The enormous amount of vegan and vegan friendly food bloggers out there is inspiring, but it’s a bit overwhelming to sift through them all to discover new and interesting recipes. Pinterest is a great visual resource for searching this vast network of blogs, and is additionally a good way of organizing your findings, but I’ve…
Tofu, Polenta, Asparagus, and Beets with Pistachio Cream Sauce
The huge variety of readily available foods that cater to the plant lover’s palette definitely makes being vegan easier and more enjoyable but I think there is a tendency, when trying to develop new recipes and hone our ideas about plant based cuisine, to include this array of extra ingredients as a means of providing…
A Vegan’s Intro to New York
I didn’t know quite what to expect from my first venture to New York City. Having lived in Canada’s largest city for the past 11 years, there was a part of me that expected to not be overly impressed. I thought maybe it would be just another big city – larger than my…
Sweet Potato-Bean Curd Sheets
Bean curd sheets seem to be a bit of a hidden gem for vegans. Amidst the sea of smoothie bowls, this dim sum staple, made from the film produced while boiling soy milk, doesn’t really get the attention it deserves. Like tofu, bean curd sheets absorb flavour incredibly well, making them a versatile power house…
A Vegan in San Francisco
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.” John Muir, an eloquent early advocate for wilderness preservation, a frequent explorer of California, and an occasional San Francisco resident, understood the restorative powers of interacting with the natural…
Hawaiian Pizza
Winter is starting to rear it’s not ugly but certainly unwelcome face. There’s a deep chill creeping into the evening hours and a heavy grey tinge in the increasingly early dusks. There is a temptation to run to the comfort of warm, hearty soups, but for me there’s no greater comfort food than pizza. Hawaiian…
Cheesy Scambled Tofu
Scrambled tofu is a fundamental dish in the herbivore world. It was the first tofu based meal that I made and it has become one of my staples. Breakfast, conventionally egg and meat-centric, is one of the more difficult meals to manage in transition especially while eating with mixed company. Scrambled tofu, much like its…
A Beef with Michael Pollan
Back in February, prolific author and journalist Michael Pollan, known for his opposition to industrialized agriculture and a polluted food culture, released a netflix series called, “Cooked.” The series, based on Pollan’s book of the same name, is an inquest into the cultural and social significance of cooking, and how manufactured foods, processed by corporations,…
Juice/Smoothie Cleanse
I’ve always been skeptical of the whole juice detox trend – mostly because it is a trend, and as such it’s become a highly marketable process that utilizes increasingly exotic, sometimes pseudo, super foods, and charges a small fortune for the opportunity to have a miraculous full body rejuvenation. It’s not the actual nutritional quality…
Pizza Cake
I love pizza. A cheese pizza was the last non-vegan food I ate prior to becoming vegan. It will probably be the last thing I eat before I die. I eat it way too much, but my adoration never diminishes. I was worried when I first became vegan that my pizza love was something that…
Plant and Pine 