The Minimalist Yogi

        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 ...

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...

S alut tout le monde,  Another week and weekend as come and gone. Hope you've all had an incroyable weekend, to those who's weekend is about to start, have fun and be adventurous. Over the weekend I didn't have the chance of doing a lot of things, but I manage to fit some time for wine, I had the chance of going to one of my favourite restaurant, Blue Cactus the one place that servers the best nacho in Ottawa. I remember ordering small plate, but when the plate arrived I thought it was large. Also I had the chance of having two glass of pinot noir red wine.  Despite the less adventurous week, I manage to cook something really good that's vegan, vegetarian and eat eaters friendly. Pea and lentil soup, this was suppose to be a soup but it turned into dip, I could've added more vegetable broth, but I decided to go with the dip feeling, and it still taste and looks incroyable . Weekend adventure-Pinot Noir Ingredients :  1-2 cups green lentil (washed and res...

Hiya beautiful people, hope you've all had an amazing week full of adventures and great memories!!!  If you recall from my last post, I said I was spending the weekend trying different recipes which is what I did, and I must say I am very PROUD of the end results. I Manage to do two dishes, a main course and a side dish. Today I am going to blog about the side dish, Barley salad with spicy sauce. This recipe is amazingly simple, and has the potential of improvement and changes.  Ingredients  -2-3 cups of Barley  -2 Green onion -1 Cherry tomato  -1 or 1/2 Cucumber  -1 Yellow Bell pepper -1 1/2 tbsp of black pepper  -1 tbsp of chilli pepper (grounded)  -1 tbsp of red pepper flacks  -1/2 tbsp of sea salt  -2 tbsp of vinegar -1 tbsp of olive oil  Steps  1. Wash and resein barley. While a water is boiling add salt, and Barley, let it cook for 20-30 minutes. Remember Barley is similar to rice, so don't be h...

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...

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.

In one week I'll be writing my first semester exam, and being the only vegetarian in our house mans cooking for myself every week, because I usually cook a small amount that last only two to three days. So this week I've decided to cook my favourite recipe that I love cooking, but this time I've decided to add some new ingredients. I have to say I am very proud of myself because it came out REALLY good and delicious. Ingredients -Broccoli -Carrots -red/yellow/and green bell pepper -firm soft tofu -red/green apple -dired cranberries -margarine(Vegan) -2 tablespoon light olive oil -1 onion, chopped -1 tablespoon of finely grated fresh ginger -1 1/2 table spoon of ground coriander -4 table spoon of red mexican chill powder -1 1/2 tablespoon of turmeric -2 tablespoon of pure white vinegar -1 tablespoon of cinnamon -Red organic tomato sauce ( Can) -salt -2 tablespoon of hot sauce -Brown rice or any kind of rice Direction: Slice the apple, carrot, and red, green, yellow bell pep...