I love food festivals, and I love finding fun things to do in Toronto.

So just a little heads-up on some awesome foodie events in Toronto that are coming up in the next few months that I’ll be attending for fun! Check them out!

Toronto Veggie Pride Parade - June 2 2012

• From Yonge and Bloor (Asquith Ave.) to Trinity Square (near Eaton Centre)
• Saturday June 2, 2012. 11:30am – 3:00pm
• 2012 Silver Sponsors: Camino, Fressen, Live Organic Food Bar, Sweets From The Earth, Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, Urban Herbivore, and more!

Toronto Raw/Vegan Festival - June 9-10 2012

• 918 Bathurst St. (North of Bloor)
• Saturday June 9, 2012. 10:00am – 8:00pm
• Sunday June 10, 2012. 10:00am – 4:00pm
• Workshops after 4:30pm
• Admission is FREE!

-Nikki

So, I went onto my FaceBook page [yes, I have FaceBook...] and took a quick peek into my foodie album. To date, I have 179 pictures in that album, and my first one dates back to June 2008. WOWZERS! Some are silly pictures, but some are pretty good. Which really motivates me to go and get a better camera, and put a little more effort into staging the pictures. [90% of the pictures in that album are shot with either an iPhone 3G-S or an iPhone 4S] Once school’s finished up and I actually have more time, I look forward to indulging in my artistic and foodie side a little more… I miss it!

Anyways, instead of me chatting about the pictures, how about you go take a look yourself?

Check out the pictures here! I have the gallery open to the public. 

Note to the vegans/vegetarians: There are dishes that contain meat in this gallery, as a lot of these were taken before I went vegan. One thing I’m excited to do is go back to a lot of my old recipes (many of the pictures have links to blog posts with recipes) and go “veganize” them! That should be fun!

Here’s a few of the pictures that I like!

I also mention a really cool raw vegan book I got, and use the juicer to make one of the recipes! So if you have the time, check it out!

Here’s the recipe I used for the Juice in the video!

A Glass of Sass

Ingredients:

• 1 whole bunch spinach
• 1 medium cucumber
• 1/2 bunch celery
• 1 small bunch parsley
• 1/2 inch knob of ginger
• 2 apples, cored
• 1/2 lime, peeled
• 1/2 lemon, peeled

The book title is: “Rawesomely Vegan! The ultimate raw vegan recipe book”, and the author is Mike Snyder. It’s definitely worth a read!

Here’s the juicer on the company website!

PS: Here’s the recipe for the Ruby Red Super Juice that I mention in this video!

I’m not going to re-post the recipe, so you’ll have to give her blog a look-see to find it. My alterations to the recipe were that I used coconut sugar in place of regular sugar, silken tofu in place of hard tofu + soy milk, and I used agave nectar in place of molasses.

Here’s a picture of my serving of this delightful mousse! I highly suggest you give it a try…

YUM! Peanut butter mousse!

Here’s some of the recipes that I’ve posted there recently!

• Dill Hummus
• Today’s Smoothie – Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
• Vegan Chocolate Pudding – My Avocado’s Fate

That’s just a taste of some of the recipes I’ve posted over there (hah, pun intended), so go check them out!

Have a great day everyone!

So here’s today’s smoothie recipe!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup coconut water
• 1 frozen banana, cut into chunks
• 1 scoop protein powder (I’ve been using the chocolate Performance Protein by Vega for a little while now, and I’m loving it! So yummy, and dairy/soy free!)
• 1 scoop GREENSuperFood by Amazing Grass - chocolate flavour (pictured below)
• 1 tbsp flax seed meal
• Splash of pomegranate juice

• Blend all ingredients together, and drink up!

 

coco-choco-banana smoothie

GREENSuperFood

There’s two flavours:

1. Coconut Banana Cream Pie (made with coconut milk)
2. Chocolate Strawberry (made with cashew milk)

Check out the new blog I’ve started for a project in my Interactive Marketing class!

We were asked to create a blog about something we’re passionate about on the Blogger website, and since I’ve already got this blog as my baby, I decided to do something somewhat related, but with a twist! It’s still new, and still in the works… But I really like the direction it’s going in!

It puts a primary focus on:

• Vegan/vegetarian foods
• Fitness related entries
• Reviews on random products focused on fitness and vegetarian/vegan food
• My own personal progress with P90x
• And there will also be some recipes thrown in because it’s impossible for me to have a blog without that!

One of my favourite sweet things to eat is carob. In powder form, solid form, whatever. It tastes awesome, and you don’t have to add any sugar to it! Oh, did I mention I’m also not really eating sugar? Some foods I eat have sugar in it, but not a lot… I haven’t opened up a bag/jar of sugar (white or brown) for a month, maybe longer. I was using honey, but then decided to give agave nectar a try. What a good decision! That stuff tastes great.

Anyways, here’s a recipe that I put together to satisfy that sweet tooth that pops up screaming for chocolate every once in a while! I’ve made this a few times now, one of the times being for a presentation in front of a group for a health and wellness class. The response was great, everyone loved them! There wasn’t a single one left, which was awesome, because that means a few people had more than one…

I did a print out with the recipe for people, so instead of writing out the recipe here, I’ll just post a picture of the recipe. It’s so simple, anyone can do it! If you decide to make this, and have ANY questions or are confused, ask away! Hope you enjoy!

Note: mix all ingredients together in a food processor!

Mmmmm....