vegan cheese: My best friend's favorite food is cheese and onion pie (he's british). The problem is that he recently became a vegan, and really misses it. I want to surprise him one night with this, but I can't find any recipes for a vegan cheese and onion pie. If you have a recipe that would make my day! Thanks!|||You can make a grain or rice crust, by cooking rice, kasha (buckwheat groats) or barley and then adding a flour like potato, rice or chickpea, a bit of oil and pressing it like pie dough into a case, baking it "blind" for 10-15 minutes at 175 d C or gas mark 3, the filling, saute some white onions to a limp level in oil, do not brown, add some plain flour and a veggie stock to make a onion bechemel, season to taste with salt, white pepper, nutmeg and a bit garlic, as for the cheese, I am a former chef from Canada, and have many chef mates in the UK and travel there often, most of the major shops sell a vegan cheese product, add some to the sauce, grated, and when you pour the mix into the case top with more vegan cheese and then bake again at 175 d C or 350 d F,Gas mark 3 for 25-30 minutes, let it cool for 5 minutes before cutting it to serve, a plain salad with oil and vinegar is nice, even steamed veg for a side is nice, you can do the same with asparagus, mushrooms even carrots for a different take on it.|||I agree with the unknown chef!