The problem with vegan cheese (and a lot of allergy free food) is that the manufacturers ignore that their ingredients start with a slightly different taste profile than the originals. Instead of working with those different tastes to create a unique foodstuff you can use as a “cheese”, they just bodge right through and declare that the finished product is tastes just like cheddar cheese when at its best it tastes like plastic and at its worst it tastes like cardboard. I had given up on dairy free cheese until I learned about cashew “cheese.” The thing that makes this dairy free vegan cheese recipe work is that it plays into the flavor of the cashews, adds a hint of nutty cheese flavor with nutritional yeast and the slight cheese tang with lemon juice. Cashew cheese doesn’t taste like a traditional dairy cheese (or plastic sawdust vegan cheese) but a unique flavor that allows you to do cheesy things with it. This cashew cheese recipe is very versatile. You can use it to make
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Thank you for the review - I was worried it would be too soybeanish but it sounds like if I prepare it the same way I have turkey in the past, the difference might not be noticed.
It will just be me and my son this year - despite he protests I may sneak it in to see if he notices the difference.
Amie @ http://www.kittycatsandairplanes.blogspot.com/
Amie - I had an early version of a tofu dog and it was pretty bad - it was all tofu and no flavoring. This stuff tastes like turkey meat, so I might give another brand of tofu hot dog a whirl someday.
You guys are half convincing me to give Tofurky another try. The Tofurky tofurky, that is. We've had other Tofurky products, but none were well received by the fam. I didn't even like them.
That was way back at the beginning of our meat reduction journey. Perhaps it was too naive to think we could go straight from steak and bacon to tofu. Probably.
Now that we're a little more seasoned at this no meat thing, our view might be different.
BTW, Blitzkrieg is hilarious! I want to squeeze his furry little cheeks.
Thanks for sharing your Tofurky adventures on Midnight Maniac Meatless Mondays.
♥ Rebecca Jean
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