As the name suggests, various ways to make non-dairy cheeses ... including using tofu, cashew butter, oats, and such. Nutritional yeast usually gives things a cheesy taste too. My fave in it is a vegan 3-"cheese" lasagna which utilizes tofu for one of the cheeses.
Also a goodie: baked tofu with various flavorings ... usually in health food stores. Great for stir-fry.
Another nice usage of tofu: see if you can find chocolate Silk brand soy milk. :-)
I hadn't really thought of soy milk as being tofu; is tofu an intermediate step in making soy milk?
I haven't tried chocolate Silk, but I've had the vanilla (and plain but I don't remember whether it was Silk or another brand). The nutty flavour is much more pronounced in soy milk than in tofu; you can still tell it's soy milk even in the presence of decently strong other flavours.
Oops, my bad, my train of thought started as soy products and I accidentally typed that it was derived from tofu. The chocolate cover-up in Silk is pretty good. When I went vegan I had this idea to gradually go from dairy milk to soy milk so I mixed them 50/50 and tried to drink the combination. Result: now I cannot go near either dairy milk OR soy milk without gagging.
The chocolate silk does a better job of mimicking a chocolate milk than most other competing brands. Admittedly my view of what dairy milk tastes like is skewed, but I would say it tastes closer to dairy chocolate milk than other chocolate soy milks I have tried.
You might like 'the un-cheese cookbook'
including using tofu, cashew butter, oats, and such. Nutritional
yeast usually gives things a cheesy taste too. My fave in it is a
vegan 3-"cheese" lasagna which utilizes tofu for one of the cheeses.
Also a goodie: baked tofu with various flavorings ... usually in
health food stores. Great for stir-fry.
Another nice usage of tofu: see if you can find chocolate Silk brand
soy milk. :-)
Re: You might like 'the un-cheese cookbook'
I hadn't really thought of soy milk as being tofu; is tofu an intermediate step in making soy milk?
I haven't tried chocolate Silk, but I've had the vanilla (and plain but I don't remember whether it was Silk or another brand). The nutty flavour is much more pronounced in soy milk than in tofu; you can still tell it's soy milk even in the presence of decently strong other flavours.
Re: You might like 'the un-cheese cookbook'
Re: You might like 'the un-cheese cookbook'
accidentally typed that it was derived from tofu.
The chocolate cover-up in Silk is pretty good. When I went vegan I
had this idea to gradually go from dairy milk to soy milk so I mixed
them 50/50 and tried to drink the combination. Result: now I cannot
go near either dairy milk OR soy milk without gagging.
The chocolate silk does a better job of mimicking a chocolate milk
than most other competing brands. Admittedly my view of what dairy
milk tastes like is skewed, but I would say it tastes closer to dairy
chocolate milk than other chocolate soy milks I have tried.