Say CHEESE!

Hola my pretty faces :)

I'm back after my Easter break (+ one extra week of just PURE laziness) and I have something super cool (at least in my opinion) to review! A grocery store line close to my home just started carrying ONE brand of vegan cheese. FINALLY! I have been waiting for this for YEARS! I know American vegans have it much easier, because you've already had grocery stores carrying vegan cheeses for quite a while. But I'll give that one to you, because y'all also have so many more yummy non-vegan temptations to withstand (a.k.a. Taco Bell, ...). I could have ordered some cheese through various online shops, but that would be quite expensive and I didn't feel like it would be worth the hassle.


So, the cheese I got at Merkur (the grocery store) is called Wilmersburger Scheibenkäse and it cost 2,79 € per 150 g (that would be around $ 3,70 per 5.21 ounces) if I remember correctly. It’s not cheap, but it’s not something one is supposed to eat on a daily basis anyways so I think it’s alright. Now moving on to taste and texture. The structure is just like cow cheese slices and the color is pretty close to cow cheese as well. The taste is just like what’s known as American cheese or sandwich cheese. That might turn some people off, but I have always liked that sort of cheese and if I’m not completely crazy it tastes EXACTLY like Hochland Scheibenkäse (which I used to love, but we never bought it, ‘cause it was more expensive than other brands). I was pretty surprised at my family’s reaction to the taste as well. I almost expected them to make choking noises and spit it out haha. But they were good sports and confirmed the taste to be like American cheese. (The things written on the package mean: free of lactose, free of milk, purely based on plants and obviously vegan haha)

Of course I wasn’t satisfied with just trying a little piece of it. I made tortilla wraps with rice, guacamole, tomatoes and said cheese. I wasn’t sure if it was going to melt, because apparently some kinds of vegan cheese don’t. This cheese melts really good though! I was so happy when I saw how yummy my wraps looked haha. They tasted great!

 
To sum it up, I am VERY content with taste, texture, color and the ability to melt of this cheese. I’ll definitely buy it on a regular basis and recommend this to you guys as well :). I’ll have to really control myself though, ‘cause I’m typing this right now while eating a tortilla shell stuffed with literally only this cheese. Summer will be here soon, Katie, have some discipline damn it!

Thanks for reading this! Hope to see you again soon :)

Katie Lynn :)


 
PS: I tried making sweet potato fries again while I was at my parent’s house yesterday and they (the fries, not my parents haha) turned out just great! They only took about half an hour and weren’t burnt. So, I’m just going to blame my previous almost-catastrophe with them on the oven in my dorm’s kitchen.

PPS: If you guys can figure out the commenting function on this site (or on Twitter/Tumblr), let me know if you'd be interested in the actual ingredients of the cheese so I can post a picture of them. 

Potato & Tomato Salad Wraps

Since I usually go home for the weekends I get to enjoy some of my Mom's awesome food at least once a week. Yesterday she made her tomato salad (I looooove it!) as a side to their main course which was fish. I boiled, fried & seasoned some potatoes and added some of the salad to the pan when the potatoes were already pretty much done. I let it sit there just until the tomatoes were warm too. Then I got out a tortilla shell, filled it with potatoes & tomatoes, rolled it up and then topped it with some more (cold) tomato salad.

Some potatoes and salad were still left, so I decided to get one of the nori (seaweed) sheets out that I bought a while ago. They contain so much iodine, however, that it's recommended to only eat one sheet a day. I did the same as with the tortilla shell before, rolled it up and topped it with tomato salad. Admittedly, it looks kinda gross, but I promise it tastes a whole lot better than it looks. I like the sea-flavor the nori have, because I always liked eating fish before I went veggie.

These two meals were super easy and fast to make. However, the tomato salad was already done by my Mom so you would have to calculate that time in too. If you don't want to make a separate tomato salad though, you could just cut up a few tomatoes and throw it into the pan with the potatoes. Just don't put the tomatoes in too soon, because you don't want them to lose all their nutrients by heating them up too much.

Maybe you wanna try out this easy & vegan recipe some time :)


Katie Lynn :)