The Minimalist Yogi

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...

Hiya everyone, happy weekend! unlike everyone, my plan for the weekend is to cook, I came across this great recipe for lentil and cannot wait to try it, i'll keep you guys posted.  With that done, lets talk about FOOD! so a lot of you may not know this, but I had the pleasure of living in Egypt when I was little. The one thing that I always do to remember the great time I had there is by cooking Egyptian foods. Among these great food is falafel and fava beans sandwitch. Every time I have the opportunity to whip this quick recipe I take the chance.  The option is to whether make your own falafel or buy some. I usually tend to go toward buying ones that already made instead of making one at home because its a family tradition at our house to order out every thursday of the month once or twice.  This is something to do if you are lazy and don't feel like cooking.  Ingredients :  -Falafel (store bought)  -fava beans (can) -Peta bread -2 tbsp of curr...

  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.  ...