Guest guest Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hi Pat, Can you tell me what kind of vegan cheese you would use for lasagna recepes etc? I'm not a vegan right now, but it's something that I will probably pursue in the future. I was a vegan for a short while some years back and I used to mash tofu to use in place of ricotta but I can't recall if I found some kind of vegan mozzarella, or just didn't use it at all. Thanks! Cath **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 > Can you tell me what kind of vegan cheese you > would use for lasagna recepes > etc? Well, there are several brands of soycheez that are also vegan (some of them, be warned, contain casein so are not vegan). Toffutti is the best of the brands that are available here where I am in Canada. Other members can recommend better brands available in the USA I'd use a cheddar type of cheez myself, if I had to choose, because I found in the past that soy mozzarella-type cheez was too bland for ME personally. It has, however, been some time since I have used soycheez of any kind. I either use some of my own crumb topping (ground-up nuts, nutritional yeast, wholewheat toasted crumbs plus various spices and herbs), or use just nutritional yeast, or I mix a tofu-herb-lemon blend to sub for mozzarella or a bechamel sauce. (And that's because I avoid the fat found in so many fake cheezes - others might not want to worry about it.) > I was a vegan for a short while > some years back and I used to > mash tofu to use in place of ricotta but I > can't recall if I found some kind of > vegan mozzarella, or just didn't use it at all. Stepaniuk's cookbooks have several recipes for making your own cheezy substitutes. I don't have a copy of any of them, but I understand _The Un-Cheese Book_ is excellent for that. We should also have some recipes in the Files under 'Faux Foods' - about halfway down the big collection of recipe folders. Have a look. Also check the Italian Main and Side Dishes folder - there will be several pasta dishes there that are vegan and will have ideas for using various cheezes or a substitute for cheez. You know, after a while as a vegan, I lost interest in cheese altogether. I put something 'cheezy' into such recipes now from habit. Today, I made a dish that I usually add nutritonal yeast to for the cheezy flavour but forgot it - and didn't miss it. It was only when we had finished it and I was cleaning up that I realized it hadn't been used LOL Good luck - enjoy. Love, Pat ---- Dr Patricia M. Sant http://beanvegan.blogspot.com Vegan World Cuisine: http://www.care2.com/c2cvegworld Vegetarian Spice: Vegetarian Slimming: vegetarianslimming Vegetarians In Canada: vegetariansincanada 'To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ______________________________\ ____ Never miss a thing. Make your home page. http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hi Pat, Thanks for mentioning Joanne Stepaniak's " Un Cheese " cookbook. I think I may still have a copy of that! I'll have to look in my library tomorrow. I don't think I've ever seen Tofutti cheese here, but I've seen the Tofutti " ice cream " . I've never tried it but my old friend Rona was hooked on Tofutti Cuties. That would be great if I eventually lost a taste for cheese. I look forward to that! It could take awhile though. It's a process. Cath (-: **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Funny about cheese, isn't it? It's an unlikely food, really - and a brave person who first looked at the bag of milk which had soured in the heat and been 'churned' by the gait of the camel or whatever and decided that he'd eat it anyway. But we're not that short of food in our modern lives that we have to turn to such desperate measures. Ok ok ok. I tell myself that every now and then when I walk past the cheese counter in the market. It's not that I think I WANT cheese anymore, it's just that I did so like the convenience of using it. An apple is convenient, an apple is convenient, an apple is convenient. . .. . . . Love and hugs, Pat --- catherineleslie1 wrote: > Hi Pat, > > Thanks for mentioning Joanne Stepaniak's " Un > Cheese " cookbook. I think I > may still have a copy of that! I'll have to > look in my library tomorrow. > > I don't think I've ever seen Tofutti cheese > here, but I've seen the Tofutti > " ice cream " . I've never tried it but my old > friend Rona was hooked on Tofutti > Cuties. > > That would be great if I eventually lost a > taste for cheese. I look forward > to that! It could take awhile though. It's a > process. > > Cath (-: > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy > ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > ______________________________\ ____ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Search. http://tools.search./newsearch/category.php?category=shopping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 On 1/10/08, Patricia Sant <drpatsant wrote: > > An apple is convenient, > an apple is convenient, an apple is convenient. . Even more so if you get one of those thingies that slices and cores apples in one swoop. Like this: http://tinyurl.com/2bnx4r I found one at my grocery for a little over $2 and my apple consumption has increased dramatically as a result. I've never much liked the sensation of biting into a whole apple and when I was feeling lazy, it would seem like it took too long to cut the apple up so it just sat there. Now I can have apple slices in (literally) seconds. Yum. I've seen a fancier (and more expensive) one that makes the apple into 12 slices which would be good for anyone with a home dehydrator because it's perfect thickness for drying. Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Clever little gadget, isn't it? I should get one And the one that slices into 12 would indeed be useful for those who dehydrate fruit. Y'know, I was looking at dehydrators on the net a few months ago and wondering, yes - no? yes -no? etc. As in, would I use it enough or get tired of it after a week. (Yes? No? LOL) It'd be helpful for raw recipes, I know, and my dh is interested in trying to go raw - I'm sorta ambivalent about it, but not resistant. Anyone here raw or mostly raw in their eating pattern? Love and hugs, Pat --- Sparrow R Jones <sparrowrose wrote: > On 1/10/08, Patricia Sant <drpatsant > wrote: > > > > An apple is convenient, > > an apple is convenient, an apple is > convenient. . > > Even more so if you get one of those thingies > that slices and cores > apples in one swoop. Like this: > http://tinyurl.com/2bnx4r > > I found one at my grocery for a little over $2 > and my apple > consumption has increased dramatically as a > result. I've never much > liked the sensation of biting into a whole > apple and when I was > feeling lazy, it would seem like it took too > long to cut the apple up > so it just sat there. Now I can have apple > slices in (literally) > seconds. Yum. > > I've seen a fancier (and more expensive) one > that makes the apple into > 12 slices which would be good for anyone with a > home dehydrator > because it's perfect thickness for drying. > > Sparrow > ______________________________\ ____ Never miss a thing. Make your home page. http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 On 1/10/08, Pat <drpatsant wrote: > > Y'know, I was looking at dehydrators on the net a > few months ago and wondering, yes - no? yes -no? > etc. As in, would I use it enough or get tired of > it after a week. (Yes? No? LOL) In addition to thinking about raw breads, pizzas, cookies and the like, something to think about with dehydrators is: do you have access to a farmer's market or farm program through which you can get ridiculous amounts of produce in season for ridiculously low prices? If good produce is about the same price year 'round, that's one thing, but if the prices for the good stuff go dramatically up and down, a dehydrator can be a good choice. One nice thing about being here in the heart of Mormon Country (the town I live in is about 90% LDS) is that there is a lot of information and resources for cooking with dehydrated (and canned) foods. Mormons try to keep a two-year supply of food and other essentials for their family in home storage at all times, in case of disaster. To keep the food stores from going bad, they cook from the stores to rotate them. So a lot of folks out here have great recipes that use dried stores (mostly non-vegetarian recipes, but the ideas and techniques are more important than the specific ingredients.) Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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