Quick, easy, and crazy delicious. As with her nachos, Simpson's mac and cheese required no cheese analogs, no nutritional yeast, and no plant milks. I'm not opposed to those things, but it's impressive that she creates such smooth flavor using veggies and spices only.
This book is pretty awesome, and though the chapters by holiday are fun, this is more of an every day book than I remember to give it credit for.
This picture isn't as good because of the light, but when I realized that my Pika Chu stapler was in the frame, I had to post it.
A few days later, I decided to tackle the Raw Sweet Potato Pie to make a complete meal out of the meager leftovers. That didn't go as well.
When someone says "raw" and "in your high-speed blender" in the same recipe, they do not mean in your food processor. They probably don't even mean in your Magic Bullet. They probably do mean in your $400 kitchen Sarlacc pit/Vitamix. I don't have one of those.
The pie blended up eventually, but it was frustrating and I lost a spatula in the process. All that and the flavor wasn't great. The spices were perfect, and the crust was fantastic, but raw sweet potatoes may not be right for me. No pictures for that one though. It's ugly.
It's still haunting my refrigerator, but I'm starting to have some ideas for how to re-purpose it with other leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner.
Wow, I'm intrigued by plant-based macaroni and cheese without nooch or milk! It looks great, especially with the other components of the meal.
ReplyDeleteBummer about the sweet potato pie. Those heavy duty blenders are so great but way too expensive for people to regularly include recipes that need them. So frustrating! I've had raw sweet potato before, but I grated it - and it was a lot of work. Oof.