Nutritional Yeast

Nutritional yeast has become my new favorite ingredient in a lot my cooking as of late. I discovered this little gem a few months back when it was called for in one of my recipes: before then I had never even heard of it. It's low fat, sugar free, gluten free, vegan, packed full of B-Vitamins (most are even fortified with B-12) and protein and has an awesome nutty/cheesy flavor. WHY has this never been in my life before?! Let me introduce you to my new friend, and it will quickly become yours too.

Vital Wheat Gluten

You will notice in a lot of my recipes that an ingredient called "Vital Wheat Gluten" will be called for. There are a lot of people not understanding what this is, so I am going to explain here what it is and why it is important to use in all of your baking where 100% whole wheat is used. Gone are the days of having to use 1/2 wheat flour mixed with 1/2 white flour!