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Amazing Egyptian food!
On my quick layover through Cairo I decided to go on a foodie tour! The clear winner for me was Taameya! It's often confused with falafel and is an Egyptian breakfast staple. Made with minced fava beans, coriander, parsley, onions, and garlic.
Solo Double Date
I've been searching at least a year for doubles in Toronto at aren't dry or old. I finally found them. These are the real deal, fresh, soft, and tasty. Since I'm a spice wuss I got these with tamarind sauce instead of hot sauce. If you feel like venturing far east in city, go get them at the Danforth Roti House. At some point I'll try the vegan roti, but maybe not.
Best fall salad!
This is truly my favourite salad of all time. I could probably eat it everyday.
Roasted yam, wild rice, cashews, and arugula with a lemon garlic dressing.
Your stomach will thank you.
Food prep Sunday!
If I didn't cook for the week on Sundays, I'd be spending tons of cash on lunch and dinners during the week. So I dedicate my Sundays to cooking. Thank good I love to cook! Luckily I'm not the type of person that can't eat the same thing three times in a row. Eating without meat or dairy also really helps the food last longer in the fridge. If I'm ever away on the weekend, you can bet I'm eating like crap the whole next week.
This weeks lineup:
Roasted red pepper and tomato bisque, made with creamy coconut milk
Banana walnut oatmeal muffins, refined sugar and gluten free
Acorn squash alfredo
As usual everything is plant based, vegan, and refined sugar free.
Canadian Thankgiving
Although I don't celebrate thanksgiving, it is an opportunity to visit the family and eat. Eat a lot. I love being able to bring something to my heavily meat and processed food eating family that might be half healthy, that they might actually like!
This raw vegan banana cream pie is made with mostly nuts, figs, coconut milk, and bananas. It was a winner!
Sometimes it's hard to find vegan food in transit in new countries, but not in Santorini! Roasted corn at the bus station was a life saver, plus it even had a Greek flag as a souvenir!
This was the last thing I ate before me and my travel partners came down with an awful bug. So it's also one of the only things I actually ate in Santorini.
Freestyle Cooking
Is it just me or do most people use found recipes as guidelines and keep their measuring cups in the cupboards?
Usually things work out, but sometimes I get a little overzealous with ingredients.
This week I made a batch of hummus with my handy dandy Vitamix, and thought two huge cloves of garlic seemed reasonable. I was incorrect. I have been dragon breathing on people I meet all week. I guess it's a way to be memorable and to feel closer to Game of Thrones while I wait for the next season.
Vegan Big Macs
So, I recently got into a discussion online regarding plant based or vegan people eating things the resemble the animals they are refusing to eat. After that discussion, it happened again a few days later. So maybe I should put this out into the broader universe. Because there has got to be AT LEAST a thousand people reading this blog.
The reason I (as an almost 20 year vegetarian and more recent plant based person) sometimes eating things like veggie burgers, vegan shepherds pie, or even vegan 'meatballs', is because we were all raised in a place where we didn't cook for at least the first few years of life. So sometimes we all need to go back to those things from childhood. Just because we don't want to eat animals, doesn't mean we only want to eat kale or lentils all the time.
I do think that eating mock foods made out of processed ingredients, whether it be animals or not, is not very healthy. Even these comfort foods we crave can be made plant based, whole foods with a little creativity.
Yes, this glorious vegan Big Mac from Doomies was super unhealthy, but it was also a pretty amazing treat, since I hadn't had one in decades.
