Vegetarian Star

Rachael Ray hosted vegan couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi on her show and also welcomed their personal chef Roberto Martin. DeGeneres joined the discussion from her studio via Skype.

The group talked about vegan cheese, vegan diets and weight maintenance and shared the couple’s favorite recipes, including stuffed mushrooms; red beans and rice; hamburger spring rolls and fajita quesadillas containing vegan cheddar and mozzarella cheese, something Ellen said reminds her of the real thing.

“I thought that I was going to miss cheese, that that was going to be the hardest thing because I used to love everything, and so I thought cheese was going to be very hard, and it’s not,” DeGeneres said.

Martin mentions that some of the newer brands of cheese melt just like dairy cheese, thanks to some updates on a few ingredients historically used in veggie cheese.

“The cheese performs as good as regular cheese does,”  Martin said.  “In the past, it didn’t…it would get cold and hard.”

Ellen suggests even going for a entree without cheese, saying it leaves more room for vegan cocktails!

The segment featuring Ellen Skyping in can be viewed here.

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