Dear Olivia,
Here is the vegan mac & cheese recipe you requested. But first, how about some back story, ok?
I’ve had boxed vegan mac & cheese and quite honestly, it sucked goat. Horrible stuff. But then I visited Ryan and Jaime some time ago and they made what they called “pasta meat.”
While “pasta meat” does indeed contain pasta, it contains no meat. Oddly, it doesn’t even contain fake meat. The whole thing comes from a dish they make for Taviri, their boy. They make this mac & cheese recipe and then fry up some sort of fake meat. Taviri, completely unaware of the existence of real meat, assumes fake meat is simply “meat.” And since this dish is almost always served with fake meat, the dish has been coined “pasta meat.” I believe it’s even called that when the fake meat is absent.
So here is Vegan Mac & Cheese (a theme and variation on the legendary Pasta Meat)
Ingredients:
1/2 lbs of pasta – I like shells or elbows1/4 c Nutritional Yeast
1/2 c Plain soy milk (don’t use vanilla, ok?)
2 T Earth Balance “butter”
1/2 t saltHow to do it:
1. Cook the pasta, drain and put back into pot
2. Add the vegan butter and give it a stir or two
3. Add the nutritional yeast
4. Add the salt
5. Add the soy milk and stir just like it’s regular ol’ mac & cheeseOnce it’s creamy, you’re done. Yay!!
If it’s too creamy for you, decrease the milk and nutritional yeast a bit. I like it creamy.
word of warning for taviri’s folks. i know a devotee who was a kindergarten teacher. there was a veg student who’s parent fed their kids not dogs/smart dogs. one day in the cafeteria the little kid was eating a school bought hot dog.
my friend was like…”little veggie kid….what are you doing eating meat?” and the little kid was like, “what, i eat this at home.”
the veg kid didn’t know the difference between fake meat and real meat because he didn’t know meat was from dead animals!!!
knowing is half the battle as g.i. joe says…
i had a similar experience. after being in the gurukula, when i went to live with my dad, i’d eat all the normal things we ate. cookies, bread, pasta, THEN found out some of it had eggs.
still not as gross as eating a hot dog, though.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!! thanks erics!!!!!
live to serve ya…
Pasta meat! Wool hop! This is a staple of mine… with a few tofurkey brats in a skillet… yum!
@devadeva Yeah we’re a little concerned about that. He knows we don’t eat animals… but he doesn’t know anyone who does. Even our friends who do eat meat never eat it around us. And this being Seattle, we rarely go into a restaurant that even serves meat. I work with a lot of vegan kids, and they mostly get it early. I hope Viri does.