Kevin (0:04 - 3:36)
Okay, okay, okay. This episode of Nutrition for Noobs Summer Short only has one host, so I think we should only play half the theme song. So it's just me, riding solo today, Kevin, your chief noob, and I'm all alone today because Michelle's got a lot on her plate.

Did you catch that? A food pun. Even alone I do food puns. So I decided to give her a break and I'd stop harassing her for one episode and I would do this by myself.

And a note to my co-host if she's listening, don't get used to it, Michelle. I'll be harassing you very soon, don't worry. So over the past year you all have heard my ongoing saga of trying to create the ultimate plant-based Caesar salad dressing recipe.

And as you might have heard in recent episodes, I've come pretty close. I don't know if I should call it the ultimate because I'm just setting myself up for failure, but it's pretty darn good, I think, and reasonably authentic tasting to an actual Caesar salad dressing. And it seems that there is actually some interest from some of our listeners about what that recipe is.

I'm calling out to you, Bernadette, Gabe, Semele, and Victoria. It's great when our listeners give us some feedback and all of you have asked for my actual recipe. So it might seem a little bit weird to dictate a recipe on a podcast and I don't want any of you crashing your cars while listening to this.

So eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, okay? So what I'll do is I'll put the actual list of ingredients in the show notes so you can copy and paste that afterwards. And I'll just quickly go through the process here and let you know how incredibly easy it is. So this recipe makes about half a cup which will be several salads worth.

It all depends exactly how much dressing you add and what lettuce you're using and everything else. I usually make a kale salad but you can obviously use whatever, a traditional romaine or anything else. Go for it, make it your own.

So the ingredients are, you start with half a cup of hummus and that replaces the eggs and the oil in a traditional Caesar dressing. Then move on to two tablespoons of panko and one tablespoon of nutritional yeast and a dash of garlic powder. And those three replace the parmesan cheese.

They give the dressing that umami as well as the bulk that parmesan cheese would normally provide. Then we have the standard ingredients. We've got two tablespoons of lemon juice, one tablespoon of white wine vinegar, one tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, one tablespoon of Dijon mustard, a garlic clove or more if you like it garlicky like me, a little bit of black pepper and a half a teaspoon of capers.

And the half teaspoon of capers replaces the anchovy paste. So those are the ingredients and the process. Now this gets really complicated so hold on to your hats okay.

You throw all those ingredients together into either a small blender or I just use a tall sided mixing bowl. It's actually more of a mixing cup I guess. And then I use an immersion blender and just whip it all up, mix it up, blenderize that until it becomes just a nice smooth paste.

Perfectly smooth consistency. Basically you'll know when it's done. Now if you want you can add like a tablespoon or so of oil, olive oil, if you want a little bit more creamier taste and mouthfeel.

Kevin (3:37 - 5:48)
But I find it doesn't add that much so that's up to you depending how oil free you want to be. And if you need a refresher on oil you should go back and listen to Michelle's episode about fats because oil is not a food. And that's basically it.

I created this literally ingredient by ingredient. First replacing the eggs, then replacing the oil, then replacing the cheese and then finally at the end replacing the anchovy paste because I do love anchovies. But I find that everything that replaces these traditional ingredients works really well and it creates something that is greater than the sum of its parts quite literally.

So that's it. As I say I'll throw the list of ingredients in the show notes and I hope you enjoy it. I hope you experiment with it and you enjoy it and maybe try converting some other recipes as well.

Okay and even though I'm alone I still have to have my requisite dad joke. So since I have no audience through the magic of podcasting I'm gonna create a supercut of Michelle's reactions to my previous dad jokes. And something tells me that since I'm in control of this supercut she's gonna find this particular joke incredibly funny.

Okay so are you ready? What did one snowman say to the other? Can you smell carrots? I'm so glad that Michelle liked that particular joke. Okay so that's it for my solo outing of this episode of Nutrition for Noobs Summer Shorts. Something tells me after Michelle hears this it might be my last solo outing.

Kevin (5:49 - 7:17)
Anyways until then in two weeks we're gonna be back to our regular schedule so we're gonna have a full episode for you in two weeks in your feed. Until then if you have any comments or questions don't forget to email us at n the number 4 n o o b s at gmail.com and don't forget eat your greens. And what was Michelle's tagline? Hmm I forget.

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