Hurry Up Alfredo

I love the challenge of making dinner from whatever I find in the kitchen, and one thing that always helps is staying stocked up on some key ingredients that I know I'll need sometime in the future. And that future was the other night.

I looked in the fridge and found some whole wheat linguine, broccoli, and beet greens on the middle shelf. There were onions and garlic in the veggie bin, and so all I needed was a sauce for those noodles. I immediately thought of Lauren Ulm's Vegan Yum Yum:


A half hour later Gary and Kalyani got back from teaching at Country Club of Florida, and the fragrant smells from the kitchen jolted their senses into high alert. They called out in unison as soon as they walked through the door, "Wow, that smells great! What's cooking?"


Hurry Up Alfredo

1 cup soy or almond milk
1/3 cup rounded raw unsalted cashews
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
3 tbl tamari, low-sodium
2 tbl earth balance margarine
1 tbl tahini
1 tbl fresh lemon juice
2 tsp dijon mustard
1/2 tsp paprika
1 pinch nutmeg
1 pinch salt
black pepper to taste
2-4 garlic cloves (optional)

First grind the nuts in the blender and then add the other ingredients. Pour over the veggies and noodles and warm together before serving.

It tasted fabulous and has been put on our short list of recipe repeats.

Enjoy!

Gary and Kalyani, about to enjoy some Hurry Up Alfredo