Grillin' Cheese Sauce

November 2, 2014

Last weekend nosotros had some friends over for a vegan pizza party. I made a quadruple batch of my favourite pizza dough, nosotros grabbed a few fresh veges too cured olives from the market, too nosotros invited our friends to choose their favourite pizza toppings too. Michael collated a arrive at of grated too gratable vegan cheeses too I had a larn at making my own.

This pizza cheese recipe from Live Blissful resembles whatsoever reveal of cheesy vegan sauce recipes out there, based on mock-milk too solid soil cashews amongst nooch, lemon juice too garlic for flavour. But the agency it bubbled too coloured too crusted inwards the oven took me past times surprise - it definitely brings the golden-gooey await to an otherwise cheeseless pizza.

Tastewise, it was pretty mild. I used a lilliputian onion pulverisation instead of garlic due to our guests' dietary requirements too volition revert to a generous milk shiver of garlic pulverisation inwards other circumstances. (It belike wouldn't wound to increase the nooch too lemon juice quantities either.) This formulation plant good inwards tandem amongst grated commercial vegan cheese similar Cheezly or Daiya; they've got flavor too a fleck of stretch but tin dry out into miserly strings inwards the oven too this sauce lends trunk too creaminess.

This cheese sauce nevertheless has something to offering on its own, too nosotros grilled upwardly a proficient percentage of it on apparently toast too.

Grillin' cheese sauce 
(from Live Blissful)

1/4 loving cup raw cashews
1/2 loving cup almond milk
1/2 loving cup water
two tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
two tablespoons arrowroot
1 teaspoon garlic or onion powder
1 tablespoon olive oil

Cover the cashews inwards H2O too soak them for at to the lowest degree an hour. Drain the cashews too blend them amongst the balance of the ingredients until the sauce is every bit smoothen every bit possible. Transfer the sauce to a saucepan too oestrus it, stirring constantly. Take it off the oestrus in 1 lawsuit it's thickened, unopen to v minutes.

Use the sauce on pizza, toast or within grilled cheese sandwiches.

Ginger Cheesecake Slice

November 1-2, 2014

This recipe has been on my dessert wish-list since I received a review re-create of Veganissimo a twelvemonth ago. The cookbook's helpful icons reminded me that it's both gluten-free together with soy-free, together with was therefore an ideal dessert for our pizza party.

I've petty to study when it comes to the making of this cheesecake - everything came together every bit instructed without whatever angst or uncertainty. The base of operations is a slightly sandy mix of flours spiked amongst soil ginger, but its principal utilisation is to back upwardly a major dose of crystallised ginger. Over the meridian goes a cashew-based cheesecake mixture, together with inwards a refreshing divergence from the now-ubiquitous raw cakes this 1 gets baked.

The final result is theatre together with dense rather than fluffy, creamy amongst a sugariness heat. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minor while brings large satisfaction (...particularly when one's belly is already total of pizza).

Ginger cheesecake slice
(from Leigh Drew's Veganissimo!)

base
3/4 loving cup buckwheat flour
1/3 loving cup kokosnoot flour
1/3 loving cup almond meal
1/4 loving cup kokosnoot sugar
1 tablespoon soil ginger
1/2-1/3 loving cup olive oil

200g crystallised ginger, roughly chopped

cashew cheesecake
two cups raw cashews
1 loving cup almond milk
2.5cm while fresh ginger, peeled together with coarsely sliced
1/4 loving cup agave nectar
1/4 loving cup maple syrup
two tablespoons lemon juice
two tablespoons cornflour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cover the cashews for the cheesecake inwards H2O together with soak them overnight.

Preaheat an oven to 160°C. Line a 20cm foursquare cake tin strength out amongst baking paper.

In a large bowl, stir together all the dry out ingredients (buckwheat flour through to soil ginger). Pour over 1/2 loving cup of the stone oil together with mix it through amongst a spoon or build clean hands. If needed, add together to a greater extent than stone oil a tablespoon at a fourth dimension until the mixture resembles moisture sand. When the texture is right, pour the base of operations mixture into the baking tray together with spread it out evenly, smoothing it downwards amongst the dorsum of a spoon. Bake the base of operations until it is golden at the edges together with get-go to dry out out, 10-15 minutes.

While the base of operations is baking, house the almond milk inwards a minor saucepan amongst the fresh ginger pieces. Simmer the milk over depression estrus for 10 minutes, together with then plough off the estrus together with allow the ginger to infuse into the milk every bit it cools for a farther 10 minutes.

When the milk is cool enough, take away the ginger pieces together with pour it into a nutrient processor or blender. Drain the cashews together with add together them too. Add the remaining cheesecake ingredients together with blend them thoroughly until every bit smoothen every bit possible.

Sprinkle the crystallised ginger pieces over the base. Pour over the cheesecake mixture together with smoothen over the top. Bake the cheesecake until it is golden on meridian together with theatre but about the edges, 40-50 minutes. Allow the while to cool completely earlier slicing together with serving.