cheese, at least as much as I can remember from 6ish years ago. The sauce is slightly tangy but is very rich and a good texture. Most impressive of all is that there is not one bit of faux-dairy in the sauce. No soymilk, no Earth Balance, nothing. Just some creative culinary chemistry.
I will definitely be returning to this recipe again.
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