One of the things I love about vegan food is that you combine side dishes and you get a meal. I guess the same applies for omni food too, but most omnis would miss the animal protein, where as I love that I can have mashed potatoes and gravy, salad and brussel sprouts with onions and spinach and be able to call it a complete meal. I do generally try to add something more protein heavy to my meals, like beans or tofu or seitan etc, but sometimes I just can't be bothered. And let's face it, I did have both cashews and avocado in this meal, so there are some protein heavy foods.

This was dinner today. A side salad and whole wheat pasta with cherry tomatoes and pesto, oh and nutritional yeast. I happened to hear about this whole wheat pasta on tv the other day and decided to try it. Very good, and definately more healthy. The salad is just baby romaine and baby spinach topped with Drenas sesame lemon vinagrette in EDV. I liked the vinagrette, it would be awesome with cold buckwheat noodles and some veggies.



A girl's gotta have her dessert. These are from Vegan with a Vengance. I halved the recipe, because to many cookies are not good for the size of my butt... They do taste good though.

Two days a week I have yoga class, so I try to eat fairly early to avoid a full stomach in class. This is a dish I made this week before class. I liked it because it has a lot of fresh veggies, quinoa which is a whole grain and tofu. I like making stuff like this with lots of different healthy ingredients that is quick and tastes nice. I usually just see what I have left in my fridge and throw it all together because I hate throwing out food.


One of the problems with fall is that I often come down with a cold that just won't disapear so I like to use a lot of fresh ginger and garlic. This dish I made to bring to work so that I would have a decent dinner there. It's rice, ginger, garlic, miso (another wonderful cold-busting ingredient), soy sauce, spinach and tofu. I had silken tofu in my fridge that needed to be used. I was hoping that the tofu wouldn't disintegrate too much, but that didn't work. Instead of tofu chunks I ended up with a risotto looking rice. It tasted delicious though, so I didn't mind that it didn't turn out the way I had planned.


A quick healthy dinner that tasted very good. I needed something substantial yesterday as I was going to several parties and would be drinking alcohol. This was perfect. I really love potato wedges that have been roasted like these. It's a good variation and you just pop the potatoes in the oven and don't have to worry about them anymore.

I decided to make som real wholesome food yesterday so I got out Vive and made the Rosemary tofu balls and served them over pasta. I didn't use the vinegrette because I forgot and was starving so I just ate them. Wow! They were really good. The texture wasn't very meaty or firm, but they tasted delicious.

Making the "dough" for the tofu balls.

Finished tofuballs ready for marinara

Finished dish with pasta, sauce and tofuballs

I also made the choc chip cookies from Vegan with a vengance. I didn't take a picture though because I messed them up. I forgot that I didn't have any baking soda left, so I used a little baking powder (knowing it wouldn't really work) and they were super flat... but still very good.

I'm finally back. It's been a crazy summer with lots of working, traveling and cooking too, just not very much blogging. I've been working at my university, doing research for one of the prof's there. It pays a fair amount and it's great experience, which is good as I have to have 12 weeks work experience to get my masters. I'm pretty sure I have enough now to fulfil the requirements so that's nice.

I also spent some time traveling. I went to Sweden for a short trip to Gothenburg. I was supposed to see the Stones, but as Keith Richard had an incident with a palm tree (what's up with that? The guy is almost 70...) the consert was cancelled. I went anyway as everything was already booked. It was a nice trip. I also went to western Norway for some hiking. I went to Pulpit Rock (Preikestolen) a very famous norwegian tourist attraction. I've never actually been there before, but as my mother was taking the trip with a french girl staying there this summer I decided to come too. We took some amazing pictures, and the hike wasn't bad at all. Well worth doing. Here are some pictures

In the picture above you can actualy see me and my mother standing in the middle of the rock. I'm on the left.

We also hiked Kjerag, which was a lot harder than Pulpit Rock, still fun though. Kjerag is not to far from Pulpit Rock. It's in the inner most part of the fjord. We went to Kjerag first then took the ferry through the fjord (a beautiful trip) to Pulpit Rock.

Here are some pictures of Kjerag

I do have a food pic today too. The first one that I've taken with my new Nikon D50 camera. I am very excited about it and it does take beautiful pictures.


This is todays dinner. I wasn't feeling very creative, and as I made a ton of rice salad yesterday from HIAV by Sarah Kramer (I love bringing it to school as lunch) I decided to have that along with some tofu (inspired by Dreena Burtons recipe on pg 158 in everyday vegan, I can't remeber the name of the recipe). On the side I have a salad with homemade crutons, baby spinach, romaine and pinenuts topped with Dreenas creamy ceasar salad dressing, also EDV. It was very yummy and fast as both the rice salad and the ceasar dressing were already made.