15 June 2018 • Cilantro Roots Thai sticky rice can be easily made at home. All you need is a steamer insert with matching lid and some cheese cloth. I still have a lovely sticky rice storage basket from Thailand, actually from the village where I have a house. So many good memories! Preparation:... Continue Reading →
23 July 2018 • Cilantro Roots Lemon 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋 pie! I am working on the recipe for a vegan lemon pie to be further developed into a vegan lemon mousse pie. Today's version of the lemon pie is made with a Graham cracker crust, filled with a cashew-based lemon custard, and topped with a thin layer... Continue Reading →
I love cooking. But sometimes I just want to prepare dishes that are done in 5 minutes. This Parmesan cheese delivers on that promise. Less than 5 minutes and pretty delicious! Ingredients: 1 cup raw cashews 4 TBS nutritional yeast 1 tsp kosher salt 1/2 tsp garlic powder. Preparation: Place all ingredients in a food... Continue Reading →
Earlier this morning, I made a double batch of cashew-based vegan parmesan. As I harvested some Italian basil yesterday, I decided to also make a quick batch of pesto. As usual, I make do with whatever I have available in my pantry. For example, I only had a tiny amount of pine nuts in my... Continue Reading →
Let's go Dutch with Cumin cheese - no soy, no nuts, no kappa carrageenan, no tapioca starch, no lactic acid, no expensive ingredients :). This week I learned to make a steamed vegan cheese with rice flour using the recipe from Martine's website https://lowcarb-vegan.net/vegan-steamed-rice-cheese/. All credit for the recipe goes to her! The cheese is easy to... Continue Reading →
Since about 4 years, I have been living in north-west-central Indiana. Sadly, Indiana is sometimes known in the US as a "fly-over" state, basically meaning that it is not worthwhile to visit Indiana. We may not have spectacular mountains or a beautiful coastline in Indiana, but one thing we do have - in addition to... Continue Reading →
I know that several of you have been waiting for these vegan cheese recipes, so here we go! The base recipe for these cheeses is not mine. It was brilliantly invented by Martine van Haperen and has been posted on her webpage https://lowcarb-vegan.net/vegan-steamed-rice-cheese/. I do hope you will all visit her website as it has... Continue Reading →
Easy vegan 5-ingredient pepperjack cheese, soy free, nutfree, gluten free. Those who have been following this page, know that I have been experimenting with steamed vegan cheeses that have a base of rice-flour. My inspiration came from Martine van Haperen's recipe posted at https://lowcarb-vegan.net/vegan-steamed-rice-cheese/. Today, I made some more twists to the base recipe in... Continue Reading →
The kitchen gods are not with me today. I started my Sunday-morning cooking with making mozzarella, which ended up as oily blob in my saucepan. I've made it many times using the same recipe but today it just didn't come together. Additionally, my oven seemed to have gone bonkers. I was preheating the oven in... Continue Reading →
Cilantro Roots - adventures in growing & creating vegan food 