The Minimalist Yogi

It’s Monday! But it’s okay. I don’t know about everyone, but I like Mondays; I know a lot of people hate it because that’s when work starts or its time to go back to school, and among others things. Monday should be renamed FUN DAY!!. Regardless of your opinion about Monday here are some things to start the week with, which I think will make your week or at least the transition from weekend to Monday smoothly. This video is probably one of my favourite music video right now, Sia is an amazing artist and this song and video personifies her amazing talent ability. Based on this song alone, O cannot wait for the album to come out.  This is a simple recipe that I think everyone and anyone can do; even a child. The best part about it is that it is completely vegan and it’s CHEAP!! Which is something I love. Also, it’s great for littler party or gathering; or especially on those days when you are not in the mood for making big lunch, or just lazy. It’s simple, ch...

       Wow, what can I say…the month just flew by like a bird freed from its cage. It is already mid January, and I am still wondering how did I make it this far without realizing it. Anyway, keeping with my New year's resolution of blogging as much as possible I finally bought by Josaph Shuldiner book, Pure Vegan: 70 recipes For Beautiful Meals and Clean Living to help me keep my promise. The book is pretty good, one thing I love about it is how simple, and easy the recipes are which is a BIG plus. I will attempt to try all 70 recipes. With that said, I have another yummy recipes to all vegan/vegetarian audiences. I recently came across this beautiful cooking blog, and I fell in love with both of them,  mynewroots ,  betacyanin  and sproutedkitchen  all site/blogs have easy delicious recipes, which brings me to today's recipe which is from Sproutedkitchen. This recipe is fairy easy, and worth trying. As always I try to make...

        As a vegetarian and almost vegan people always ask me where do you get your protein, and my answer is always tofu! My major source of protein is tofu becuase I just LOVE TOFu and there are many things you can make tofu out of, like pizza, burger, burrito and more. So to prove to those who hate tofu or don't understand how I can eat tofu almost everyday and not get sick of it, i've decided to cook classic dishes using tofu!!! Today I will be showing how a simple pizza can turned into a beautiful tofu recipe. Ingredients : -Pizza dough (prackaged uncooked pizza dough) -1 small tomato -1/2 red bell pepper - 1/2 firm tofu -3 green onion -2 carrots -1 cayenna and jalapeno pepper -Half tomato sauce -1/2 tbsp ground black pepper -1 tbsp cumin -1 tbsp ground ginger -1 tbsp ground tamarind -2 coriander -1 sea salt -2 tbsp olive oil -vegan cheese steps : 1. Chop all vegetables into desirable shapes. 2. In a large cooking pot, add 1 tbsp of olive o...

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 ...

        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...

                  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...

The Dreamers: Michael Pitt, Evea Green, and Louis Garrel Bonjour! Lately I've been embracing my love for classic movies, but above all classic French movies. Despite my little understanding of French I can read English, so subtitles are always helpful. I recently saw the movie "The Dreamers" which was interesting, all I can remember is nudity, cute French guy, WINE!!! classic movies and incest. Despite the weird incestuous relationship between Theo and Isabelle, the movie was pretty good. After watching the movie, I decided to embrace my addiction to classic movies and WINE! Yesterday I saw "Meet me in St. Louis" a classic movie which I saw three times already,  last "Une Femme Est Une Femme" with Anna Karine an amazing French actress. I haven't seen it yet, but will soon Une femme est une femme Louis Garrel as Theo

Hi everyone, hope you've all had a great week, and plan great adventures for the weekend. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of making one of my favourite recipe, despite the long process it was completely worth it, stuffed vegan shells. This recipe proves to everyone that vegans can eat anything that non-vegans can eat. I've never cooked pasta shells before and I must say, I can't wait to experiment more with it. As a guideline, I used two sites, 101cookbooks.com and allrecipes.com Sauce : 2 tbsp vegan margarine or olive oil 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flake 1tbsp sea salt  3 medium cloves of garlic, finely chopped 2 (14.5 ounce) can tomato sauce (roasted garlic and herbs) 3 tbsp red wine vinegar 1 tbsp chilli powder 1 tbsp curry powder 1 tbsp cumin 1 tbsp black pepper   Filling :  1 (16 ounce) package extra firm tofu, drained  1 tbsp vegan margarine or olive oil 1 tbsp red wine vinegar 1/2 tbsp chilli powder 1...