When you eat tofu out at a restaurant, it’s borderline perfection – chewy and dense on the inside, surrounded by a golden halo of crispy crust, bursting with flavour. How could anyone hate on this fantastic, delicious food? Then you try to recreate that dish at home…
Continue readingIn addition to tofu’s impressive protein and nutrient content, it’s also an incredibly versatile ingredient. In this article, I’m going to show you several ways that you can prepare your tofu along with different dishes to pair those methods with.
Continue readingTextured Vegetable Protein, or TVP, is something of a wonder food. The perfect combination of incredibly versatile, inexpensive, and an A+ nutritional profile. Made from dried, de-fatted soy flour, TVP is a complete protein and provides a hefty amount of your daily nutrients.
Continue readingGrowing up, bagels were practically their own food group, and a big chewy sesame bagel, warm from the toaster and practically frosted with luxurious cream cheese was an easy, tasty breakfast before I headed off to school. Harder than giving up cheese, harder than giving up ice cream, was giving up cream cheese for me…
Continue readingThere are a lot of hard-and-fast rules in the vegan community, things that we all know to be true. No food with faces. No food that once had a mother. No animal secretions. It’s all relatively straightforward, except for one very grey area that it seems we haven’t been able to come to an agreement on.
Continue readingWith a name that translates directly to “the food of the gods”, Theobroma cacao, better known to us as “chocolate,” has been enjoyed for millennia as everything from a bitter brewed tea to a creamy cold treat on summer afternoons. In addition to its rich history, dark chocolate comes with..
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