Vegan Inspired Living
Aioli sauce, honey mustard sauce or sweet ginger chili sauce….any meal served with a dipping sauce (save for the fiery variety) tantalizes my taste buds😝. Since I have fritter fervor lately I thought I’d try my hand at making some white bean fritters served with a side of creamy mayo-based dipping sauce. This recipe [...]
I don’t know about you but I’ll usually pay the few extra dollars to ‘upgrade’ my side dish from regular fries to sweet potato/yam fries. There’s something about crispy sweet potatoes paired with a savoury cream sauce that I like to call 'spud bliss' ☺. This recipe for Loaded Sweet Potato Nachos proves you should never underestimate [...]
I won’t eat nut butter straight up (aka spread on toast) so I always dismissed it as a go-to ingredient but the more I experiment using nut butters in sauce-based dishes I’m convinced they need to be a staple in my vegan cooking arsenal 🙂. This recipe for Almond Butter Sauce with Crispy Tofu & [...]
For as long as I can remember – from grade school right up until my last project manager role – I’ve always been praised for my attention to detail. Being succinct, however, has never been my strong suit 😝. During my recent blogging ‘hiatus’ (thanks to a sinus/head cold) these past few weeks I took [...]
I’m happy to be back from my blogging hiatus. Unfortunately this was a hiatus of the ‘imposed’ variety. For the past three weeks Janik and I (and my daughter too) have been fighting a sinus infection/head cold that has limited my creativity in the kitchen. In fact, just the other night my daughter remarked “Really [...]
I’ve always been that mom who prepares a made-from-scratch cake or cupcakes for the kids’ birthdays. Let’s face it store-bought cakes can be pretty unreliable when it comes to taste and quality – especially when you feel like you’re having a nibble or two of cake after you cut through the ribbons of hyper-sweetened frosting [...]
Whenever people tell me “I could never give up bacon” I always choose to smile. Eating a plant-based diet doesn’t mean you need to give up or compromise on your favourite foods -- it simply demands some creativity in the kitchen. I don’t proclaim to have a plant-based recipe that mimics bacon in its entirety [...]
It’s not like I need another reason to love tofu…whether it’s marinated and pan-fried into crispy bacon-style strips or blended with nutritional yeast and fresh herbs into ricotta-style cheese tofu is a powerhouse ingredient in my books. That being said I never would have imagined that tofu would be my go-to substitute for eggs (of [...]
I have an obscure confession to make. I’ve never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich before. Better yet, I’ve never so much as purchased a jar of peanut butter for my own consumption. Ever 🤪! I was always a ham and cheese sandwich kind-of-kid growing up and preferred Bits & Bites over peanuts for snacking so [...]
