Took some vegan cheese samples & the signs on a road trip. Hopefully some good came out of it 😜🤞 New stockist? 🤞

Pure Cashew Soft Cheese - Cashews, Salt, my homegrown cultures & time. That's it. No yeast, no miso, no spices. Authentic enough? 😬 You guys know I don't roll my stuff in herbs so I won't be doing that 😜 Being mostly cashews it is still a premium product so going to see how it works in tomorrow's Vegan fair.

It's quite hard to get a decent photo of the Cracked Black Peppercorn vegan cheese. It's a cheese that hates the light 😅 Been slicing & packing cheese for upcoming events such as this Saturday's Vegan Festival in Cardiff with @vivacharity. While doing so, I noticed that I've inadvertently been stock piling the pepper & chili cheese. I have cheese wheels that are well over a month old now, and oh my, they are good. Can't wait till I get a bigger place so that I can mature all my cheese for longer! Who needs dairy!?!

Here we go - a pizza with my Vegan Feta! Reposted from @a_little_vegan_life - Stop 🛑 putting substandard Vegan Cheese on you're pizza. I used Vegan Feta from @crummysummy on my pizza last night and it was a revalation. With plenty of tasty Veggies and garlic, a little feta goes a long way.

@sowandarrow_'s valentine's seems to be the vegan feta ❤️ Reposted from @sowandarrow_ - Ahhhhh....cashew nut feta ❤️❤️❤️ I am in love with this new little beauty!! Thank you @crummysummy for bringing cashew feta into my Paleo life! 😂 I had it with a paleo bread roll and fermented tomatoes yesterday and felt like I’d gone to cheese heaven!! 😇This Valentine, my ❤️goes to vegan feta!! 😋🌱💚 Has anyone else tried it yet?!

Think this one has failed. Three month matured cheddar. Really crumby texture with complex nutty flavour notes. However, there's an odd aftertaste & smell sooooooooooooo 😬

I try to please everyone but I think I need to shelf the yoghurt (yogurt?) again 😅 It's a space issue and to break even & keep up with the demand, I need to fill all the fridges & caves I have with vegan cheese and then some. Looking into a commercial kitchen has proven difficult with so many requirements that I need as an authentic / traditional cheesemaker. Converting the garage is my only option however there's no access of sewage water. Would need to look into it waste water tanks & weekly collections to see if it's affordable. Anyway, if you need yoghurt, message me and I'll make a small batch for you. Compared to cheese making, it's easy 😅

I'm eagerly waiting for this Saturday's event in Cardiff for the @vivacharity Vegan Festival. My entire range of cultured vegan cheeses will be there with maybe a few surprises. Share this event with your Welsh friends as they may want to try some decent vegan cheese for a change 😜 Make sure to tell them I used to make dairy cheese & am bit of a cheese snob 😅 It's on Saturday 16th February with only a £3 entry fee, located in Cardiff City Hall (CF10 3ND). . On the vegan menu: - Original Cheddar (cashew nut based) - Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar (cashew nut based) - Warning Chili Cheddar (cashew nut based) - Feta Cheese (cashew nut based) - Ten-hour Maple Wood Smoked Cheddar (cashew nut based) - Sunflower Seed Cheddar (seed based) - Other cheese surprises (cashew nut based)

When starting my food business, I wanted to do my part in not contributing negatively to the environment. If you been following for ages, you know I hate design & packaging for products. Though, no matter the solution, i refused to have plastic. Each solution did have it's own carbon footprint. Glass has a larger footprint to biodegradable cardboard tubs however it has infinite reuses. . To confuse things further; I never knew where starting the business that biodegradable & compostable were completely different. Cardboard is biodegradable however it takes ages to break down. Compostable materials breaks down faster - weeks to months, rather than months to years. . The solution I have for my cheese is far from perfect (looks naff & there's waste with excess packaging), however it's doing my part for the environment & longevity of the cheese (3 month Best Before on sealed cheeses rather than a few weeks). . Other things I do to not leave the world in a worse of state: - Use a combination of compostable gloves & washable cotton gloves for food prep - Buying in bulk where possible (cashews, coconut oil, etc) - Buying local where possible (starch, grains, etc) - Offering cheese cut off the wheel on the stall to minimise packaging & waste - Reusing containers where possible - Made my sandwich board sign from a pallet - Grow my own herbs for my products - and much more . There's still areas I need improvement on but hopefully I'm on the right track. My immediate fix list is: - Some suppliers still love bubble wrap - Some suppliers individually wrap items in plastic - Some things I buy personally have plastic - Big cheese wheels are vacuum packed in heavy duty plastic bags . Anyway - The packaging may look like plastic, but it's not! 🙂 P.s. why do people keep taking ugly photos of me 😭 Reposted from @zero.waste.bristol - Today we stumbled across @crummysummy selling some delicious vegan cheeses at the Vegan market. We bought some and took it away in a paper bag provided, but the cheeses were also sold in home compostable clear plastic wrap, which is so good to see. - - - #zerowasteliving #zerowaste

This colourful dish by @sowandarrow_ in Clevedon is vegan AND paleo ANNNNNNNND it has my cultured vegan feta! . . Reposted from @sowandarrow_ - Vegan feta with our kale and pomegranate salad🤤🤤🤤 Sauerkraut and @hunterandgatheruk egg-free avocado mayonnaise.

Morning! Today's vegan market at @stnicksmarket is fully of naughty stuff!

Blessed to be considered the best vegan cheese monger 😅 Though, is that in the whole of Bristol? UK? Or just at the @tfsundaymarket on this very day? 😂 Anyhooooo, tomorrow you can locate me at @stnicksmarket vegan market till 3pm. . On the vegan menu: - Original Cheddar - Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar - Warning Chili Cheddar - Feta Cheese - Ten-hour Maple Wood Smoked Cheddar (limited)

@sowandarrow_ now sell my Vegan Feta. They will also use it in their menu in the cafe! Food there is really nice so check them out!

The best ones are together at the @tfsundaymarket 😅😜 @chocbox_uk @bombaybrrrrunch & @norty in the vid.

I'm here at the Tobacco Factory (@tfsundaymarket) with a very small batch of pre-portioned out cashew cultured yoghurt (mixed weights). Drop by before 2:30pm if you would like some! . On the vegan menu: - Original Cheddar - Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar - Warning Chili Cheddar - Feta Cheese - Ten-hour Maple Wood Smoked Cheddar - Cultured Cashew Yogurt

@tfsundaymarket tomorrow till 2.30pm. I'll be having a chai & hummus for breakfast! . On the vegan menu: - Original Cheddar - Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar - Warning Chili Cheddar - Feta Cheese - Maple Wood Smoked Cheddar - Cultured Cashew Yogurt (potentially if I get time to pack some in the morning)

About to blitz the crap out of several KGs worth of cashew nuts so I can inoculate them with my secret cultures! They'll come out the otherside sometime in the the future tasting of super tangy soft cheese to be used in an my hard cheese products.

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The Maple Wood Smoked Vegan Cheddar Cheese is now available in @consciencefoods in Keynsham, along with my other range. Samples are available on request by the lovely Helen & Jon. This vegan cheese is traditionally made & smoked using a cold smoking system. Using actual Maple Wood, the cheese is smoked outdoors for a minimum of ten hours and then rested for at least a week. Smokey notes are complemented with subtle hints of sweetness. Even if you don't like smoked cheeses, I urge you to try this one. I never liked smoked flavours but I think that may be due to the use of artificial liquid smoke or excessive use of smoked paprika. By going the extra lengths to use real smoke & a delicate one, thanks to the maple wood, it has definitely converted me.

Next event is Sunday at the Tobacco Factory (@tfsundaymarket). I have no plans to sell any vegan valentine-esque cheese (cannot be bothered) but I know a vegan chocolate guy (@chocbox_uk) who should be there 😜 If you don't have a valentine then I'll happily accept chocolates from you 😁😜❤️ . On the vegan menu: - Original Cheddar - Cracked Peppercorn Cheddar - Warning Chili Cheddar - Feta Cheese - Maple Wood Smoked Cheddar - Cultured Cashew Yogurt (potentially) Market is on Sunday in Southville, Bristol. 10 till 2.30pm. The event after that is Monday at @stnicksmarket.

Am I the vegan cheese guy? Cashew guy? Ferments guy? Don't know what I do these days. Have a million ideas but have limited time, resources & space to implement them. Doesn't stop me from experimenting though. Been playing around with my cultures to go from yoghurts (still don't know on their return date but are available on special request) to fermented probiotic yogurt drink to yoghurt cheese. We all know I can ferment seeds to make cheese (full release of Sunflower Seed Cheese coming soon, though it may make an appearance at next week's vegan festival). One of my experimental cheeses from last year included a dash of store bought almond milk with the fermented cheese base. It was given away in my birthday competition & was well received. The cheese had delicate flavours & soft buttery mouth feel, similar to goats cheese. All of these ideas and I need to pick one to keep myself relevant 😂. So in the mean time, I made cashew milk (1:4 ratio of cashews & water in cup measurements (1 cup cashews = 150g)). Could turn this into a Kefir-esque (fermented) product or just use it in my cheese. I need another fridge to store all this...

Yesterday's vegan cheeses that I smoked. May have smoked them a tad too long, the rind is coming away 😅 Should be fine though 😬 I'll be at Cardiff's Vegan Festival hosted by @vivacharity on the 16th Feb, hopefully this will be enough of the smoked stuff to cover the event 😁🧀

Made a lot of vegan feta today (old photo though). We all know that vegans don't just eat salad/rabbit food, though I love a good salad done well. However, there are some cafes/restaurants that may just do that. Dairy cheese in salads is quite common too, and the Vegan alternative is to just dish it out with the cheese removed without a replacement. If you know of such cafes committing such cheese treason (chreeson?), tell them about me 😉 I sell commercial size blocks of the vegan feta as well as wheels of the other cheeses.

Just popping out to have a smoke.