Comfort food at its best. When life calls for noodles, this is the recipe you need! This makes a huge serving for one, plenty for two or nibbles for three. ♥ Awesome Vegan Chow Mein with Veges & Tofu Ingredients: 3 tbsp rice bran oil (or canola, sunflower etc) 1/2 brown onion, sliced 1 clove…
Category: wholefoods 101
Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now (#2 – VEGETABLE FIASCO)
This is the second installment in my Learning Curves series. Check out the first post here: ♥ Learning Curve #1: Zero Preparation Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now (#2 – VEGETABLE FIASCO) For years I had the crazy notion that vegetable-heavy dishes needed dairy in them or…
Decadent Chocolate Creme (Or: A Surprisingly Delicious Way to Eat Avocados)
Avocado as dessert? Uhh… what?! That was my initial reaction when I learned of the whole foods trick of giving chocolate sweet treats an avocado base; no way was that culinary train wreck going to taste fantastic. A couple of months went by, and I moved into might-be-crazy-enough-to-work territory. And if there is one…
Revolutionary Vegan Stir Fry with Udon Noodles (+ Amazing New Stir Fry Sauce!)
Stir fry tiiiime. A friend who stayed with us recently called this the best stir fry he’s ever had. Victory! Maybe he was just being super polite, but I dare say that this is, by leaps and bounds, the best stir fry recipe I have rustled up so far. Try it and let me…
Vegan Kitchen Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now (#1 – PREPARATION)
Vegan Kitchen Learning Curves: What I Did Wrong and What I Do Now #1: ZERO PREPARATION Lack of preparation: the killer of so many good intentions. Anyone who has taken the time to read about the reality of plant based eating, knows that it is easier than most people imagine to get all…
Balsamic Brown Rice Salad
Siouxsie Sioux for Dazed and Confused (1999) via Cats with Famous People Earlier this week I was lucky enough to spend three days hanging out with some of my favourite people at an awesome little bach in the sunshine and slow pace of the Queen Charlotte Sounds. It was so rejuvenating; a stunning part…
Scrambled Tofu
Image © Kitchen Rebellion Whether you need breakfast, brunch or lunch, this tasty, quick to prepare, tofu scramble has got you covered! It is an especially great option when you want something jam-packed with protein. One serving and you have 40% of your RDI locked down. BOOM. Scrambled tofu is a vegan staple that…
Wholegrains 101: The Rice Smackdown
Diva by Christiane Vleugels Before I started my vegan foods adventure, I was super ignorant about the jaw-dropping diversity that exists in the plant-based food world. And I say this as someone who switched to a vegetarian diet at age sixteen, thirteen lucky years ago, and dabbled a tiny bit in vegan eating every…
Health by Stealth Caulifredo Sauce
Art by Nicoletta Ceccoli When I came across the idea of cauliflower sauce, I was a little skeptical, but also intrigued. Intrigued enough that I had to try it. Like so many things that turn out to be awesome, it was just crazy enough to work. The result? Well, the post-blending taste test literally…
Tuscan Tomato & Cannellini Beans
Art by Alex Gray, via This Isn’t Happiness | For better or worse, Alex Gray‘s art will forever in my mind be associated with Tool. Ah, the Tool days… This recipe is one to file away in the “Delicious Bean Thing” section of your brain/kitchen: creamy, garlicky cannellini beans in a rich tomato herb…
Chilled Out Chilli-Lime Tofu & Lemon-Garlic Green Beans
Image via Scotch & Jazz at Dusk @ Tumblr. Mix and match is where it’s at. Use these two tasty recipes as the base of a meal or whip ’em up separately to add some protein-y goodness or green-hued superpowers to your food fix. The Chilli-Lime Tofu is tangy, moreish and so full of…
Asparagus, Snow Pea & Green Bean Three-Way
Image via Cute Boys With Cats (I love you, internet) This is a quick and easy way to get more soul-firing greens into your life. A trio of green goodness, made moreish with a simple combination of garlic, lemon and soy sauce, with the subtle flavour of peanut oil bringing it all together. Peanut…
