Vegan Caesar Salad Dressing

You’d think that all salads were vegan,
but caesar salad gets its trademark flavour from anchovies.
This healthier vegan caesar salad dressing boasts that deep slightly briny flavour
salty and cheesy, creamy with some tang.

I feel like I’m back on my two feet again. Starting to pick up the things I’ve been putting on the back burner for ages. For a while now, this place shifted from being a potential source of income to being my diary. I have found more purpose in it as a place for me to express myself than a place for me to make a living, but it’s lead me to a job I love. It’s helped me realize who I am and what I love to do, and that’s all I can ask for.

I couldn’t have gotten to this point without the help of the blogging community. I’ve grown this little corner of the internet with the help of some amazing people. They’re not always easy to find, but you’d be surprised by how the blogging community can be an endless wealth of people who are happy to support each other. I’ve come across plenty of blogging “Mean Girls”. You know who they are: they’re the cliquey, “cool” kids with massive audiences and will snarl and tear others down as soon as you turn your back.

The blogging world is surprising very high school. There are so many different niches, different circles of people within the same niche, but somehow I found a community of people that have been so open to sharing knowledge and happy to life each other up in whatever ways they can.

I’m sure you’ve heard of them before on my blog or someplace else in the blogosphere: Online Blog Con is an online conference that offers something different from any other blog conference I’ve gone to. I went to Blissdom Canada and BlogHer Food and I had both very positive and very negative experiences with them. But physical blog conferences are all about networking and schmoozing, and I really didn’t connect with the blogging community until I joined OBC in 2012.

Back then I was a teeny blog on blogspot with maybe 100 people a day visiting my blog. My photos were abysmal, my writing terrible, and I had no idea what I wanted to do with my blog. But OBC taught me the nitty gritty details of blogging, keeping me in the loop of all the constant changes happening in the blogosphere. The waxing and waning of social media platforms like Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, even StumbleUpon would never have been on my radar if it weren’t for OBC. I wouldn’t have known anything about SEO, how to fix your site if you break it by messing with the code, which hosting companies are good, which brands are good to work with…and don’t even get me started with advertising networks.

Let’s just say, this little corner of the internet would be a spec of dust it weren’t for OBC. I hope you join us for the upcoming conference in the fall. It’s a wonderful place full of friendly people who are encouraged to learn, network, and grow with each other. This year I can’t really afford to go to any big conferences that require a lot of travel like BlogHer Food, but OBC is such a small price to pay for all its ever done for me. This is my second year helping organizing it and I’m so excited to give back to the blogging community what it’s given me. We’re giving away a free ticket this week, so enter, share OBC with your friends, and I hope to see you join the OBC community!

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In other news, if you’ve been following along with me via Snapchat (add me @thevietvegan!), you’ll know that I’m in Pennsylvania. It’s a trip we make every year to drive my cousin back home after she’s stayed with me for a few weeks. It’s been interesting watching her grow up over the years. She loves caesar salad, and I promised her we’d veganize caesar salad for her to eat while she was here. After two batches of caesar salad dressing experiments and probably about a week straight of caesar salad, we perfected the recipe together.

It’s surprisingly simple, the dressing. A lot of the ingredients I already had in my pantry, and the silken tofu lends its creamy texture without being heavy with fats like a nut-based dressing would be. It’s light and flavourful and I don’t even think twice about loading up my salad with a huge dollop of dressing. Sprinkle some extra nooch on top to get that parmesany flavour, toss with some baked Gardein crispy strips and homemade vegan croutons because I doubt I could find any vegan ones out there. The only thing that would make this better is some coconut bacon strips.

Enjoy!

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