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If your not very happy with vegan cheeses you could always try vegetarian cheeses! 'Galaxy' is a vegetetarian cheese company, some of their cheeses are vegan. Others are vegetarian due to their casein additive.
Here are healhty cheese alternatives I can think of:
Raw Cheeses: Cashew cheese, almond cheese or any nut based cheeses. I have seen a book on these at Amazon.com
Raw Dairy Cheeses: These are not heated over 118 Degrees. Raw dairy cheese along with raw dairy milk, kefir and yogurts are suppose to have the digestible lactose enzym in their products. I heard that once cheeses are pasturized they loose their lactose enzyme which makes lactose intolorant people able to consume these types of diary products easier.

I have made cashew cheese and I was quite satisified with it! I thought I could use them as a dip instead of hummus. I ended up using it to make kale chips. I just added bell pepper, lemon, braggs or tamari, water, garlic and nutritional yeast. The cheese itself was amazingly delicious! If you make cashew cheese I recommend rinsing and soaking the cashews for a couple to 4 hours.
A great place to find raw vegan cheese recipes is the Cafe Gratitude cookbook, other raw cookbooks will have them I'm sure. And Cafe Gratitude has a WONDERFUL and AMAZING raw vegan Nacho Cheese sauce. I think people can order in on their website.
Nutritional yeast is wonderful in B vitamins for vegetarians, so that is the main concept when working with nutritional yeast.
My expierence with nutritional yeast is that it adds a flavor which substitutes real cheese.
I believe that when working with nutritional yeast the important key element is the EQUIPMENT! I think I love Cafe Gratitude's nacho cheese is because of their equipment. It blends everything very well, unlike cheap home blenders or food processors. So, that's a key concept to remember. If your not happy with your developed result, the best high-quality equipment makes it the best because thier powerful blades blend everything together the best.
In conclusion, try not to be dismayed with your final product. You will create a more delicious product if you have a very sharp blade on your blender.
I hope this helps and will inspire you to not give up on your quest for perfect recipes when working with nutritional yeast and vegan/vegetarian or raw cheeses. Remember, their are many cheese alternatives out their for people to try. If your not satisfied with those you could choose vegetarian cheeses which are developed with rennate or animal enzymes. If you want to find certain companies online that sell their vegetarian cheeses in your local grocery store, google 'vegetarian cheese'. I know 'Sargento' is a vegetarian company.
Just to let you know my favorite kind of cheese cake is exactily vegan cheesecake. A really good recipe is from the "Peta" cookbook. I love it so much! I'm not a real cheesecake fan, with all the dairy and stuff. I'm gluten free too, so since I've created it the first time, I will alter the recipe. I'm using GF 'Namaste' flour with date paste as the sweetner. I'll probably use 'Earth Balance'.
A good place for finding nutritional yeast cheese recipes is online, you'll probably find hundreds already online.
Well, Good Luck on your journey with Nutritional Yeast!
From,
Julie Swartout :-)

Kristen- I love to lightly bread tofu with nooch prior to frying or baking it. Pan frying it gives it a delicious buttery cheesy flavor. I also sprinkle it on just about anything, stir fries, steamed veggies, pizza, burritos, etc. Good luck!

I now sprinkle it on top of pastas, make mac and "cheeses", use it for cauliflower, sprinkle on top of soups etc.

Whoops yes, it is the nacho cheese sauce. Maybe this link will work:
http://kristensraw.com/blog/2009/03/04/kristen-suzannes-ultimate-raw-vegan-hemp-recipes-now-available-in-print-plus-an-awesome-recipe/

I remembered a great way to enjoy daiya cheese. I found a recipe from You Tube. I enjoyed the recipe with chips. I hope it exites you about dairy free cheese sauces or nacho cheese sauces. After I saw the video I was HOOKED! It's just so amazingly delicious!!!!
Here is the link:

http://suprememastertv.com/veg/?wr_id=1063
Here's the Recipe!!!
Ingredients


(For all ingredients, please use organic versions if available)
3 cups unsweetened soy milk (or almond milk or rice milk)
¼ cup sweet rice flour or brown rice flour
2 tablespoons vegan butter (or olive oil or canola oil)
3 cups (12 ounces) grated/shredded vegan cheddar cheese
(Daiya vegan cheese recommended)
1 teaspoon mustard
½ teaspoon fine sea salt
Served with:
For the Nachos Supreme:
tortilla chips, beans, salsa, vegan sour cream
For the Cheesy Pasta:
⅓ pound pasta, spinach or kale or broccoli (optional)



Directions




Pour 2 ¾ cup of soya milk into the pan, and turn the pan on medium high. Let it simmer. Be careful not to scald it and not to set the burner too high. Stir once a while. And pull the pan off the side if it gets hot too fast.
Meanwhile, pour 1¼ cup into a bigger bowl and slowly add in ¼ of gluten-free flour or healthy flour. Mix it with a whisk or a blender. This will be used to make the thickener for the vegan cheese sauce.
Slowly pour in the thickener into the sauce.
Add in 2 tablespoons of organic canola oil or olive oil.
Add in 1 tablespoon of mustard.
Add in ½ cup of nutritional yeast.
Add in 1 teaspoon of sea salt or just a pinch of salt for salt avoider.
Add in one 8 ounce package of cheddar flour.
Stir it up.
How long it stays on a burner is just until it starts to see the cheese start to melt.
Once the cheese already melt and the color of the sauce is starting to look like the color of a regular cheese sauce, put the sauce into a blender. And pulse it.
Let it blend until the sauce gets creamy and smooth.
Once it is done, put the sauce in a container and freeze it.
To make “Nachos Supreme”, just spread some nachos on a platter.
Pour the vegan cheese sauce.
Add on it some red beans, or black beans or edamame, or lima beans.
Add some organic salsa and some organic vegan sour cream.
The “Nachos Supreme” is ready.
To make Cheesy Pasta, use pasta or spinach (can be raw or steamed or blanched spinach) or broccoli or any kind of vegetables. Blend the spinach into the vegan cheese sauce in a blender.
Add in hot peppers, red peppers or smoked dried paprika for anyone who like hot dishes.
Mix the vegetable cheese sauce into hot rice or any kind of pasta.
Ready to be served.