Booksmart Vegan

Vegan novices perusing a recipe often encounter nutritional yeast in the ingredient list and slam on the brakes. I know I did — mostly because I didn’t know what it was and, well, mystery yeast kinda sounds gross. But be not afraid. This nifty ingredient, referred to by many vegans as “nooch,” is your friend in two ways: 1) it’s chock-full of B vitamins and other nutritional yummies, and 2) it adds a nice cheesy umami to a variety of…

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A few words on tofu. It’s not meat. It doesn’t taste like meat. Nothing you do will make it taste like meat. It’s tofu. 🙂 Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s move on. To enjoy it, you must do two things: alter its texture – either by freezing it or pressing it – and marinate it. Freezing tofu makes it quite dense and a little chewy. Try it. Either you’ll like it or you won’t, and…

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