Comfort Food; Greek-style

  I’d made a batch of Gyros-style seitan and wanted to use it in some traditional Greek-style dishes.  This impulse just happened to coincide with the arrival of a sample of  Teese’s newly revamped stretchy mozzarella-style faux cheese.  So there you have it, Greek-style comfort food was on the menu.  It was absolutely carb coma-inducingly [...]

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The Teese Challenge Part II

  The folks over at Chicago Soydairy sent us another sample of Teese to taste test.  This time their goal was to create a mozzarella-style “cheese” that had more authentic melting properties [creaminess and stretchiness] and a better flavor.  For the record, neither of us are huge fans of faux cheeses because, in all honesty,  most of them [...]

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Playing with My Food, Again.

I love grilled cheese sandwiches but I wanted to do something a little more interesting than that.  I was thinking along the lines of an Insalata Caprese [mozzarella Teese, basil and tomato with olive oil]  but then flashed on the strawberries in the fridge and that then led to a longing for a thick and syrupy balsamic [...]

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The Vegan Teese Challenge, Part I

I have a very heartfelt thank you to send out to Marti who gave me a head’s up regarding this challenge.  Thank you Marti! It’s actually been such a long time now since we’ve cooked with cheese that when we accepted the Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge, aside from the usual suspects like pizza and such,  it took us a [...]

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