The Minimalist Yogi

So, I am officially done second year, and I have to admit it was a hard year, the course load, and attempting to keep a difficult job. Regardless it was completely worth it, now I can pay attention to cooking, trying new recipes, reading for fun and not for a book report, and do a lot of yoga. I am not going to make any promise of blogging everyday because you've probably notice that I am not good with keeping my promises so, instead I am going to try to blog as much as possible, and keep you guys updated as much as possible. The next coming days are going to be great because I am attending this Eco-expo and writing festivals that I cannot wait to blog about. But till day, I am going to share with you guys some recipes that I've tried, and hopefully in the coming days give you guys an sight into African food. I was recently looking at a photo on Pinterest , and came across this really good-looking pasta that I was drooling over. Unfortunately I was not able to...

Happy new year, and I hope all of your wishes and dreams do come true this year. So,  I had little to no time to blog at all during the first semester, but I truly hope this semester will be different. If you are a vegan, or vegetarian you probably know about the amazing food magazine call Vegetarian Magazine. This magazine has great recipes, for vegan, vegetarian, or even meat eaters. So, this week I had the chance of trying one of their recipes, however like always I like to make it my own. This is my firs time making carrot soup, and i have to say it turned out pretty good, but the only downside i putt way too much garlic, and I cannot handle the taste of garlic that seems to linger. Also, the difference between the my recipe and Vegetarian times, I used almond instead of almond for the pesto. Also, the pesto is my own home made recipe. Furthermore, in my recipe as always I cannot stand any food that lack seasoning and spices, so I ensured that I used favourable spices.  ...

I think we all love pasta, and pasta is one of those ingredients that you can make with anything, pasta with sauce, vegetables, meat, fish or whatever you desire. I decided to experiment with onion pasta which came out to be probably one of my favourite recipes. The whole thing is really simple and takes less than 45 minutes to do. Ingredients -Pasta (packed) -3 tomato (chopped-seedless) leave in cold water for 5 minutes -2 large white onions (chopped in ring shapes) -2 tbsp cumin -2 tbsp curry -2 tbsp black pepper -4 tbsp olive oil -1 tbsp sea salt -1 tbsp ginger (grounded) -2 tbsp coriander -2 tbsp mexican chilli powder -4 garlic (chopped) -Red wine vinegar Steps: 1. Cook pasta according to package. Once done,  resins and let it cool off. 2. In a large cooking pot, add olive oil let it heat, add onions spice with cumin, ginger, mexican chilli powder, salt, curry, coriander and black pepper. Stir regularly, sauté onion till golden brown. make sure its soft and ...