Cream Sauce!

You may or may not know that I'm lactose intolerant in addition to having recently developed a dairy allergy of sorts. One of the big things that I miss is cream sauce. Also: cream cheese. For cream cheese as an ingredient, Tofutti's Better than Cream Cheese is a great substitute, like cream cheese with pesto on crackers or cream cheese and jalapeno jelly. But it doesn't have enough of a flavor (for me, at least) to just slather a pile onto a bagel and chow down.

However, I discovered that a couple of tablespoons of Better than Cream Cheese and a big healthy glop of pesto stirred into hot pasta (or veggies) makes a pretty damn good cream sauce! I've done it with Basil Pesto and Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and it works out great. And even better, we use a pasta that's got veggies in it or lots of protein, like Barilla's Picollini or Plus, no it's not a carb bomb for Carl. The Pesto Cream Sauce has next to nothing carbs, too! Most pestos are pretty low carb and Better than Cream Cheese only has 1 carb per Tablespoon!