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Team Dandies Prepares For Battle!

Dan Ziegler — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:23:22 +0000

Keith, Dan, Ryan

Greetings Race Fans!

It is now common knowledge that the world is going to end in two years (2012). Those of us lucky enough to be representatives for Team Dandies feel that for Dandies to continue in a post apocalyptic world we need to be strong mentally and physically. While we train for this on a daily basis it is good to get outside the walls of the CSD compound to be challenged in new ways. When we heard about the Warrior Dash (warriordash.com) we knew there could be no better test for the challenges of 2012. This 3.1 mile course in Joliet, IL offered more than a few obstacles. Giant mud pits, barbed wire, cargo nets, walls, hay bails, tires, cars to jump over, predators….you get the idea.

Team Dandies had a great showing, and congratulations to Keith Woods for coming in 4^th in his age group and fourth is his heat averaging just over a 6min mile, which is sick considering the terrain AND obstacles. Team Dandies had two top 10 age group finishers and Ryan, who only trains at the skate park, somehow managed to run just over a 7min mile. How he does this with never running I have no idea, I can only assume it is the nonstop diet of Dandies and Pro Bars. As for this esteemed writer, I showed up to the race about 5-10 min after the gun went off. Let me tell you, there is no better feeling than passing about 200 other competitors, kicking mud in their face as I zoomed by. I can only imagine the satisfaction I would have if I were able to compete at the Senior Olympics. Anyway….

Race: Warrior Dash, 2010

Top Dandies Finisher: Keith Woods (4^th age group, 26 / 5246 overall)

Fuel: Pro Bar…always Pro Bar http://theprobar.com

Dude, why are my feet hot?

How does the A-Team make this look so easy?

New recipe for Teese Vegan Cheese!

Dan Reed — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:10:12 +0000

Recently we set out to better Teese Vegan Cheese and the time has come to unveil what we’ve done. We’re really excited to present to you our new recipe for Teese Vegan Cheese! You will begin seeing these in stores in the next few weeks. Along with the recipe change we took this opportunity to update our packaging. If you see Teese in the new packaging you know it’s the new recipe.

What did we change with Teese?

The texture has been greatly improved. The melt is more consistent and less liquid-y.
STRETCH! Our Mozzarella and Cheddar flavors now stretch! Pizza and grilled cheese sandwiches are awesome!
Our Nacho and Cheddar sauces have an improved consistency. The product gets incredibly gooey when heated. Makes absolutely perfect Mac & Teese and Nachos.
Our Cheddar flavor has been altered. We listened to some great feedback from our customers and toned down the Cheddar smell and gave it more of a savory flavor.

Look out for this new packaging. When you see it, you know it’s the new recipe!

We will have some re-introduction sales happening in the next few weeks so please watch for an announcement from us.

If you have any questions we’d love to answer them! Please hit us up here, on Facebook or Twitter. We’re always happy to talk with you!

Here are some photos of the new product in action!

One of our customers sent in this picture of Teese Mozzarella melting.

We sent out some samples to some blogger friends for feedback. Please take a look to see what others have been saying.

New Stretchy Teese Vegan Cheese: A Contender for the Crown from Quarrygirl

Testing New Teese on Pizza from Being Vegan and Getting Away with It

Vote for Your Fave Pizza! from Peta2

Comfort Food; Greek-style from Soundly Vegan

Chicago Soydairy Teese Mozzarella Test-Drive from Alan Heymann

Vegan Philly Cheesesteak from The Vegetarian Librarian

Taste-Testing the Teese from Chicago Soydairy in a Quiche from Lorraine James

Review: NEW Teese Mozzarella! from Vegan Rah Rah!

More Teese Please! from Vegan in Salem

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! (part five)

Dan Reed — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:36:01 +0000

Another week of awesome Teese Vegan Cheese recipes have come in. Really excited to get started on these. Hope you enjoy them and give a few a shot!

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!

Phyllo Fiesta from A Soy Bean

A nice simple, flaky phyllo dough lasagna type dish!

Cheezy Teese-y Au Gratin Potatoes from Happy Vegan Yogini

Mmmmmmm! Cheesey potatoes, the perfect combination.

Smoky Cheddar Biscuits from VenerableBean

These cheddar biscuits look incredibly decadent!

Dang Quesadilla with Nacho Sauce from Get Sconed!

I can always use a good Napoleon Dynamite reference. Gooey quesadillas with Teese Nacho Sauce!

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

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part four)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part three)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part two)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part one)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge! (part four)

Dan Reed — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:10:07 +0000

Round four! Kind of a Cheddar heavy round here. This round also has my personal favorite for most creative of the whole lot (Cheddar Ice Cream). As usual the recipes that have come in have been nothing short of amazing and the creativity flowing through this has been astounding! Must go… Lots to cook!

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!

“Cheddar” Ice Cream from Bitter Sweet

Hannah has helped our company come full circle with this. CSD started as an ice cream company and later we created Teese. This is the perfect marriage of our history! If only it were topped with Dandies!

Vegan Poutine from The New Vegan Table

Thank you New Vegan Table and even more thanks to you Canada for giving us this vegan Poutine.

Taco Salad Mexican Stromboli with Cheddar Teese from Beans and Greens

This vegan stromboli is amazingly gorgeous and looks incredibly hearty.

Mini-Arepas Con Teese from as bad as it looks

Beautiful little nuggets of fried corn!

Vegan Bacon Cheddar Mini Quiches from Hell Yeah It’s Vegan

Vegan Bacon Cheddar Mini Quiches. The title is strong enough. If you don’t make this you will lose.

Mom’s Shepherd’s Pie from Vegan in Salem

Yummy and hearty Shepherds Pie!

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

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part three)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part two)!

The Teese Vegan Cheese Challenge (part one)!

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!