Vegan Pasta Primavera

Tonight's dinner was delicious vegan pasta primavera. I've never tried it before and I just kind of made it up as I went along. Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

Noodles, 1 package of penne or linguine or whatever you like, prepared according to package

Vegetables (chopped up into bits):
1 1/2 cups baby bella mushrooms
1 onion
1 zucchini
1 yellow squash
1 red pepper
1 cup of fresh peas, or frozen peas, thawed

Other stuff:
3 cloves of garlic, minced
tarragon and basil: I used fresh but I suppose dried would do as well
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil, several tablespoons
3 tbsp Earth Balance margarine
3 tbsp of flour
3 tbsp nutritional yeast
About 1 1/2 cups of almond or soy milk (or rice, or whatever milk you please)

Saute the onion and mushrooms in some of the olive oil in a very large pan. This is the pan you'll be combining everything in at the end, so make sure it is capacious. As the onions become translucent, add in the rest of the vegetables and allow to cook thoroughly. Add the cooked pasta along with the tarragon and basil. Stir around so the herbs and the olive oil coat all the veggies and pasta.

In a small saucepan, heat the Earth Balance and three tablespoons of olive oil with the garlic. Whisk in the flour and create a paste. Slowly add the almond or soy milk alternately with the nutritional yeast, whisking all the while. It should thicken as it warms up. Be sure to keep whisking it so it doesn't get lumpy and sticky. You may need to add more "milk" or more flour to achieve the consistency you want. A good consistency to aim for is a thick, pourable, creamy one! Add salt and pepper to taste, then pour all of it into the vegetable and pasta mixture.

Top it off with "vegan parma", which is just a little nutritional yeast with finely chopped walnuts and parsley and salt (I think you can buy this at most hippie food stores), or maybe toasted pine nuts, or just enjoy it the way it is. The sauce is lighter and more delicate than the dairy version, but it's lovely in its own way!