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Hi TL!
I've got another recipe for you!
Let me preface this though, this recipe is not for those who are expecting the "traditional" orange goopy super unhealthy macaroni and cheese. I'll save that recipe for another time. Since it's not traditional, I opted out of using macaroni pasta since fusilli is so much fancier (not really).
This recipe was also my attempt to make a cheese sauce out of tofu. Yes, tofu.
Don't worry, it's not that scary! :'D
I didn't want to use the traditional thickening method of adding roux (flour + butter) to cream in order to make the cheese sauce.
So, I trolled tons of vegan sites to try to find a substitute medium and the answer was soft tofu. This recipe is completely dairy free mainly because I'm slightly lactose intolerant (the boyfriend is even more lactose intolerant), so having tons of cheese and cream = a bad time.
OK, enough with the text...time for the food!
INGREDIENTS
- salt
- pepper
- 2 teaspoons of paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 large portobello mushroom
- 1/2 cup of milk (soy milk)
- 2 cups of cheddar cheese (soy cheese)
- 1 package of silken tofu (if you can’t find silken tofu, use soft tofu and run it through a food processor until smooth)
- 1 bag of fusilli pasta
- 1 1/2 lbs of italian sausage
- OPTIONAL: chopped green onions
If you don't like soy, please feel free to use regular milk and regular cheddar cheese.
PROCEDURE
Prep work should take about 20 minutes. Cook time should be about 35 - 40 minutes. This will make 6 servings.
- Set water to boil. Once water begins to boil, add your pasta and let cook for about 8 minutes.
- Drain pasta when done and set aside.
- Place silken tofu in a small bowl.
- Mix until smooth with a whisk.
- Add salt, pepper, paprika and cumin into the silken tofu mixture.
- Add milk to the tofu mixture and combine thoroughly.
- Pour tofu mixture into a pot and place on medium heat.
- Once the tofu mixture begins to bubble, add your cheese in small batches. Stir mixture after each round of cheese in order to thoroughly combine and melt cheese. Reduce heat to low and stir occasionally.
- Place a skillet on high heat.
- Cook sausages for about 5 – 6 minutes on each side.
- When sausages are fully cooked, remove from heat and let cool. Do not clean this pan — the remaining oil will be used to sautee the mushrooms.
- Slice sausages into 1/2 inch diagonal cuts and set aside.
- Chop portobello mushroom into small pieces.
- Set skillet on high heat.
- Sautee mushrooms in the sausage fat. Remove from heat once the mushrooms begin to take on a caramel color.
- Combine portobello mushrooms with cheese sauce.
- Pour cheese sauce over pasta and stir to combine.
- Place sausages over the pasta and serve. (OPTIONAL: garnish with green onions)
- Eat!
![[image loading]](http://kierpanda.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/blog_macandcheese_done.jpg)
And here's what you get!
It's not the prettiest, but it was very tasty. :D You can't taste the soy at all.
For more pictures, check out my website here. Or, like the facebook page here.
I've got some more recipes that I'm working on, including Tiramisu and Beef Stroganoff.
Anyways, thanks for reading TL! Happy eating. <3
 
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Great blog once again! Looks delicious :D
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Omg, amazing. Wish I could eat that right now! 5/5
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The idea is very good, so I'm going to copy it yet alter a few ingredients. I should also mention that I'm only posting as a reminder in my subscribed threads so that I can make this tomorrow. 
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Inventive, I like it. Not being American I haven't really tried mac & cheese, can't say it sounds like my thing, but this looks good! Also looking forward to the Tiramisu blog
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#1: where is the funny starcraft-related title? 
#2: what is fusilli? :O
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On December 09 2012 20:50 snively wrote:#1: where is the funny starcraft-related title? #2: what is fusilli? :O
Fusilli are a type of pasta. Just like maccheroni.
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On December 09 2012 18:51 kierpanda wrote:
It's not the prettiest, but it was very tasty. :D You can't taste the soy at all.
I find it pretty :o
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Nommmmm
Reading the recipe made me hungry D:
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Did this with some left over dried morels. Holy mother of god I did not think soy cheese could actually taste good.
My sister bought some during her "vegan phase" which lasted all of 4 days of my Dad purposefully grilling himself porterhouses for dinner xD
A wonderful brunch food
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What do you mean, "Not the prettiest?" That looks fantastic, want to come over?
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I must make a food porn blog, these inspire me!
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5/5 I have to try anything with this much cheese in it Thanks for another recipe.
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![[image loading]](http://suprmchaos.com/fusilli-jerry1b_081208.jpg)
Fusilli Jerry approves. Seriously though, it looks damn good
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God that looks so good ;;
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I like how you make your recipes less nerdy when you post them on TL.
*edit* Also, that looks fucking delicious. In case it wasn't obvious.
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mouth-watering , holy cow. i think i'm going to try this
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Yea gona take this recipe and use real cheese =D
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On December 09 2012 20:50 snively wrote:#1: where is the funny starcraft-related title?
The title for this wasn't Starcraft related, so I didn't post the header image. :X A coworker named it "Master Chief Mac and Cheese" since we've been playing so much Halo 4 lately.
On December 10 2012 03:38 ThomasjServo wrote:
What do you mean, "Not the prettiest?" That looks fantastic, want to come over?
give me a kitchen and ingredients, and I will cook!
On December 10 2012 04:04 farvacola wrote:Fusilli Jerry approves. Seriously though, it looks damn good
hahah wtf
and thanks :D
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I just ate noodles with tuna.
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Katowice25012 Posts
This made Wax mad so 5/5 from me.
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United States33302 Posts
tofu in mac and cheese is an abomination to god
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Rofl, so if it's not food porn it should be just straight regular porn.
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On December 10 2012 16:39 Waxangel wrote:
tofu in mac and cheese is an abomination to god
Needs more various sources of flesh and protein.
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On December 10 2012 17:09 Newbistic wrote:
Rofl, so if it's not food porn it should be just straight regular porn.
T__T I'm blaming wax for the title change.
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Portion too big for the plate huh. But I guess you can have never enough of that!
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i just came
and by came i mean, threw up cuz CHEESE NO GOOD :D
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On December 11 2012 05:14 Xeris wrote:
i just came
and by came i mean, threw up cuz CHEESE NO GOOD :D
Cheese (and any food containing copious amounts of it) is marvelous.
Are you lactose intolerant?
This looks so good. I'm going to revise a few recipe items but definitely going to give this a try.
Thanks. 5/5
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I really really really dislike tofu, but I'll try this!
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that looks delicious
On December 11 2012 13:03 GenoPsydE wrote:Show nested quote +On December 11 2012 05:14 Xeris wrote:
i just came
and by came i mean, threw up cuz CHEESE NO GOOD :D Cheese (and any food containing copious amounts of it) is marvelous. Are you lactose intolerant? This looks so good. I'm going to revise a few recipe items but definitely going to give this a try. Thanks. 5/5
According to wiki, many people in asia are lactose intolerant
would explain the difference in playstyles between koreans and foreigners
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I think your hyphen is in the wrong place in the title. Not Food-Porn would mean it could still be about food, it's just not pretty enough to be considered food-porn. As it is, not-Food Porn implies that it is porn, just not the food kind. Not, I think, what you were going for.
Might get more people to click, though.
*edit* Ninja'd by like a day. Didn't see the second page >.<
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On December 12 2012 06:27 ASoo wrote:
I think your hyphen is in the wrong place in the title. Not Food-Porn would mean it could still be about food, it's just not pretty enough to be considered food-porn. As it is, not-Food Porn implies that it is porn, just not the food kind. Not, I think, what you were going for.
Might get more people to click, though.
*edit* Ninja'd by like a day. Didn't see the second page >.<
T__T
like I said, my title got changed.
It's usually just "Food Porn!"; but someone changed it. @@
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verry interesting and delicious looking. I will have to try it.
Correct me if i am wrong but the silken tofu is acting like the Roue in a normal cheese sauce to keep it from separating.
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On December 13 2012 11:22 zhenherald wrote:
verry interesting and delicious looking. I will have to try it.
Correct me if i am wrong but the silken tofu is acting like the Roue in a normal cheese sauce to keep it from separating.
You're correct!
The tofu sauce does have the consistency of the regular cheese sauce too.
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So, I made this tonight. It was pretty damn good. Being a college student, I made it in bulk.
I substituted out the green onions for green pepper pieces that I also sauteed with the mushrooms. I also used Kraft with extra types of cheeses rather than making a roux and using my own noodles. In the end though, it's pretty delicious and definitely something I would've never thought of. Next time I'll just add onions to complete the sausage fest.
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On December 14 2012 13:01 Game wrote:
So, I made this tonight. It was pretty damn good. Being a college student, I made it in bulk.
I substituted out the green onions for green pepper pieces that I also sauteed with the mushrooms. I also used Kraft with extra types of cheeses rather than making a roux and using my own noodles. In the end though, it's pretty delicious and definitely something I would've never thought of. Next time I'll just add onions to complete the sausage fest.
Glad it turned out well for you! :D
I typically make all of the recipes in bulk too. A lot of the pasta dishes last me about 5 days, so it's really cost effective. All you need to do is reheat a small batch and you're good to go.
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Indeed
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