vegan cheese: I'm eating with my non-vegan extended family tomorrow and I need a good recipe. I'll have time to make something in the morning, but not something too extravagant. The more common the ingredients the better. Please people, keep the tofu to a minimum. No broccoli, peppers, cucumbers, or celery please. I doubt that anyone would use these for Easter, but I don't have cardamom or coriander. And don't center the recipe around cheese, as I have yet to find a vegan cheese that I like. Thanks!|||My stepmother-in-law is vegan and she makes a dish with Quinoa, avacado, tomatoes, palm hearts, spices and some oil. It is really good. Sorry I don't have a full on recipe for you. You could substitute the quinoa for another grain if you like.|||Russ Parsons, who is a food writer for the Los Angeles Times just did an article on making a meal of asparagus. He likes the big fat spears, that can be roasted or steamed and drizzled with some good extra virgin olive oil, a little coarse salt and a squeeze of lemon. http://www.latimes.com/features/food/|||I'll give you some ideas and you can look up recipes for any that interest you: Bean salads like cannelloni beans with onion, olive oil and red wine vinegar, mexican bean salad, chickpea salad, 3 bean salad raw vegetable and pita chip platter with hummus dip a baby spinach and strawberry salad hot or cold grain dish with rice or barley or bulgar--maybe use some lovely swiss chard Sweet potatoes baked with fresh orange juice, vegan spread, agave nectar and pecans grilled leeks or fennel with a balsamic vinegar reduction Spinach sauteed with raisins and pine nuts asparagus-- grilled bundles or orange or lemon glazed or sauteed with garlic gingered carrot coins so many wonderful options!