Comments on: Almost Vegan Crockpot Lasagne (Deliciously plastic-free)

By: JessTrev

JessTrev — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:25:00 +0000

YUM! Love the yams. Great idea. They are fabulous, btw, mashed with mole sauce in enchiladas. Thanks for the shout out! Any time you want to talk recipes, I am *here*. Love to cook. And also love that you saved the chicken juice from making cat food. Pretty fabulous. Next time you can throw some over your enchiladas to keep em moist!

By: monkeyjen

monkeyjen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:21:00 +0000

What is this “ALMOST” business?? You can do better than that. JKJK. I think you should put some sausage in there. Anyway, I think you could buy cheese from the deli counter – either fresh mozzarella balls or maybe sliced provolone. Provolone would be good. You could always bring the little deli bag to our house and we will use it for Tiger’s special presents.
ps, thanks for the honorable mention. i knew you would make good use of the gift cert.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:00 +0000

alas, no crock pot here, but i think probably easily adapted. i did make your recipe for chocolate syrup and it is an official family fav now. also, we really like the Skoy kitchen “cloth”. i’ll be buying more. i plan to ask my local store if they will order and stock them.
becky

By: Lauraz

Lauraz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:46:00 +0000

Beth,

Wanted to let you know about the plastic mention in the NY Time technology blog. It's not much but it's interesting.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/?scp=2&sq=Pogue&st=cse

By: froghair

froghair — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:58:00 +0000

yay! glad you’re enjoying your new-to-you toy!

By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:43:00 +0000

Awesome. I’m so making this.

By: Anarres Natural Health

Anarres Natural Health — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:33:00 +0000

You can make an awesome cheese sauce by toasting cashew butter with margarine or oil, then stirring in good tasting farmer's yeast, sea salt and water until you get your desired texture.

I am going to try this recipe.

I used to use a layer of bulgar wheat in my vegan lazagne in place of meat.

Love & RRRevolution, Tracey

By: jill

jill — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Since you have acces to such great bulk bin fare check for bulk dried tomatoes. They make great paste. Just cover a quantity with boiling water and soak until soft. Whiz them in a blender or food processor. If you make too much paste just freeze the leftovers in ice cubes trays or in little blobs on a cookie sheet. They store well in a a wide moth Mason jar in the freezer.

By: SusanB

SusanB — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:00 +0000

We like the bionature tomato paste to make pizza sauce with in case you decide to move on to cheeseless pizza (is there such a thing?).

By: Brekke

Brekke — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:19:00 +0000

Not that you could put it in a lasagne, but I buy spreadable cheese that comes in a cardboard circle container with additional foil packaging. I think there might be a plastic string around the container, but that's it. Maybe look into that as an occasional alternative? The one I sometimes buy is Aloutte. It's not perfect in anyway, as there is quite a bit of packaging, but at least its not plastic-y.

And sometimes... i just really need some cheese...

Again, not sure it could go in lasagne.