All blog posts tagged with cashew cream
Vegan pasta alfredo with broccoli
My daughters just got back home from a ski trip with their dad. I was experimenting tonight with walnut cream in corn chowder—it worked, but not nearly as well as cashew cream—and thought they'd appreciate something a bit more . . . standard. Plus, my husband also just got back into town, and he doe…
Vegan cheese sauce (cashew cheese)
I just can't get over how much I love this sauce. Love, love, LOVE.
(OK, the word love doesn't look like a real word anymore. I hate it when that happens.)
Before I gave up dairy, I made a homemade macaroni and cheese where I made the cheese sauce from scratch—as in, starting with a roux and going f…
Vegan Mushroom Lasagna
In my family, lasagna is a comfort food for just about everyone. I have made several different types of lasagna over the years: the usual bolognese, plain cheese, spinach, white, mixed vegetables, etc. The favorite used to be bolognese or a basic meat sauce. (Technically, bolognese sauce calls for g…
Black Bean soup with banana
At the request of my 13-year-old daughter, Sophia, I made black bean soup tonight. I should say, "I made black bean soup for tonight" because I've actually been working on it since last night.
I wrote a while ago about being a canned beans kinda girl. They're just so easy, especially if you don't wa…
A note on fat
Pretty much all of my recipes call for some fat from one source or other. I use predominately coconut oil (baking and sautéing), canola oil (sautéing), olive oil (uncooked or low heat) and nuts -- especially cashew cream. As a vegan with no (known) health problems, I need to add fat to my diet. Ot…
Broccoli Bake
This is the ultimate in comfort food. If you were a kid in the 1970s or early 1980s, your mom probably made this dish for you. Picture this: rice, Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, broccoli, Velveeta and fried onions. Yum! Healthy junk food for dinner!
Seriously, I have such fond memories of this d…
Borscht
I had some beautiful beets and a nice head of cabbage, so I made borscht for dinner. My 3-year-old son kept eating the raw grated beets! Lots of recipes for borscht that I've seen call for using a dollop of sour cream per bowl when you serve the borscht. But I mixed some thick cashew cream into the …
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Everyone in the family (husband, 3-year-old son, 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old daughter) loved this soup tonight. It was fairly quick to make, though it does require a soup pot and a skillet. I used whole mushrooms, so I also spent a while slicing. You could buy pre-sliced mushrooms or use a …
More mousse
Since giving up eggs completely, I have been mentally working on a recipe for delectably rich vegan chocolate mousse. I knew it would be based on whipped cashew cream. But I've been wondering if there was something I could do to replicate the texture that beaten egg whites imparts. I'll have to spen…
Basic, creamy vegan risotto
Even when I was eating meat and dairy, I found it unnecessary to add cheese to risotto. To me, it was almost cheating to add a melting cheese, such as mozzarella, to risotto. Arborio rice naturally turns creamy when it's cooked right. And I always preferred to use flavors other than cheese to accomp…
Corn chowder
So dinner was easy and fairly quick. I had a cup and a half of thick cashew cream in the fridge needing to be used (I need to finish it tomorrow at the latest), some bell peppers, potatoes, the ubiquitous carrots and celery, and some frozen corn. Corn chowder it was. Thick and creamy with a smoky ch…
Hot Cocoa
If I become allergic to cashews -- from eating them too often! -- I will be in serious trouble.
We were decorating the Christmas tree this afternoon and thought that hot chocolate was called for. We like our hot chocolate thick and creamy, so just adding cocoa or melted vegan chocolate to non-dair…
Cream of cauliflower soup
I experimented with thick cashew cream in a new soup today, and it turned out great. I knew it would be a cream of cauliflower soup, but I had a few other itms around that I threw in for the extra nutrients: golden sweet potato and celery.
Total prep and cook time was about 1 hour 15 minutes. It mad…
Chocolate mousse
After eating a couple of bites of my I'm-just-going-to-wing-it chocolate mousse last night, my 13-year old daughter, who loves chocolate mousse, declared, "This is the best mousse that has ever come out of this house." That is a huge endorsement!
I had made a batch of thick cashew cream for a corn c…
The cashew cream secret
Thanks to Tal Ronnen, I have become a true believer in the magic of cashew cream. For use in creamy soups, sauces and desserts, it makes you wonder why you ever used dairy in the first place. As Tal explains, raw cashews are rather bland. So, when you use cashew cream in recipes, you don't taste cas…
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