During this lockdown, with the days passing indiscriminately, without much distinction from one another, the most eventful and exciting moment of any week is when a grocery delivery arrives. I don’t know exactly why, but it’s reassuring – maybe because it provides some consistency and it’s something that is, to an extent, controllable. While many…
Tag: Vegetarian
Pasta Salad with Spinach and Sun-dried Tomato Pesto
One of the very first vegan recipes I really gravitated to, and started making regularly, was from a cookbook by master chef Robin Robertson. It was for a macaroni salad, simple enough for a neophyte plant-based chef, but really popping with flavour. I ate it for lunch, I ate it for dinner, I ate it…
Almond Butter Cookies
“Today me will live in the moment, unless it’s unpleasant, in which case me will eat a cookie” – The Cookie Monster Well, it’s been quite the week hasn’t it? Hopefully you’re all safely socially isolating, staying inside and finding some comfort and renewal in the small pleasures of home. For my own well-being, while…
Creamy Pumpkin Fettucine with “Meatballs” and Carmelized Leeks
There are definitely more and more signs of spring appearing in our cloudy, grey horizons, and we’ve even had a few days of warm weather, but we’re still a while away from the sweet, rejuvenating days of summer and I think, with all that’s going on in the world right now, we could all use…
Toronto’s Best Vegan Breakfast and Brunch
At one time, getting together with friends for a leisurely weekend brunch, as a vegan, meant you were probably going to be eating orange juice and possibly a salad for breakfast, but Toronto’s food scene is evolving rapidly and there’s now no shortage of plant based brunch and breakfast options in the city. Kupfert and…
Winter Apparel For Vegans
As a preface to this article, I’d like to formally state my deep and profound objection to winter, or at least Canadian winter (California winter, for example I’m generally okay with). Is it sacrilege for a Canadian to speak out against out against a season which we, as a nation, so often use to define…
A Guide to Paris, France
In the pantheon of great cities, none have arguably achieved a more legendary status than that of Paris. With its grand boulevards, towering monuments, endless historical facades, and the general joie de vivre that fills every city pore, it’s hard to imagine there’s a more impressive and vibrant urban center anywhere else in the world….
Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish
I’ve had an unusual craving for Danishes lately. I’m not sure what ignited it, but I’m okay with caving to this particular hankering, especially as I don’t think, prior to coming up with this recipe, I’ve had a Danish since my pre-vegan days. Until recently, plant-based versions of this sweet, layered delight were rarely spotted…
A Guide To Toronto’s Independent Grocery Stores
With the unhealthy ambiance that’s circulating the political sphere these days, and democracy failing us in new and spectacular ways, and leadership that either can’t seem to make much progress, or willfully erodes it, I’ve been thinking of more ways that I can, as an individual, produce positive change in the world, from reducing waste…
Tempeh & Beet Hummus on Sourdough Toast
Hummus is one of the superheroes in my vegan life – it’s always there in a pinch, providing sustenance, simplicity, and flavour when and where it’s most needed. Like a lot of great food, it originates in the Middle-East (Levant) and has been a staple there for centuries. An interesting aside, in a region that…
Plant and Pine 