{"id":686,"date":"2011-05-19T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-08-22T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:57:11","slug":"vegan-cheesy-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Cheesy Pasta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vegan<\/p>\n

Yesterday needed serious fuel. We started planting our square foot garden; I mowed four of our five lawns and the driveway, I got extremely sunburned, did some housework, some studying, and last but not least\u2026recipe inventing. I’ve had this recipe in my head for weeks. So witha day filled with outdoor, physical labour ahead of me, it ended up being the perfect lunch to energize me all the way till dinner. This is a shock to me. I almost always snack mid-afternoon\u2026if I don\u2019t snack I feel like clawing out everyone\u2019s eyeballs because I\u2019m. that. starved. It\u2019s sad.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, for my sake (and everyone else’s!) I was satisfied and happy all afternoon. Perhaps my Vegan Cheesy Pasta was the cause of such cheerfulness. And perhaps the dark chocolate<\/a> I consumed after my pasta was also part of the deal. Probably.<\/p>\n

I loved this recipe so much\u2026not only is it completely vegan\u2026there is next to no fat, no nuts (as commonly used for vegan \u201ccheeses\u201d, and is very low in calories, yet the \u201ccheese\u201d sauce is super rich and creamy. The nutritional yeast in the sauce provides vitamin B12, something that is hard for vegans\/vegetarians to get without animal products. Then I looked up the nutritional facts for the recipe….I mean, look at all the great things it had going for it!<\/p>\n