Intro to nutritional yeast

Nutritional yeast is one of those wonder foods that far too few people know about, but it tastes heavenly with a touch of oil and salt. Its a great source of B vitamins and protein as well.

Pasta:
Ingredients:

• mini shell pasta- 1 large salad bowls worth
  
• 3 tbs nutritional yeast
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 6 roasted brussel sprouts

directions:

• coat pasta with olive oil, add the yeast and salt, and then the sprouts.
  

notes: obviously I wouldn't roast just 6 brussel sprouts for this recipe. but expect to roast about 6 brussel sprouts per serving, or make an appropriate amount of pasta.




Broccoli:

• nutritional yeast also takes great ontop of brocolli with a tad of either toasted sesame oil or olive oil
  

Vegan Spinach Mac n' Cheese

ingredients:
Cheese:

• 3 cups milk (i use 1-2%. soy milk also works wonderfully)
• 1 tbps paprika
• 1 tbsp garlic or 3 cloves minced (generous w the garlic is fine)
• 1/3 c. braggs liquid aminos (or 1/4 c. soy or tamari sauce)
• 3/4 c. nutritional yeast
• 1/2 block of firm tofu ( i sometimes put in 3/4)
• 1/2 c. vegetable oil
• 1 package frozen chopped spinach- defrosted (you could use fresh, steamed, but its much more work for the same result).
  

Casserole:

• 1 box macaroni noodles
• 2 tbsp dijon mustard

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350. Blend cheese ingredients in blender. make sure the spinach really gets pureed.
• Cook noodles according to package directions, place in casserole dish. mix in mustard.
• Pour soy cheese over the noodles until they're just covered. Mixture should be pretty liquidy. Make sure the cheese isn't too dry because it will thicken in the oven.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until cheese darkens slightly and begins to
• bubble on top.