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August 3, 2010

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August 3, 2010 - katherine. Tags: Uncategorized

breakfast: shredded wheat with soymilk; coffee

lunch from NY Dosas: masala potato dosa, served with coconut chutney and sambar soup

corn tortilla chips; Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodle Cookies; a bit of chocolate Purely Decadent peanut butter swirl coconut ice cream

dinner: chocolate milk; romaine lettuce with simple mustard dressing (stone-ground mustard, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, and Bragg’s liquid aminos, all to taste), topped with homemade seitan sauteed with garlic, ginger, and Berebere spice mix; chipotle mac ‘n’ cheese

I’m not going to post the recipe for this yet because I didn’t measure anything and used some pre-made vegan cheese (Vegan rella) instead of making it entirely from scratch. The whole meal, chipotle in particular, was meant to cover up the taste of this cheese. I didn’t like it on its own, but something about it made me think it could be made to resemble Kraft mac ‘n’ cheese, which for some reason I thought was worth imitating.

So I mixed the cheese with: soymilk, nutritional yeast, stone-ground mustard, fresh lemon juice, Earth Balance, Bragg’s, bread crumbs, adobo sauce from canned chipotle peppers, and Mexican chili powder. I tossed the pasta with the sauce, topped with olive-oil-coated bread crumbs, and baked at 400F for about 20-30 minutes. It turned out surprisingly good, I think largely because of the chipotle taste. I’ll try it without the commercial cheese and with measuring next time so I can post a recipe.

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marcy's comment:
August 4, 2010 at 11:45 pm

the vegan mac n cheese they sell at whole foods was pretty close to kraft, as far as i can remember!

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