Teese Please

As a vegan who loves the taste of cheese, I have yet to find a vegan cheese that I am just crazy over. The taste has just not been there but I have learned how to adjust and make my own versions of cheese out of various ingredients like nutritional yeast, tofu, nut, and a few others.

I was surfing vegan blogs one day and ran across The Urban Housewife’s blog. She was talking about a vegan cheese called Teese (only in mozzarella now) that actually melted (another issue I have with many vegan options for cheese). Reading her post led me to the Teese site and I was pleasantly surprised that it was made by the Chicago Soy Dairy. You see one of my favorite vegan ice creams, Temptations, is made by this company. After seeing that, I just had to get my hands on some. So I emailed the contact and asked for a coupon to try some and told him about Vegan Family Living. He emailed back asking for my address so that he could send me a sample.

I received the Teese about two days later and cooked with the next day. My first dish made with the Teese was  quick cream style corn. I took some nutritional yeast, Teese, a touch of soy milk, and Earth Balance butter and mixed it in with the corn. I stired it for about 3 to 5 minutes and then let it simmer on low for about 5 more minutes. Was it good? Yes it was and all the cheese really did melt and it was pretty good in the dish too.

From there I made potato dishes, and other creamy stuff just to test and see if it really did the job. It is great cut up on salads too.

It comes in a round block and is a little whiter than the dairy mozzarella cheese. It is easy to cut and chop into small pieces and really, like I said it does melt.

My husband and I both agree that by itself it is not the best but like many other vegan cheeses it will do. However for cooking it is really great, although it does melt more than the normal cheese. I also did a freezer test and the took it out the next day to see what it was like. It thawed perfectly and have even more of a sticky consistency like mozzarella does.

I see that the Chicago Soy Dairy is coming out with a cheddar version of Teese. I for one can’t wait.

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