Making the switch to a vegetarian lifestyle isn’t always easy, especially if your entire family is all about huge turkey dinners. I discovered this first hand when I gave up eating meat. Initially the decision had to do with my health, I wanted to feel better about my body and the food I was … [Read more...]
Taleen’s Mom’s Salad
Before you read any further, you should know that the recipe below is not the one I was intending to write tonight. I was intending to provide you with the yummiest, most decadent recipe for apple butter. I was intending to come home, peel and chop some apples and slowly simmer them as the warm, … [Read more...]
One “Sweet” Noodle Pudding
So yesterday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. For most people, this entails fasting for 24 hours in order to reflect on the year behind us and the year that lies ahead. At sundown, we gather with family to break-fast. In my family, this means that each year, a different cousin steps up … [Read more...]
The 29th Annual Vegetarian Food Festival
Hey Torontonians! Put the steak down and listen up: The 29th annual Vegetarian Food Festival is back in town. No, that is not a typo. It's the 29th year. I know... I'm as shocked as you are. I guess I never took notice of it before because prior to this summer, I was a dedicated … [Read more...]
The Best Six Bucks I Ever Spent… and Pineapple Fried Rice
A few months ago, I went to the Baking and Sweets show and spotted this odd-looking contraption: A pineapple slicer/corer. For six bucks. Would it work? For six bucks, I was willing to give it a try. It worked. Awesomely. Like, life-changely good. No longer would I be subjected to choosing … [Read more...]
Good Will Hunting
I have written before about my conflicted thoughts on eating animals. I feel ethically torn because if I look at nature, the cold facts are that animals eat other animals. Cheetahs stalk antelope, sharks chomp on surfers, and spiders wrap flies in a web of death before swallowing them whole. No big … [Read more...]
The Kind (Of) Diet
Last week I randomly picked up Alicia Silverstone's book "The Kind Diet" at our library, thinking it might have some good vegetarian recipes I could try out. I was pleasantly surprised by her writing skills (admittedly, I can still only imagine her as a real-life version of the character she played … [Read more...]
Very, Very Veggie
My little sister is a vegetarian. A full-on, doesn't eat any meat, doesn't eat any foods made with meat or meat products vegetarian. Once, six years ago, I was a vegetarian, too. For six months. Really! For six months I didn't eat any meat or anything related to meat. Well, okay, I did eat cheese … [Read more...]