One of the virulent and persistent questions vegans receive is why there are so many mock versions of meat dishes in plant-based cuisine. It seems to almost have replaced the “where do you get your protein from” question. The accusation is that vegans always on some level crave or desire to eat meat because we’re…
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Ten Essential Vegan Cookbooks
Finding and relishing good cookbooks is a vital part of keeping your culinary experience fresh and interesting, but there are so many vegan cookbooks floating around out there that finding ones that suit your cooking style, experience and palette can be a difficult task. I find keeping a good variety of cookbooks is also a…
Apple, Fennel and Endive Salad with Lemon-Garlic-Dill Dressing
I do enjoy a good salad, but it’s easy to fall into a rut especially when you’re using salad as a quick fix. Throwing some spinach or kale in a bowl, topping it with some nuts and store-bought dressing, might make for an easy lunch, but it’s a formula that does grow stale with time….
Sun-dried Tomato and Sausage Polenta
Do you find that some foods just never get the attention or love they deserve? Do you have a personal favourite that you feel falls too far beneath the radar? For me, one of those foods is polenta. While polenta is a popular food with hundreds of years of history behind it, I can’t think…
Vegan Friendly Resorts & Hotels and Stays
While the pandemic is not likely to end anytime soon, it’s inevitably that as we drift into the summer vacation season, and case numbers drop, and vaccinations rates go up, we’ll start to think and dream of travelling again. I’ve been resistant to planning anything. Even speculating about when we might be able to return…
The Best Online Vegan Cooking Classes
Cooking and baking has become a passion for many over this last year of home confinement, while other veteran home chefs have developed a deeper appreciation for the simple comfort cooking provides. But inevitably you may hit a wall where your skills cap and you need a little extra help, a little extra guidance, to…
Quick and Easy Granola Bars
Granola Bars used to be one of my favourite after school snacks. The Quaker Oats Chewy Chocolate Chip were my favourite – don’t try and convince me of the merit of crunchy granola bars – and they continue to elicit a strong nostalgic response. They would be enjoyed with a tall glass of cold milk…
Sweet Potato Biscuits
The baking fever that marked the very first lockdown never really hit me like it did many others. It didn’t really hit me in the second wave either, which was probably for the best consider how difficult it was to get things like flour and yeast. Now in the third wave, I’ve finally succumbed to…
The Best New Vegan Restaurants in Toronto.
The pandemic has ripped through the restaurant industry not once but multiple times now, with each successive wave pummeling their well-being and ability to survive. These aren’t just businesses, they are the embodiment of people’s dreams, of their sweat, blood and tears. We often frame our memories with our experiences with food, and for owners,…
Baked Tofu and Yogurt Sauce
Yogurt sauce is a fairly common culinary component but it seems to have not gained as much traction with the vegan community, maybe because even some plant-based veterans are not that familiar with the variety of vegan yogurt options available. It is, after all, a somewhat recent innovation. Given that the yogurt we are most…
Plant and Pine 