I Made Vegan Cheese
Filed Under (Miscellaneous) by maida on 19-09-2008
Looks good, doesn’t it?!
And it was good, if you like gelatinous, rubbery, nutritional-yeast tasting goo. I picked up The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook
In addition to the meunster cheese, I made the recipe for Mozarella hoping that I could use it on pizza later in the week. That one was made with oats, nutritional yeast, cornstarch and spices. Really, who thinks this stuff up??! That one didn’t even firm up and (yes, I tasted it) was equally repulsive.
In spite of these set backs, I am not throwing in the towel with this book. There are a few cheesy sauce recipes that I’ll try out before decided whether or not I want to add this book to my home collection.
I am a big fan of the cheezy sauces in this book, but have not gotten adventurous enough to try any of the solid cheeses. I remember this post http://vivaciousvegan.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-summer.html from another blogger who had success with the solid cheese. Maybe the recipe she tried is better tested and yields better results. Sorry it didn’t work out for you, but good try!
I’ve made a couple of the sauces from that book and have liked them. I made the block cheddar-like one that didn’t set up well (more of a spread), but it tasted good. It was good smeared on toast for grilled cheese sammiches.
I’ve been wanting to try the chickpea one and the mozzy one, maybe I’ll think twice about the mozzy one, though. Thanks for the post.
Thanks for passing that along, Jennifer. Based on that post and Matt’s comment, I will definitely give it another try. I have faith that there will be one recipe in this book that I will like.
The feta was good. I made it and used in a spinach calzone one day and moussaka the next. It took a week to marinaded, but I got to have moussaka again =d