The story goes: You see your cousin that you never see except on Christmas, she asks how your life is going, you tell her about your job, your yoga class, your vegan blog... Then she goes, "Oh I could never go vegan! I love Cheese too much!!" And you debate whether or not it's worth it to tell her that the hormones in cheese are what are addicting her to it... but you decide-- it's not. Then you come home, and cook up one of eight zillion recipes for Vegan Mac and Cheese that paper the internet and fill your cookbooks, which fill your shelves, and sit down. Take a bite. Laugh. Maniacal laughter. How dumb is the rest of the world? This is the best tasting food ever. Not only do you disagree on multiple levels with the ethics of animal cheese, but there are so many question marks as to WTF is in there and what it could be doing to your body. All of that aside, because Who gives a shit, this mac and cheese is all you are ever going to need, crave, or want to eat ever again. 

Now everybody has got their favorite mac. Some people are all about the baked-in-a-casserole-dish mac, some people want it to taste as close to the kind that came from a blue box as possible, and some people will really just eat anything and like it. Mine varies from time to time. Current favorite? It's the Roasted Red Pepper Mac from Isa Does It, but you could have guessed that, couldn't you?

I sprinkle it with a little extra salt, add a bunch of extra nooch, and do a bunch of chili flakes. This is just what I do, do what you like. You can put chili powder on it, paprika, gummy bears. Do what you will. You're the one who is eating it-- Customize your mac!

I also love mushrooms. The BF leaves town like all the time, which is alright by me as long as it gives me license to cook all the food he doesn't like and eat all the mushrooms I've been missing out on since the last time he went out of town. We in mushroom town now.