Category: herbivore

  • Bamboo shoot salad

    Bamboo shoot salad

    Temperature in the city has sky changed from rainy stormy to hot and humid seemingly overnight. While doing our obligate weekly Chinatown grocery run, we picked up some bamboo shoot, a perfect base a for a refreshing summer salad.

  • Pico de gallo

    Pico de gallo

    Coming back from Inca Trails – 4 days no shower, gastro, and creating a bacterial bath that used to be a clothes. What can I say, I’m a bona fide city person and the artisanal toilets gets intolerable even with my spending my childhood in china with squat toilets. Anyways, the delicious pico de gallo…

  • Pickled brussel sprouts

    Pickled brussel sprouts

    Thought i would try something different with these beautiful winter brussel sprouts. Pickling is easy, quick and the result is delicious.

  • Lotus root salad

    Lotus root salad

    The weather was unusually warm this long weekend in Toronto. So instead of the routine roasted winter veggies I make in large batches, I thought I’d make something refreshing for a change.

  • Cumin sweet potato chips

    Cumin sweet potato chips

    This can’t be called a recipe. It’s too easy. After returning from Hawaii, I’m putting myself on a whole plant based only detox for the remainder of my vacation to counteract the health effects of massive amount of poke, ribs and chocolate.

  • Duck fat roasted brussel sprouts with oyster sauce

    Duck fat roasted brussel sprouts with oyster sauce

    Brussel sprouts is the perfect winter vegetable. On a weekend home call day, I took the liberty of using up some rendered duck fat for the delicious and hearty meal.

  • Power lunch salad

    Power lunch salad

    I’ve been eating this every single day for work- healthy, easy, gluten free, and delicious.

  • Miso garlic asparagus salad

    Miso garlic asparagus salad

    Spring time for spring veggies. Picked up these beauties on sale on my weekly (more like daily) Chinatown groceries run.

  • Cumin carrot salad

    Cumin carrot salad

    I haven’t posted anything for a month. Life has been rough. 1/4 calls for 2 months straight coming up, will aim to make something once a week.

  • Miso caramel popcorn

    Miso caramel popcorn

    I’ve been in a rut… my diet has consisted of avocado banana smoothie for breakfast, tofu salad for lunch and popcorn…lots of popcorn for dinner and weekend meals…every-single-day (with the exception of going out to all the new foodie places to eat of course). So I might as well embrace my popcorn rut and share…