The Minimalist Yogi

Before we get to what I am up to this weekend let me start by saying that I’ve finally found a job! coffee barista at Bridgehead Coffee House. I am so happy not because I’ve finally found a job, but also because I hang out a lot in Bridgehead, and enjoy their serve, atmosphere and what it stands for so the idea of working there is not the worst thing that could ever happen to me. But also if you know, you know that I have this crazy obsession and addiction to café or coffee houses. I can’t wait to start my first shift and have my life back to normalcy; with that being said I will keep you guys updated on everything e.g., how my shift went etc… So lets talk about what I am up to weekend, I’ve decided to take a personal day off today so all I have been doing today is things that I’ve been meaning to do such as Reading, having some meditation time, laundry, enjoying the sun and doing yoga. It has been a very successful day of body and mind cleansing. I am planning on continuing ...

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.  ...

                        Its day 4 and I am still alive and thriving on my tofu. Today we are taking a classic meat eaters'  favourite and making into a vegan/ vegetarian friendly. On course continuing on the tofu marathon, the key ingredient in this recipe is TOFU!!!! so lets get cooking!!! Ingredient : -1 Firm tofu -1 red bell pepper -1 Eggplant -1 red tomato -Romanian Lettuce -2 tbsp sesame seeds -3 tbsp toasted sesame vinegar -2 tbsp cumin -1 tbsp salt -1 tbsp mexican chill powder -white panini -Olive oil Steps : 1. Slice firm tofu into square shape or a desirable. In a small bowl spice the tofu with cumin, salt, mexican chilli powder, sesame seeds and toasted sesame vinegar. Mix well with the sesame vinegar, let it blend with the flavours for five minutes. 2. Then reheat a skillet with a little of olive oil, then fry or sauté the tofu till golden brown. Then let it cool down. 3. Slice eggplant a...

        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 ...

                                       So lately I have this new obsession with street food, and if you read my last post you will know why. To continue on my path of street food, i've decided to come up with this awesome new recipe. I think we all love french fires, or poutine, so to make my own version of poutine, I've decided to make french fries into Onion fries which makes it sound fancy and also less fatty. Ingredients : -2 green onion (chopped)  -half white onion (chopped) -Packaged McCain fries -1 tomato (chopped)  -Romaine lettuce -2 tbsp red wine vinegar  -1 tbsp salt  -1 tbsp ground pepper  -2 tbsp olive oil Steps :  -In a skillet or pot add two table spoon of olive oil, and add onions, and salt. Let it saute or cook till golden brown.  -Add fries mix with the onion stir for a minute and every now and then. Let...

                    So my passsion for food is growing almost everyday, and its further reinforced by this awesome show on the Food Network call Eat street, it broadcasts street food across north American. Recently they went to London England, and came across this amazing guy who cooks Indian food on the street, "Everybody LoveLove Jhal Muri Express" one of his top seller is Jhal Muri a fusion of indian spices with lentil and others. So I decided to do my own version of Jhal Muri, instead of calling it Jhal Muri its call, 'Indian Express"Here is the link for the orginal recipe of Jhal Muri,  streetfoodkolkata.com Indian Express: Ingredient -1/ 4 cup of French lentills (washed and resined) or can -Chick pea (can) -1/4 cup of wild rice -1 cucumber (chopped) -1 tomato (chopped) -3 green onion -1 cayenna and jalapeno pepper (chopped) -2 tbsp grounded ginger -2 tbsp fresh lime juice -1 tbsp mustard seeds -2 tbsp gro...

Hi everyone, hope everyone is having an amazing week. I am going to start by apologizing for not blogging for while, I've been really busy with work and more work. Regardless, I am back and have something great things to share with you guys. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of trying a new recipe which one of my co-worker called Caribbean Explosion because of the colours and the hot spices. This recipe is really simple, and takes less than hour to do.  This recipe is simple yet amazing, the taste is all in the spices. I think this recipe depicts how easy it is to take something as simple and plain as rice and vegetables and turn into something  great.  P.S. Sorry about the pictures, I took the picture with my Ipod so I doesn't have the best quality.  Ingredients: -1 sweet corn -Yellow, Green, and Red bell pepper  (diced) -2 cups of wild rice and white rice -1 Tomato (Diced) -Carrot -Pepper (cayenne, jalapeño and chili pepper) Diced -3 Green onio...

               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  

                               I must say among all the things out there to eat, pizza will forever and always top my list. Making pizza is extremely simple, and the awesome part of it, is the topping, you can top pizza with just about anything and it will taste amazing! However,  you can top it with anything, but there's nothing like a classic cheese, pepperoni or vegetarian pizza. So I recently got Pinterest, and while filling my pin board I've notice all the beautiful images of pizzas and was just blown away and little jealous because I wanted to eat all it and wished I was the one who cooked them. Regardless, I enjoyed looking at them and got little inspired to make my own home made vegan pizza, which I will conquer in the coming days. For more beautiful photos of food, visit my interest pinterest.com/namastetoahimsa/  

                  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...

Happy Canada day!!!  hola everyone, hope you are all enjoying your summer and this beautiful weather. Sorry I haven't blogged since forever. I've been really busty and stressed out by this new job, but now that I am hired I am going to be committed to blogging just about everyday. Lets talk about Cooking!!!! among the easies thing you can ever cook I have to say quinoa is on my top list. Its really easy, simple and effort able. The beauty part of it is the fact that you can add just about anything with quinoa, also it can either be a side dish or the main course. Lets cook! ingredients :  -1 cups of quinoa (red and white) -cherry tomato  -1 green bell pepper (diced) -1 Mango (diced)  -3 green onion  -1 tbsp curry powder  -1tbsp salt  -1tbsp cumin  -1 tbsp chili powder  -2  potatoes(Norland red and Yukon Gold) chopped and diced Steps :  1. Pre-heat oven 135,  Cover oven pan with foil, oil it with ol...

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...

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...