Vegan "alfredo"

When I visited my friend Ann last year, I nearly died laughing at this book:

and at the image you see above in particular.  I'm not really a grammar po-lice, honestly I don't understand the intricacies of English grammar well enough to join that force.  I do however get kind of stabby over abused quotation marks and their sadly misused cousins, the apostraphes.  I just thought I'd share that fun fact- since when I typed "alfredo" up above I started thinking about fresh brown "eggs" and giggling.  Because I am 5.

Anywhoo.  My stepmom An anonymous vegetarian emailed me some time ago a recipe (I really wanted to type "recipe") for a vegan alfredo based on cauliflower (look away, K-dog).  Caulis are cheap or seasonal or something here at the moment and I find myself with 4 in the fridge.  I like cauli, but 4?  It could be time for a Big Roast Up.  The recipe, as written originally would have been pretty bad, but heroically I managed to diddle it into something quite good.  It wasn't very photogenic, but I did take a pic of an empty bowl with about 6 green peas in the bottom.  That was all that was left after one of the dogs cleaned up a portion that I couldn't store.  I figure that if my hounds ate the pasta and sauce, and carefully licked the peas clean before spitting them out, it wasn't too bad.

Here I "present" for you- Pasta "Alfredo":

-1/2 cauliflower steamed until very soft (I threw mine in the slowcooker on HIGH with some boiling water- an inch or so while I went to kid-ballet for about a hour)

 
-an onion (I used one red onion and a few spring onions.  Don't think it matters.  Onion flakes would have been ok too)

1 stock cube (I used Massel "chicken" (see what I did there?)).

- garlic (to taste.  This was pretty bland so I ended up using about a teaspoon of the dried garlic stuff).

- parsley

- salt, pepper

- nutritional yeast

- flour

- pasta

brown onions, add stock, simmer

put cauli, onions and stock into blender (I used a stab blender because that's all I have) and blend it all up.  Taste it- add salt, pepper (lots) and about 1/2 cup of nutritional yeast.  I added some arrowroot flour to get rid of the slightly watery consistency, and simmered it while adjusting seasonings.  When it tastes the way you like it, add some frozen peas- it was so bland looking I had to and even though the dog wasn't impressed I think it was a good move.  The consistency when I served it was like a thick soup, and in fact it would not make a bad soup!

Served on pasta, and it was indeed good.  They way I remember Alfredo is a lot richer and this wouldn't fool anyone, especially cauli-haterz.  But if you like cauli this is a nice, very light pasta sauce.

"enjoy"!