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Cashew Yogurt Recipe

I happened upon a new website tonight called the Recipe Renovator. The author turns animal protein based recipes into vegan or vegetarian equivalents. I've added her blog to my blog list on the lower right sidebar.

I ate yogurt on my breakfast cereal or oatmeal practically every day of my life, so that's a long time! Until of course I adopted the WFPB diet. I haven't yet tried a soy yogurt, but now that I ran across this recipe for cashew nut yogurt on the Recipe Renovator site I'm keen to try making some of my own yogurt.

Did you know that cashew nuts are a great vegan resource. They can be used to substitute for cream, or used to make vegan cheese and obviously from above, vegan yogurt too. I get my cashew nuts through Amazon's "Subscribe and Save" program. That way I can get them raw and organic at a good discount.



Of course if you are going to start making yogurt at home yourself, it's probably best to get a yogurt maker to avoid the hit-and-miss methods described in the cashew nut yogurt recipe. This is the one that Recipe Renovator recommends.



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