Parts / Components

Cream Cheese

Nora: Well, it is a thick creamy spread that you can use in place of cream cheese.

Josh: It’s cream cheese, except non-dairy and homemade rather than expensive and processed. Do with it as you will, flavor it up, go wild, the world is your bagel and you get to make the cream cheese. Cashews are amazing, they can do anything.

Cream Cheese
Adapted From: Connoisseurus Veg
Time: 10 mins (if skipping cashew soak and blending extra with blender/food processor), or 4 hours (if soaking the cashews), or 25 minutes (if boiling the cashews instead of soaking)
Makes: Roughly 4.5oz
Omnivore Index: It is thick, creamy, and great for shmearing on stuff. You tell me.
Ingredients

1 cup (4.5 oz) cashews, soaked or boiled
2 tbsp nootch (nutritional yeast)
1/4 cup (4 tbsp) lemon juice
1/2 tbsp oil
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
Recipe

-If soaking or boiling cashews, soak cashews 4 hours or boil for 15 minutes. Then drain cashews.
-Blend until smooth (approximately 1 minute, unless skipping soak/boil in which case blend for longer).
-Add everything else, stir or blend together.
-Chill before serving.

Closing Arguments
Nora: It’ll do.
Josh: It’s cream cheese. So… What else do I need to say?

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Quick Rise Pizza Dough

Everyone could use a good pizza dough recipe. It is part of many other recipes as it is the base of many of them. This is that recipe.

This pizza dough recipe is inspired by a frustration that every pizza crust we tried to buy had honey in it or worse. And once we started making this, it was no going back. This recipe is incredibly simple and easy, quick, and has reliably proven to be an excellent texture time and again.

Plus, the ingredients on hand are really basic pantry items, making this extremely cheap to make. This is a way better value and taste than any pizza crust we may have bought. We’ve also used this recipe to make stromboli and it turned out AMAZING.

Quick Rise Pizza Dough
Makes: 1 large pizza or stromboli
Omnivore Index: Nobody knows that good pizza dough is vegan already, and they won’t know this is either
Ingredients

-2 cups flour
-1 tbsp yeast
-1 tbsp sugar
-1/4 tsp salt
-2/3 cups warm water

Optional ingredient suggestions: garlic powder, onion powder, steak seasoning, Trader Joe 21 Seasoning Salute
Instructions

-Add flour, sugar, salt, and yeast to a bowl large enough for mixing (or use a mixer if you have it)
-Add any other spices if applicable
-Slowly add warm water and stir to combine
-When ingredients start to form, use your hands to knead and form dough ball
-Cover bowl with towel or plastic wrap and let sit for a minimum of 20 minutes
-Roll out into pizza dough and cover with desired toppings
-Bake on pizza pan at 525°F for 12 minutes
-Let cool 5 minutes before cutting and serving