The Minimalist Yogi

I’ve recently had a conversation with a friend, which then turned into a conversation about breakfast, I don't know how, but   reflecting on the conversation later I realize how dull my daily breakfast is. When I find something I like I tend to stick with it, hence my breakfasts have been very simple and I’ve been having the same things for the last years without ever changing it. The usual breakfasts are, yogurt with different topping such as, granola, fruits, and chia seeds sided with a green smoothie, and tea or lemon or water. My other go to breakfast is simple oatmeal; I can eat oatmeal for the rest of my life and be completely content. But then again I am creature of habit, I have strict routine that I follow and have difficulty with challenging them. Following my conversation with my friend I thought perhaps I should change things up a little and try something new. So today I’ve decided to make my favourite breakfast, which I haven’t had in years now, French toast. As ...

        Hi everyone, hope everybody is having a great start to the week. Lets talk about food, so a lot of people or some  enjoy the idea of "take out," which I enjoy as well every one and then, specially on those days when you don't feel like cooking or doing anything. But take out like eating out cost a lot of money. So to enjoy the pleasure of having a take out, I decided to buy the container that's generally given in restaurants for take out and made my own home take out. As you read the list of the ingredients you'll notice that I've used the same ingredients as the ones for the "caribbean explosion" the reason being because I do "mass cooking" meaning I cook two or three things at the same time, which saves me time and money. Ingredients -2-3 cups of pasta -2 carrot (chopped and diced) -Red, yellow and green bell pepper -Half sween corn -Half tomato -1 Leek (chopped and diced) -1 of each of   cayenne, jalapeño ...

               So three days ago I finally got pinterest, and while pinning my board I came across beautiful pictures of pizzas which I talked about on my second last blog. I was so inspired by those photos so I decided to make my first home made pizza. I must say the pizza was REALLY GOOD!!!!.  Ingredients   3 cups flour  1 tbs fast rising yeast  1 tbsp salt  1 cup water, warm  1 tbsp sesame oil Topping Ingredients  1 red bell pepper (chopped or sliced)  1 flat mushroom (sliced or sliced)  1 green onion (chopped)  Firm tofu (chopped)  1 tomato (chopped)  1 (10.5 ounce)Packaged vegan mozzarella style shred, and pepperjack style shreds. (Diaya) 1 jalapeño pepper (diced) 3 red Cayenne pepper 1 tbsp ground black pepper  3 tbsp curry powder  Steps   1. Preheat oven to 365  2. In a large bowl, combine flour, yeast, and salt. Add w...

                    So this month my co-workers and I decided to go vegetariam or vegan, since I am a vegetarian my only choose was going vegan. So far I really like it because nothing has really changed about my diet because I don't eat eggs, last time I had eggs was 3-4 years ago, and I tend to drink  soy milk with my coffee, and don't eat a lot of sweet things. So, today I was having my nigh snacks, soy yogurt and green macaron tea. Since I was in the mood for something sweet  I put a little spoon of honey in my yogurt and tea. While enjoying my tea i decided o google whether honey was vegan, and found out that IT IS NOT VEGAN. After reading view articles the underlining issue seems to be the cruelty and  abuse, here's a little sample of the article,  recipes.howstuffworks.com  

                  Bonjour everyone, so if you are living in CAnada you are probably enjoying your day off. After canada day yesterday I think we deserve that day off, all the drinking and partying, a day to relax won't hurt. With everyday store being closed today, I had no choose but to improve for lunch. Thanks my  mother's love for beans, i manage to find a can of fava beans, and some vegetables to whip a bean burrito.  Ingredients:  1 can fava beans, resined and drained   1 red and yellow bell pepper, sliced  1 yellow onion, sliced  1 flat mushroom, thinly sliced  1 white or whole-wheat pita bread  1 tbsp garlic sauce spread 1 tbsp hot sauce  3 tbsp sesame oil  2 tbsp curry  1 tbsp ground black pepper  1 tbsp salt  steps : 1. Spice the bell pepper, yellow onion and mushroom with curry powder, black pepper, and hot sauce. Using a non-sticky skillet or fr...

Add caption Hola, everyone, the weekend as finally come.To be honest I personally think the week went too fast, regardless I am please that the weekend is here. I meant to blog yesterday, but I had a little incident that left me shaken and just wanted to hide in my room.  Enough about my life, lets talk about FOOD!!!, as always I am trying different recipes just about everyday, and over the week I decided to make my own recipe. The key ingredients in this recipe is Tofu and Potatoes, I love tofu if I could live only on tofu I'd probably be able to do it.  Ingredients   4 potatoes (two of each kind, Norland red and Yukon Gold) chopped and diced packaged Firm tofu  1 Green bell pepper  2 green onion  3 tbsp red wine vinegar  1 tbsp sea salt  2 tbsp chili powder  3 tbsp  red pepper flakes  3 tbsp black pepper  olive oil  3 tbsp chili powder  4 chili pepper  2 Jalapeño pepper Steps 1. Pre...

Hola, hope everyone is having a great start to the week. So today started pretty bad, but ended with a bright rainbow. First my alarm clock decided not to go off, of all the days, when I have an interview, to top the morning it was raining outside. However despite rocky start, lunch was amazing. I had spinach and tofu filled samosa, sided with Vegan lemon bar which I must say is AMAZING!!!. Its my first time trying it and I must say I LOVE IT!!!!! I think this will be my next recipe to try, I am not big on baking despite working in a bakery department because of my previous experience with baking. But, I am willing to take the challenge and try it. To end the end, when after finishing work, I came out to a BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW! I am not sure when I'll try baking the Vegan Lemon bars so, in the main time, if you guys want try the recipe here's a link,  Savvy Vegetarian  or you go visit your local Herb & Spice Shop to buy