Vegan Queso

If you're not from Texas and know some Spanish, you may wonder what people are talking about when they ask for a bowl of queso.  You want a bowl of cheese?  In a way, yes.
Queso is a Tex-mex cheese dip which I have de-dairyed and kept delicious.


What you need:
3/4 cup almond milk (unsweet is best for this)
1 generous cup of nutritional yeast
1/2 cup flour
2 tbsp of margarine
squirt of yellow mustard
squirt of soy sauce
Can of tomatoes and chilies (e.g. Rotel)

What you do:
Melt the margarine.
Whisk flour and milk in a bowl, add to pot with nut. yeast and stir well.
Reduce heat.  Throw in everything else.  Heat for just about 5 minutes while stirring.
More milk will make for a thinner version.  More of the nut. yeast will make it cheesier and thicker.  More of the margarine will make it fattier and creamier.

Grab some chips and dig in.

Baked Mexico

1/2 onion, chopped
2 zucchinis, chopped
12 oz. (one pack) soy crumbles
small can of tomato paste (6 oz. I think)
two handfuls of chopped scallions
dashes of salt, pepper, Valentina hot sauce, oregano, cumin
one recipe of "cheese" sauce (one recipe here but many variations are floating around the web)
Around six tortillas

Saute onions, zucchini. Stir in soy crumbles and tomato sauce. Throw in spices. Layer tortillas in baking pan. Spread all the good stuff on the tortillas. Top with cheese sauce and scallions.
Bake for thirty minutes at 350.

Vegan Horseshoe

The horseshoe is a Springfield, Mass specialty. It's an open face sandwich with Texas toast, some kind of meat (often hamburger), fries and cheese. I saw this wonderful concoction on tv and decided to try to make a vegan version. For the Texas toast, just baked some thin slices of french bread with margarine on 'em. For the meat, fried a veggie burger. Cooked up some frozen fries for this but a more motivated person might make their own. For the cheese, I made a cheesy sauce which is basically this one here.
Very delicious and pretty quick. Better serve this with a salad though, this sucka has no vegetables!