Heat up the kitchen with this!
Temperatures are dropping and the leaves are falling. You know what that means? It's time for some MF'ing awesome Pumpkin Mac 'n (NO) Cheese! Put on your apron and let's get cooking!!
Everyone LOVES a great baked mac 'n cheese recipe and this one tastes better than ANY processed sh*t you can get out of a box. Because I LOVE you guys so much, I’m sharing my recipe with you!! How freaking cool is that?!?
Pumpkin Mac 'n (NO) Cheese
Ingredients:
1 cup of cashews, soaked for a few hours in hot water (PRO TIP - microwave them for about five minutes if you forget to soak them before hand. This trick has saved my a** so many times!)
1 cup of organic canned pumpkin (plain old pumpkin, nothing else. Want to get fancy schmancy? Make your own pureed pumpkin!)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1 to 2 tablespoons of crushed garlic - it’s good for you!
Small onion, diced
1 cup Califia Farms Barista Blend Almondmilk (or whatever plant-based milk you like, unflavored obviously)
2 tablespoons miso (I prefer a mild yellow or white miso but whatever floats your boat)
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 lb. box of your favorite vegan pasta!
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Place all ingredients except for your pasta (duh) into your trusty food processor and blend that sh*t together. Add more almond milk or water to thin as you like. The sauce should be thick but not too thick because it will thicken when cooking in the oven.
Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil. Dump your favorite pasta in there and cook until barely al dente. Drain.
Line a baking dish with parchment paper, unless you want to make someone else do the dishes. Pour a small amount of your pumpkin (NO) cheese sauce into the dish to coat the bottom. Add about half of the pasta. Pour about half of the sauce over the pasta. Add the rest of the pasta and then coat with remaining sauce. If you want, stir it up a bit to make sure every piece of pasta is smothered in sauce!
Pop that baking dish into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes. Don't overcook or you'll wind up with a dry a** casserole that nobody will be excited to eat.
Fill up your bowl, sit down and STUFF YOUR FACE!!
Don't forget to grab some vegan cupcakes for dessert, too. This Pumpkin Mac is f*cking fantastic with our Apple of My Eye or The Great Pumpkin cupcakes.
Until next time!
XoXo,
Valerie
P.S. Don't you just hate it when some jackass has to try and talk your ear off when you're just trying to enjoy your GD cup of coffee? Then you need this mug. Send a subtle hint that you'd like them to just STFU already! And if they give you this mug in return, you'll know the message was received loud and clear!
