My Vegan {Foodie} Life: Pepper Jack Mac & Cheese Mushroom Burger Featuring The Beyond Burger #CurvesGoneVegan

One of the things that I love about food is that you can always be as creative as your palette desires. And while my list of foods I love runs long and deep, three in particular hold a really special place in my foodie’s heart, cheese, mushrooms and burgers.  And being vegan has not stopped me from having all of the above in almost any kind of a way that I have wanted.

One of my goals for the year is to cook more so I started off the new year with my take on Vegan Hoppin’ John and then I was sick for 2 weeks, so the last place that I was even thinking of being was the kitchen.

But now I am back at it and I wanted to do something fun with the Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger, which is the first plant based burger sold in the meat section of select Whole Foods stores.  The company’s purpose for creating The Beyond Burger was to show that you can eat plant based and still get that familiar meat texture and taste without the health, environmental, and animal welfare baggage basically. It is sold in the meat section to essentially meet meat eaters where they shop and let them know that there is a plant based protein option for their meat free days.

It was love at first bite for me when I tried the burger a few months back, so I have been adding them to my regular store runs and I am planning to mix up the fixings I put on them often.  And every since I had The Cinnamon Snail’s Beastmode Burger Deluxe last year in New York City, I knew that I wanted to do my own version of a burger with mac and cheese on it.  So I decided to combine my love of mushrooms, mac and cheese and burgers and Ohhh Emmm Geeeee!!!!😋

The Beyond Burger is soy, gluten and GMO free & cooks up in 3 minutes. It get’s it “meat like” color from beets but they do not taste anything like beets, although I love beets.

If you have been following me for any amount of time then you know that I don’t really do a lot of measuring when it comes to cooking, so this really isn’t a recipe but it’s a burger and you can add as much of the ingredients as you please, which is exactly what I did.

I purchased my favorite vegan macaroni and cheese, some baby bella mushrooms, some spinach and one of my favorite Follow Your Heart vegan cheeses. Oh and I love the “vegan mayo” from Trader Joe’s so I had to slather a little of that on it too.

You do not need to use oil, and although it doesn’t look like it, I really only used a little to get a bit of that char vibe, which is kinda funny because I don’t like anything charred but whatever, I like the darker color & the sizzle. It is a burger after all, right?! 😁

I melted a couple of slices of the cheese in the mac and cheese but I didn’t melt the slices on the burger completely because I am somewhat new to this food photography game and I did not know how long it would take me to get shots and I did not want it to be too much of a runny mess. But the Follow Your Heart pepper jack melts well as you can see on these Gardein Chick’n burgers I made but my favorite melting vegan cheese is Daiya’s cheddar slices.

Hungry for more vegan eats? Check out my Purple Carrot review & my Shamrock Shake Smoothie & my Vegan Hoppin’ John and stay tuned for lots more food to come.

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