{"id":1972,"date":"2013-07-12T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T03:30:17","slug":"new-to-me-soul-to-bowl-sauces-creamy-vegan-alfredo-and-made-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/new-to-me-soul-to-bowl-sauces-creamy-vegan-alfredo-and-made-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"New to Me: Soul to Bowl Sauces &#8211; Creamy Vegan Alfredo and Made in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soultobowlsauces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul to Bowl Sauces<\/a> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/nonavegan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nona Vegan Foods<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been house\/cat sitting for a friend for the last couple of weeks, and during that time I&#8217;ve gotten to know Evergreen Natural Market (161 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto) really well. As it is, I go there fairly often, even though I don&#8217;t live in the area,\u00a0but now that I&#8217;m right in the neighbourhood&#8230; well, I&#8217;ve probably gone everyday. Last week I saw something <strong>NEW<\/strong> and tasty looking. It also had that nice shiny V word on it and looked like something I might want to eat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Soul to Bowl &quot;Creamy Vegan Alfredo&quot; - at Evergreen Market in Roncesvalles by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/9217658957\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7307\/9217658957_b4360cdaf5.jpg\" alt=\"Soul to Bowl &quot;Creamy Vegan Alfredo&quot; - at Evergreen Market in Roncesvalles\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello <a title=\"Soul to Bowl Vegan Sauces\" href=\"http:\/\/soultobowlsauces.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul to Bowl Sauces<\/a>, and get in my belly. I hesitated for a second and thought to myself&#8230; do I really need such a sauce? I could probably make one at home right?\u00a0Could I? Maybe (?). Did I want to? No.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Soul to Bowl Vegan Sauce - Found at Evergreen Natural Market by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/9267463847\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7304\/9267463847_c55cfcaacc.jpg\" alt=\"Soul to Bowl Vegan Sauce - Found at Evergreen Natural Market\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been available at the Wychwood&#8217;s Evergreen Natural Foods (513 St Clair Ave) for a month or so, but of course &#8211; I nearly never go up there. Currently, it&#8217;s only at these two Evergreen locations, but the creator is aiming to branch out soon to other businesses. Today I bought all of the remaining jars at the location on Roncesvalles &#8211; sorry (not-sorry). But I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll get restocked soon. (P.S. sources tell me It&#8217;s been restocked already)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy I picked it up when I saw it, because it paired perfectly with the semi-fancy, but sort of lazy meal I wanted to make that night. Smoked marinated tempeh\u00a0steaks, fried on a cast iron skillet, fettuccine pasta, and some roasted local asparagus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6163-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Food.\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6163-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6163-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_6163.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eventually we also topped the asparagus with the sauce, but I could see it&#8217;s multiple potential uses as I &#8220;sampled&#8221; it out of the jar. It&#8217;s fine to have it hot or cold, so it&#8217;s good on pretty much anything that needs to be savory. Mashed potatoes. Broccoli. Salads. You want to savoury something up? This sauce makes that happen. I dipped kale in it. Also delicious.<\/p>\n<p>Kailey (the owner\/creator of Soul to Bowl), developed the recipe for the Creamy Vegan Alfredo with her late Italian mother after realizing that there was something missing from the vegan\/alternative food world &#8211; vegan, soy-free, gluten-free prepared sauces. And while I&#8217;m not soy-free or gluten-free, I sure know a lot of people that are, and it&#8217;s nice to have a tasty prepared product to recommend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to try out some of the future potential incarnations of sauce &#8211; like a fully organic one, spicy, sweet potato, a fagioli, and a kids one, but for now, I&#8217;m quite happy to have a jar of this sauce in my fridge&#8230; just in case. Full disclosure: I&#8217;m eating it right now mixed with macaroni.<\/p>\n<p>So try it out, and let me know if you agree!<\/p>\n<h2>Soul to Bowl Sauces &#8211; Company Info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Made in Toronto.<\/li>\n<li>The sauce is vegan (and made by a vegan), soy-free, sugar-free, &amp; gluten-free. (cashew based)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soultobowlsauces.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00a0(in progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Soul-to-Bowl-Sauces\/219779808160391\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:kailey@soultobowlsauces.com\" target=\"_blank\">kailey@soultobowlsauces.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ingredients:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Soul to bowl sauce ingredients. by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/9271614030\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3800\/9271614030_afff07a9f7.jpg\" alt=\"Soul to bowl sauce ingredients.\" width=\"341\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Soul to Bowl Sauces is now Nona Vegan Foods. I have been house\/cat sitting for a friend for the last couple of weeks, and during that time I&#8217;ve gotten to know Evergreen Natural Market (161 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto) really well. As it is, I go there fairly often, even&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,356,4],"tags":[784,786,785,782,781,783],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto","category-toronto-2","category-vegan-food","tag-evergreen-natural-market","tag-lazy-vegan","tag-new-product","tag-soul-to-bowl","tag-soul-to-bowl-sauces","tag-vegan-alfredo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}