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Dear Olivia,

Here is the vegan mac & cheese recipe you requested. But first, how about some back story, ok?

I’ve had boxed vegan mac & cheese and quite honestly, it sucked goat. Horrible stuff. But then I visited Ryan and Jaime some time ago and they made what they called “pasta meat.”

While “pasta meat” does indeed contain pasta, it contains no meat. Oddly, it doesn’t even contain fake meat. The whole thing comes from a dish they make for Taviri, their boy. They make this mac & cheese recipe and then fry up some sort of fake meat. Taviri, completely unaware of the existence of real meat, assumes fake meat is simply “meat.” And since this dish is almost always served with fake meat, the dish has been coined “pasta meat.” I believe it’s even called that when the fake meat is absent.

So here is Vegan Mac & Cheese (a theme and variation on the legendary Pasta Meat)

Ingredients:
1/2 lbs of pasta – I like shells or elbows

1/4 c Nutritional Yeast
1/2 c Plain soy milk (don’t use vanilla, ok?)
2 T Earth Balance “butter”
1/2 t salt

How to do it:

1. Cook the pasta, drain and put back into pot
2. Add the vegan butter and give it a stir or two
3. Add the nutritional yeast
4. Add the salt
5. Add the soy milk and stir just like it’s regular ol’ mac & cheese

Once it’s creamy, you’re done. Yay!!

If it’s too creamy for you, decrease the milk and nutritional yeast a bit. I like it creamy.