Saw this in the Times --looks good

I really like this Mac and Cheese recipe, my 13 year old wants to go vegan and this would be a fab thing and I could eat it too

I made this tonight... by the recipe it's bland and doesn't quite do it for me. But... I added 3x the mustard, hot sauce (1 Tbs Cholula, 1 teaspon tabasco), white pepper, garlic salt, and just a small amount of white truffle oil. Tastes quite a bit like the Kraft stuff, but creamier... The sauce is a good base... make it taste better with more seasonings.

If you've never made vegan mac & cheese before, you might expect this to taste like real cheese, and you may be disappointed when it doesn't. However, it is something delicious in itself, with some modifications. I used 4 tbsp. white flour, added a tsp. of corn starch, 3 tbsp. nutritional yeast, 1 tsp yellow mustard, and 2 tsp spicy brown. I also added some turmeric for color. Instead of granulated garlic and onion, sauteed shallots and garlic and added it straight to the sauce to simmer with it. I thought it seemed runny, so I tried putting it on some of my pasta, and it worked great! The whole thing was enough sauce for 16 oz of pasta, not 8.

I made this for lunch today. I used Almond milk and a 1/4 cup of Nutritional Yeast. It came out excellent! A dash of Tumeric for color and topped with fresh parsley was a hit.

I made this for lunch today. I used Almond milk and a 1/4 cup of Nutritional Yeast. It came out excellent! A dash of Tumeric for color and topped with fresh parsley was a hit.

If you use rotelli (corkscrew) pasta made of white flour, it's not gluten-free anymore. I'd replace it with brown rice gluten free rotelli

I don't use mustard in mine (just don't like the stuff), but I do add a little bouillon (no water - just add it to the non-dairy milk), which gives it a more savory flavor. My favorite is "Better than Bouillon," but any vegan bouillon cubes or paste would work.

Acatlady2 - You absolutely cannot make this without the nutritional yeast. Nut. yeast serves as the cheese flavoring/substitue & can be used to make fake nacho cheese as well. If anything, this recipe could use way more of it. Most fake cheese recipes have at least a 1/4 cup.

What purpose does nutritional yeast serve in these vegetarian recipes? Can I do without it in this one?c

I made a few alterations to this recipe and found it to be delicious! Even though I am neither vegan, lactose intolerant, or gluten free, I do like experimenting and found this recipe to be very much like mac cheese! What I did was I used regular white flour and added a bit more than the recipe calls for. Also I used a quarter of a yellow onion chopped, and sauteed that and added it to the sauce...also I cooked the sauce for a longer period of time on lo heat. Also used double the margarine :] DELICIOUS!

This was terrible! I'm a very competent cook and a lifelong vegetarian...I had hoped to find a vegan alternative to a traditional comfort food, but this was basically not edible. After a taste test I added a little more yeast as suggested above, but to no avail. Although I wasn't expecting a perfect imitation of the cow's milk version, this didn't even taste like ANY food I would want to eat, much less macaroni and cheese.

i love this recipie. i added extra flour to thicken the uncheese, and it turned out great. my 3 year old loves it too.

I am vegan. Of course this does not taste like cows milk cheese -- it is not cows milk cheese. What a fantastic alternative to the little blue box of processed yellow stuff that so many of us grew up on. We love this recipe at our house and think that it is a great alternative to the unhealthy junk on the store shelves.

Okay, so I'm not a vegan, but I enjoy making vegan stuff occasionally. This was crazy. It absolutely did not taste like cheese. The sauce was totally runny--I had to add wayyy more rice flour than what the recipe called for. In the end, it was uninspiring, but edible. I added the Polish vegetable seasoning, Vegeta, which made it somewhat more palatable. Oh well!