{"id":46,"date":"2010-06-15T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2015-05-04T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:36:47","slug":"daiya-vegan-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/daiya-vegan-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Daiya Vegan Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" title=\"Daiya Vegan Cheese by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4701148015\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1308\/4701148015_9fef5c1a98.jpg\" alt=\"Daiya Vegan Cheese\" width=\"320\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daiyafoods.com\/\">Daiya Cheese<\/a> is here in Edmonton. You can pick it up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsgeneralstore.ca\/\">Earth&#8217;s General Store<\/a> (on 82 ave and 96 st.) The new location is right before the bridge over Mill Creek ravine. When I went in it was $17\/kg (which, I believe makes it the cheapest vegan cheese in the city, and on par with reg. cheese pricing.) I&#8217;ve also heard there will be new packaging soon, so it may be\u00a0available\u00a0in other stores. (But I think I&#8217;ll stick with Earth&#8217;s General Store for my Daiya needs. I love them.)<\/p>\n<p>I picked some up on Thursday, and the first thing I did when I got home was make nacho&#8217;s. I sliced up a tomato, an onion, some olives, and sprinkled some &#8220;cheddar&#8221; and some &#8220;mozzarella&#8221; on top, threw it in the microwave, and made fresh and spicy Pico de Gallo to go with it. It was yummy as expected. It really melts!<\/p>\n<p>I first tried Daiya back in November or December from Food Fight Grocery in Portland and I was really amused to find out that Daiya was actually produced in British Columbia, Canada, but was\u00a0available\u00a0south before it was available east of there.<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing about this cheese, at least to me (beyond the fact it doesn&#8217;t have animal products in it), is that my parents LOVE it, and omnivorous friends have also been very positive.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so close to the real thing that I think it might have some serious potential to sway some of the folks that say &#8220;Oh I can&#8217;t be vegan, I just can&#8217;t give up cheese.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Daiya Cheese is here in Edmonton. You can pick it up at Earth&#8217;s General Store (on 82 ave and 96 st.) The new location is right before the bridge over Mill Creek ravine. When I went in it was $17\/kg (which, I believe makes it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,41,4],"tags":[1383,1376],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daiya","category-earths-general-store","category-vegan-cheesecake","category-vegan-food","tag-daiya","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}