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Chicago – Vegan Shamrock Ice Cream by Chicago Soydairy!

Dan Reed — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:57:31 +0000

Chicago area Temptation Vegan Ice Cream fans! We’re proud to announce that for a limited time the following locations have our super special Shamrock vegan ice cream available! Please go try it out. We’re super excited about it!

Chicago Diner (3411 N. Halsted)

Life on Mars (2910 W Armitage)

Earwax (1561 N Milwaukee Ave)

Brown Cow (7347 W. Madison St – Forest Park)

Great Taste Cafe (355 East Grand Avenue)

Whole Foods (1550 N Kingsbury St only – at the diner in the food court)

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! (part three)

Dan Reed — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:34:15 +0000

Here’s our next round of submissions in our Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! The recipes keep getting more and more intense. I’m so impressed with what’s coming our way and can’t wait to start trying out some stuff from this new batch.

If you have a chance to try any of these please let us know what you thought.

Click “Read More” to start seeing some amazing recipes all featuring Teese Vegan Cheese!

Vegan Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas from Vegan Punk in the Kitchen

Megan rips it up again with these enchiladas. Killer use of our Teese Nacho Cheese Sauce!

Potato Skins from The New Vegan Table

These potato skins look freakin’ perfect. Chives, Teese, sour cream.

Jalapeno Poppers featuring Teese! from All Sorts of Vegan!

Deliciously perfect (and deep fried) jalapeno cheese poppers with Teese!

Vegan Party Potatoes from Vegan Punk in the Kitchen

This rich and creamy casserole rules! Potatos and creamy stuffs? Yes please! Topped with corn flakes!

Portabella Teese Steaks from The New Vegan Table

Absolutely amazing awesome! Portabella Teese Steak sandwich. So ready for this.

Smoky Artichoke Spinach Dip from The New Vegan Table

Another round of artichoke spinach dip. The New Vegan Table is bringing it!

Loaded Sweet Patato Fries from Killa’ Peas On Attack

I love this combination of two things deeply loved. Sweet potato fries and nachos!

Risotto Cakes with Daikon, Carrot, and Broccoli Slaw and Aioli Dressing from Vegan Rah Rah!

Risotto cakes stuffed with Teese!!!! This is a party.

the Gimme a Big Quiche quiche from Miss Rachel’s Pantry

I would love nothing more than to eat this awesomely named quiche recipe every day.

Buttermilk Cheddar Waffles with Sauteed Apples and Savory Syrup from tahinitoo

Brilliant idea to take a waffle and make it savory.

If you haven’t already please check out these other great recipes from our previous posts

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part two)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part one)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! (part two)

Dan Reed — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:15:43 +0000

The entries into our Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge have been amazing. I’m so proud of the submissions we’ve received and look forward to more of these coming in. Everyone worked so hard to create these amazing recipes and we’re very proud to share them with you!

After you’re done reading don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list. We’re going to have some exciting news for fans of Teese Vegan Cheese in the coming week.

Click “Read More” to start seeing some amazing recipes all featuring Teese Vegan Cheese!

Vegan Breakfast Biscuit from abracapocus.org

The breakfast sandwich is probably my all-time favorite breakfast food. This honestly looks way better than anything I’ve ever had!

Garlicky Teese Plantain Omelette from Green Horn

Keeping with the breakfast theme here’s a really awesome twist on the omelette. I can’t wait to give this a try!

Buckwheat Teese Straws from as bad as it looks

These buckwheat cheddar cracker sticks are gorgeous and a perfect snack! AWESOME!

Hot Artichoke-Spinach-’Teese’ Dip from More Than Tofu and Sprouts!

Tofu Mom, you have single handedly made my next party dish the item of the party. Cannot wait to dip into this!

Jalapeño Cheddar Bread from …Self-Discoverments…

This break looks perfect and hearty for an awesome chili!

Vegan Broccoli and Teese Soup from The Zen of Making

This looks like a really simple and nice creamy soup. Maybe it would be perfect with the Jalapeño Cheddar Bread above?

If you haven’t already please check out these other great recipes from our previous post The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part one)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! (part one)

Dan Reed — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:26:32 +0000

A few weeks ago we put out an open call on Twitter and Facebook asking our fans if they had a food blog and to let us know. Without knowing what it was for we got a great selection of bloggers contacting us just to see what was up. We presented them with The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge. We wanted to give some Teese away and empower all these great vegan cooks to get creative and have fun with Teese. To get out of their comfort zone and not make pizza or lasagna. The early responses have been AMAZING and I’d like to start sharing those with you now!

After you’re done reading don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list. We’re going to have some exciting news for fans of Teese Vegan Cheese in the coming week.

Click more to start seeing some amazing recipes all featuring Teese Vegan Cheese!

Teesy Tater Tot Hotdish from Nom! Nom! Nom! Blog

This is amazing! A nice casserole topped with freakin’ TOTS!

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Cheesy Mexican Risotto with Green Chiles from Vegan Food; More Than Tofu and Sprouts!

Risotto.. Not quite standard Mexican fare but Tofu Mom mixes it up and takes the already creamy Risotto to new levels!

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Teeming with Teese Chile Rellenos from Soundly Vegan

DUDE! Soundly Vegan goes somewhere I’ve not been in a long long time. Vegan Chile Rellenos with Teese!

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Seriously Weird Grilled Teese from Soundly Vegan

They gave it this title, not us. This is some next level stuff and people are going to go crazy for this!

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Spinach Casserole, Stuffed Peppers and Tofu and Avocado Sandwich by Sprouting Out Dreams

Eco_Diva brings us three awesome recipes. The Stuffed Peppers are going to rip! The Spinach Casserole brings me back my youth.

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Broccoli-Cheddar Soup by Vegan In Salem

It’s still cold and Winter is perfect soup time. Warm up to this green (green always means healthy, trust me) soup in a bread bowl!

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Pesto Parsnip Panini by tahinitoo

This sandwich is so gorgeous I don’t think I could eat it. But I will.. I totally totally will.

Delisi’s Does Deep Dish Vegan with Teese

cassandra — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:08:49 +0000

In true Chicago Style, Delisi’s Pizzeria in West Rogers Park makes amazing deep dish pizza as well as thin crust pies (with square pieces and all) and panzerottis (think deep fried calzone-y goodness.) What makes this place exceptional, is that they do it all VEGAN as well as traditional.

photo courtesy of the lovely urbanhousewife melisser

The masters of the Chicago pie have been using Teese cheese as well as Upton’s amazing seitan meat substitutes to wow local and traveling vegans alike with pizza perfection we all thought we’d never have again.

They are also offering our Temptation chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream for those with self-control for the pizza portion of the night and room for dessert.

The best news is, they deliver! And they are open LATE! Kitchen closes at 1:30am people. 1-30-A-M.

Check ‘em out on GrubHub or stop by the spot to experience the friendly local bar flavor we at CSD love about this place.

Delisi’s Pizza
5806 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL
773-681-5221

Mac and Teese

cassandra — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:25:31 +0000

Are you like me and loved that macaroni and cheese that came from the box as a kid? I swear since the first day I went vegan I’ve been trying to recreate that taste at least once a week in my own kitchen.

Thank goodness for Teese Creamy Style cheddar sauce! This stuff mixed with noodles is spot on with the extra classy Velveeta boxed mac and cheese my mom would only let us have on special occasions.

Here are the details –
Boil your favorite pasta noodles. Drain them. While they are steaming in the colander I squeeze about half a tube of Creamy Style Teese into the same pan I cooked the noodles in. Heat till smooth and add back the pasta. Could it be easier? Well, maybe you could make it more complicated (and complete) by adding fresh or frozen veggies, burger crumbles, etc, but most nights I like it straight up. Here’s to comfort food on these cold winter nights!

Mint Hot Cocoa Cupcakes with Dandies Marshmallows

cassandra — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:01:24 +0000

Our friend Andrea in Rochester, New York sent us a photo of her lovely creation… Mint Hot Cocoa cupcakes topped with our Dandies Vegan Marshmallows.

While her recipe is top secret we are certain you can come up with your own variation on this delicious theme!

CSD Honors Vegan Warriors

Dan Ziegler — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:11:59 +0000

Employee 0001 and Investor 0010 with Unidentified Homeless Person

Employee designation number 0001 and investor number 0010 both celebrated their 10 year Veganiversary over this past weekend. CSD honored their achievement with commemorative t-shirts and the official 10 year Veganiversary medal. A heartfelt congratulations to both 0001 and 0010 for their commitment. Now get back to work.

-D&R

Team Dandies Completely Dominated Field of Children and Old Ladies

Dan Ziegler — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:43:28 +0000

Team Dandies (Ryan, Dan Keith)

Team Dandies adventure racing team has finally had its first race of the year. Indianapolis, IN was the site of our most recent racing disaster. Despite high hopes that we had finally committed every stupid error possible in adventure racing, we were somehow able to find one more way to screw ourselves in a race. This time, after dragging a canoe for 5 miles through what remains of Eagle Creek after weeks of drought, we somehow managed to get all of our maps wet! There were desperate efforts to put the pieces of the map back together, but even an outstanding Purdue alumni could not save the day. Our faith in this program crushed, we soldiered on to the rest of the course knowing that a disqualification was imminent.

After a short bike ride and another navigation section, we got to repel off the dam into Eagle Creek reservoir. Our ropes were purposely made short and we fell at least 15 feet into the cool clear reservoir waters…cool and clear as long as you ignored the smell that is. Another short bike ride to the section where Ryan got to finally ride a razor scooter. Spandex, bike helmet, and scooters would have made for an awesome picture, but cameras were not allowed as lawsuits were threatened. More bike riding, a sprint to the finish, and 11 hours later we finally crossed the finish line. The race director bought us vegan food from Noodles and Company. Nothing sweeter than sitting down to eat good vegan food after 11 hours of racing. We didn’t place, we didn’t compete, but we have memories…and sand in our shoes. Next time, real water proof map cases!

Post Race Discussion....Who Was in Charge of Dry Maps?

Chicago Soydairy at DC VegFest this weekend!

Dan Reed — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:13:11 +0000

DC VegFest is this Saturday (Sept 12, 2009) at George Washington University. We won’t personally be there but our Dandies Vegan Marshmallows will be! Our friends at Pangea Vegan Products are going to be there demoing and selling Dandies. Please stop by see what our product is all about and have your life changed forever!

Maybe that was a little dramatic… More info on DC VegFest (including location, time, etc) can be found at their website.