The Minimalist Yogi

Hiya beautiful people, hope you've all had an amazing week full of adventures and great memories!!!  If you recall from my last post, I said I was spending the weekend trying different recipes which is what I did, and I must say I am very PROUD of the end results. I Manage to do two dishes, a main course and a side dish. Today I am going to blog about the side dish, Barley salad with spicy sauce. This recipe is amazingly simple, and has the potential of improvement and changes.  Ingredients  -2-3 cups of Barley  -2 Green onion -1 Cherry tomato  -1 or 1/2 Cucumber  -1 Yellow Bell pepper -1 1/2 tbsp of black pepper  -1 tbsp of chilli pepper (grounded)  -1 tbsp of red pepper flacks  -1/2 tbsp of sea salt  -2 tbsp of vinegar -1 tbsp of olive oil  Steps  1. Wash and resein barley. While a water is boiling add salt, and Barley, let it cook for 20-30 minutes. Remember Barley is similar to rice, so don't be h...

  Hello gals and gents, hope you're all having an amazing start to the week. As a vegetarian people always ask me where I get my proteins and I always say tofu because I love Tofu, but there are other sources of proteins as well such as beans. So Today i took the day off to make a yummy black beans stew. Its really simple and took me less than a 30 minutes to cook. The key to this yummy recipes is the spices. All the products for this stew was bought at Herb and Spice Shop on Bank Street. Ingredients : -Black Beans (caned) and pink beans -2-3 tbs of oil (vegetable, corn or olive) -1 small onion, diced -3 jalapeño pepper (diced) -6 red Cayenne pepper -Green onion (chop) -Parsley leaf -2 tbsp of curry powder -2 tbsp of Cayenne ground pepper -2 tbsp of chill Mexican powder -2 tbsp of cumin powder -2 tbsp of black pepper -1 tbsp of salt -2 tbsp of white vinegar  Direction:   -Drain and resine beans. Cook for about 5 minutes. Drain and resin again.  ...

Hi everyone, so continuing on my vegan recipes this is among my favor dish to make. Its very simple and doesn't cost much. Overall I spent about $20 which is pretty good because people think being a vegan is expansive, which can be sometimes. All the ingredients  can be  bought at your grocer store. If you live in Ottawa Canada, the Herb and Spice store is perfect because you get a discount if you are a student like myself, but mostly importantly all of their products are organic.  All the products used are organic.  -Green, yellow, and red bell pepper  -Tofu (firm) -Eggplant  -Apple (red ideally) -Curry Powder -Cumin Powder -Mexican chili powder -Salt -Olive oil   Direction:  To start cut the tofu and apple into little dices. Slice bell peppers and eggplant into any shapes you'd like.  Spice the tofu, apple, peppers and eggplant.  Heat olive oil in a skillet and shallow fry the eggplant until deeply go...

Namasta, I haven't uploaded or written anything for months, but the wait is completely worth it. Over the courses of the months, I've been trying new recipes and most of them turned out pretty good, the amazing thing most of them cost me less then $5 dollars. The first recipes is mix of rices and lentil. The Following rices, -White -Brown -Black -Basmati -red -Lentil Direction: Cook all the different types of rice together, in a largepot of well salted water. Cook the rice the way you prefer to cook it. Then cook the lentil in another pot of well salted water, for about 8 minutes. Mix the rice and lentil and add spices togive it flavour. The Second recipe Macaroni Salada, from 101 cookbook, here's the link, http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/macaroni-salad-recipe.html. http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/macaroni-salad-recipe.html As always I did my own version of the recipe. The next recipe is the version of this recipe from 101 cookbook, here's the link for the r...