The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook Delicious Dairy Free Cheeses and Classic Uncheese Dishes

The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook Delicious Dairy Free Cheeses and Classic Uncheese Dishes

This is the perfect cookbook for those who need or want to eliminate dairy products but still enjoy their favorite dishes. This tenth anniversary edition offers completely new versions of the acclaimed, original recipes plus many new ones. You’ll discover a whole new world of flavorful, cheesy-tasting dishes without the cholesterol and dairy allergies that can be harmful to your health. Whether for family dining or elegant entertaining, you’ll find recipes that will suit the occasion.

Renown nutritionist and dietitian,Vesanto Melina, brings you up-to-date on the latest research about dairy and your health. Tables and charts show calcium, protein, and other nutrients in a variety of plant foods to help you safely replace dairy in your diet. And this new edition contains designations for each recipe to indicate whether it is gluten, soy, nut, yeast, and/or corn free for people who are sensitive to a wide range of food allergens.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Yummy recipes
If you’re dying for cheese this book is a must have. I love her soup recipes. I only gave it 3 stars because some of the recipes are extremely hard to do right. A lot of hard to find expensive ingredients.

5 Stars Uncheese Cookbook
This book is wonderful. Have tried a few of the recipe’s…Lemon Teascake, Uncheese Sauce (the one that is lower in fat)

3 Stars Not for a diehard cheese lover
I purchased this cookbook a few years ago, and ended up giving it away. For someone who LOVES cheese, this just will not be a good substitute, because there IS no substitute for cheese! However, I did like the crock cheese recipe, and a couple of others. This would be a good book for someone who is allergic to dairy, or has cholesterol issues & cannot eat cheese. Thankfully, I don’t have that problem. I was just trying out the whole “vegan” thing for a while, and decided it was just too strict & difficult. So, back to the REAL cheese for me…yay!

3 Stars NEEDS SERIOUS TWEAKING, but good idea for cookbook
First, I must point out that I have two OTHER cookbooks from Jo Stepaniak (Vegan Vittles, Table for Two), and they are both pretty bad. The recipes range from bland to gross, and I have never thrown out more food than I have while cooking her recipes (I hate wasting food, but all the other college kids also agreed it was gross, so nobody would take it - THEREFORE leading me to toss). The desserts are AWFUL and the stereotype of what “health food” tastes like. I would NEVER EVER give any of the food in these books to a meat-eater considering a vegetarian diet. For example, putting ALL whole wheat flour produces the toughest and grossest cakes. Or peanut butter and broccoli sandwiches? Are you KIDDING me? !! Yet all her recipes call for stuff like that because health comes as a priority WAAY over taste in her books (which is fine for health food nuts who are already vegan, but a bad selling point to the carnies!). For people who are just looking for cruelty-free TASTE, read on:

I would call this her best cookbook, and there is a lot of creamy comfort food here that I have missed. However again, her recipes are pretty bland as she has set up her track record for. But if you are already a decent cook, you can doctor each recipe, and enjoy creamy comfort food again. I tend to double all the spices she calls for, and double or triple the salt. Also, she uses way too much lemon juice. I cut out about a third to half of her lemon juice.

The mac and cheese sauce, melty white cheez sauce, and nacho sauce are good. The pub fondue is HORRIBLE!!! I eat the grilled cheese sandwiches often and enjoy them (the gooey one is easy to make). Her baked mac and cheese recipes are also not great. NOT CREAMY AT ALL. It just has dried crusts on it. The souffles are also weird and borderline bad. I LOVE the creamy unstuffed shells recipe. The cheesy rice and broccoli was a huge disappointment that can’t be doctored. I ate “South of the Border Fondue” with my good Mexican vegan friend, and while we both enjoyed it, he thought the name was a joke because it resembled nothing near any Mexican food his family members would eat.

The calzones are GREAT, but USE UNBLEACHED white flour, NOT the whole wheat she calls for. It will come out heavy and nasty if you use her whole wheat flour in her recipes. If you really want to use whole wheat, then use less than half in ANY baking recipe.

I didn’t bother to try any of her desserts in this book, because she’s already set up a bad track record from the dessert sections of her other cookbooks, and I’m a decent enough cook to know her desserts will be gross just by looking at the combination of ingredients. I have MUCH better cookbooks for vegan desserts that will wow or fool any carnivore or skeptic of tasty vegan food.

If you want GOOD and TASTY vegan recipes that you would be proud to show off to a carnivore, try any of Sarah Kramer’s cookbooks (”How it All Vegan”, “La Dolce Vegan”, etc..) . “Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World” is also an EXCELLENT dessert cookbook. WOW these are good and will SHOCK any non-vegetarians you know. If you are concerned about health, use organic ingredients and non-hydrogenated margerines and shortening! Also, use fresh rather than frozen veggies/fruits, and used UNBLEACHED organic white flour instead of that bleached white flour.

Enjoy!

5 Stars I LOVE THIS COOKBOOK!!!!
I just bought this cookbook and already loved the first mac and cheese recipe…I have been trying to find recipes that taste great without cheese or gluten…it is really tough..

THANK YOU, JO STEPANIAK, FOR COMING UP WITH THESE RECIPES!!!

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