"Cheesy" Vegan Sundried Tomato Spread

Almost every vegan will tell you that the hardest thing to replicate is cheese.  Almost everyone in Wisconsin will tell you that they'd rather die than give up cheese- including me.  Hence my struggles!

The truth is, nothing can match cheese in all of its gloriousness.  First of all, in Wisconsin we are blessed to have access to thousands of available artisanal cheeses from here and all over the world and almost all of them are fantastic.  Second, nothing will taste like cheese, look like cheese, AND melt like cheese, but some things can do one or two of these things.  

Here is one of those things:

"Cheesy" Vegan Sundried Tomato Spread

Source: Your Vegan Mom

Ingredients:

3/4 cup raw cashew pieces (I could only find raw cashews at The Willy St. Co-op)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1/2 teaspoon salt
scant 3/4 cup plain soy yogurt (or 1 6-oz. container) (I found at The Willy St. Co-op)
1 clove garlic
about 6 small sun-dried tomatoes

Directions:
1. In the bowl of your food processor, grind the cashews finely.  
2. Add the other ingredients, reserving a couple pieces of the tomato, and process until smooth.  
3. Add the rest of the tomato and process again to leave some identifying chewy red bits.   

4. You can serve right away, or chill first.  This spread will thicken up in the fridge. 

Yum!