mac and cheez!!!

[museone]

I got a new cookbook called The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook by Jo Stepaniak, which actually has a lot of promising recipe ideas. The very first thing I made from the book was the Traditional Macaroni and Cheez recipe, although I of course modified it since I wouldn't dare follow a recipe. While I cooked the macaroni, I heated soy milk in one pan and made a roux in another pan. The roux was made with both olive oil and margarine, unbleached white flour, ground mustard, cayenne, salt and pepper. Once the roux cooked for a while, I added the heated soy milk, which made a white sauce. Boy did that get thick immediately! I took the white sauce off the heat and added a lot of nutritional yeast, which I have mentioned before has a cheesy taste to it. I combined the cheez sauce with the cooked and drained macaroni. I added it to a casserole dish and added fresh bread crumbs to the top, which I toasted earlier with some olive oil. I baked the mac and cheez for about a 1/2 hour in the oven. While it didn't string like mac and cheese does, it was actually really, really good. It had a nice crusty bottom, which kinda tasted like the browned cheese on non-vegan mac and cheese. This was a winner!!!

Mac and Cheez in the casserole dish right out of the oven.


Plated with steamed broccoli!