The Minimalist Yogi

As a lot of you know based on my previous blog post when it comes to breakfast I tend to be the most boring person ever. When I find something I like I stick with it and try as much as possible not to change it. As a result of this mundane outlook my breakfast has been the same for the last two to threes years with little departure every now and then Given my love and strong obsession with oatmeal as a fuel to start the day I found a way to make it less dull and tasteless by adding my favorite fruits. This has resulted in the most amazing breakfast. I read somewhere that one way to make yourself wake up early was to have to plan an awesome breakfast that you could have the next morning. This allows you to have something to look forward to the next day but also acts a good motivation to get up either 5am or 6 am. This awesome breakfast has been my motivation for those days when I had work 6 am and I had to wake up by 5 am. This almond butter oatmeal is full of nutritious you ...

Continuing with the breakfast theme for this month, exploring different types of breakfast aside from plain old oatmeal. With the cold season hot grainy breakfast is the perfect morning meal.  So this week I am experimenting with millet seeds. This grainy seeds is more than just an interesting alternative to the more common grains, or bird food. Millet is a delicious grain that can accompany many types of food and bean excellent source for breakfast. On its own, millet is a little mundane and it's a little nutty, but easily takes on the flavor of whatever you decided to top it with. The topping can make a significant difference. The topping is full of sweetness to enhance the millet and you’re left with a sweet and hearty breakfast Ingredients:  ½ cup dry millet   1 cup of chia seeds   ½ cupof light brown sugar   2 tablespoon of cinnamon   ½ tablespoon of lemon juice   ½ tablespoon of fresh lemon zest   ½ cup of almond or s...

        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...

Salut tout le monde,  thé weekend is almost here and I am super excited!  Recently one of my co-worker went to London England, and she brought us English tea which I love so much. I had my last cup of English tea yesterday and I am disappointed that I don't have ay left. Regardless, I surely enjoyed my last cup of english tea. I am not sure if this says something about the British intellects, but the box gave direction on how to make a tea, which I think is sunny for two reasons, one because everyone knows how to make a tea, two its ironic because British are associated with tea it seems almost stupid to put the direction. Regardless, I enjoy my British English tea.  With my last English tea I had a delicious lentil salad with Spinach. This recipe is really simple, and its my go to recipe when I am tired or just not in the mood for cooking. Similar to the Barely salad, you can add just about anything. I prefer to keep it simple, but colourful.  Ingredien...

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...

  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...

Hey everyone, it's monday hope you're all having an awesome monday. I meant to cook yesterday and blog about my vegetarian and vegan cuisine but I was too busy and had work. So today I decided to cook something from this book called "Easy Vegan simple recipes for healthy eating" The cuisine that I made today is delicious and took me less than ten minutes to do. I came from Bridgehead ten minutes ago so I bought odwalla justice to go with my dinner.