Vegan Macaroni and Cheese… It Can be Done!

Sharon Troy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:39:37 +0000

Note: This post is the second in a series on eco-friendly comfort foods. What are your favorite comfort foods? Let me know in the comments!

Mac and Cheese, one of my all-time favorite comfort foods, was something I learned to live without when I went vegan. That was until this recipe came into my life, in an issue of VegNews magazine.

I’m not entirely sure what to call it… Mac and Cheez? Mac and “Cheese?” Serve it with Broccoli and call it Mac and Trees? Call it whatever you want; I just call it delicious. Even if you’re not vegan, this sure is more comforting than the bizarre orange powdery stuff that came out of a box when we were kids.

But while my vegan husband and I gobbled it up, I wondered if it would stand up to the omnivore test. So we had some friends over this weekend to test it out. We also made things a little interesting by comparing it to a very different recipe from Veganomicon. Keep reading for the results of our taste-off…

Veganomicon Belongs On Your Shelf

Kelli Best-Oliver — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:56:20 +0000

While I’m not a vegan, I’ve been a flexitarian for almost ten years. I do most of the cooking in our house, and we try to stay meat free as much as possible. Eating lower on the food chain is just better for our planet and our bodies, and I have a problem with the way industrial animal-based foods are produced. However, it’s easy to fall into a rut with what I cook in the house, particularly over the winter when local produce is virtually non-existent.

I’ve always been interested in vegan cooking, but I love cheese too much to give it any serious consideration. That is, until I found the Post Punk Kitchen online and subsequently received Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero’s Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. Moskowitz and Romero are no strangers to cookbooks. Their Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World was a best-seller, and Moskowitz wrote the cult-fave Vegan With a Vengeance. Forget the brown rice/tofu vegan health food of the 70s: Moskowitz and Romero take vegan food, modernize it with a hipster edge, and make it appealing to any cook, not just vegan cooks, straight from their Brooklyn kitchens.

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Vegan Macaroni and Cheese… It Can be Done!

Veganomicon Belongs On Your Shelf