Wicked Serious Carbonara - Meat Free Monday

Ingredients

• 1 cup/200 g raw cashews, soaked for a few hours and rinsed (if you’re short on time, boil the raw cashews with the cauliflower in the first step in the directions below)
• 400 g cauliflower (roughly 1 head) cleaned and dismembered into large pieces
• 5 garlic cloves, peeled
• pinch of salt
• 1 bay leaf
• 3 cups of water
• ¼ cup/50 g pine nuts, toasted (optional)
• 1 tablespoon white miso paste (optional)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 32 oz/900 ml unsweetened soy milk (or your favourite non-dairy milk)
• 2 cups/400 g shiitake mushrooms, sliced
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• ¾ teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 lb/450 g fresh fettuccini
• ½ large onion, medium diced
• 2 cloves garlic, sliced thin
• ½ cup/100 g peas, fresh or frozen
• small bunch of flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked, lightly packed
• cracked black pepper
• coarse salt