tilapia or basa fish dinner

Talipia dinner

• 1 piece Basa or Talapia
• Tomato sauce (vodka sauce is best)
• peppers - yellow and orange
• red onion
• asparagus

Put some oil on the bottom of a foil lined pan.  Place the fish, then a generous amount of sauce and layer the vegetables over top.  Cook at 375 F for 20 min's approx or until fish is flaky.

Courtesy of Andrea Voss...

montreal poutine - extra cheese 

my favourite!

omelette

Omelette

• asparagus (lightly cooked)
• ricotta cheese
• red onions and red peppers cooked
• sesame and poppy seeds

Mix 2 eggs with a splash of milk and the seeds.  Put a bit of oil in the pan and let the eggs cook until they're almost cooked on top.  Put your ingredients in and flip one side over.  Let it cook until the cheese is a little melty and enjoy!

brekkie

cauliflower crust pizza

Cauliflower crust pizza

• 1/2 LARGE head cauliflower (2c approx)
• 1 egg
• 1 c mozzarella or cheddar cheese
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp garlic

Shred the cauliflower.  Place the cauliflower crumbles in a large bowl and microwave them (dry) for 8 minutes and it will cook itself.

**I've added the cheese and just eaten the cauliflower as is - everything's better when shredded!

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Spray a cookie sheet or pizza pan with nonstick spray.  In a medium bowl, mix the cauliflower with the remaining crust ingredients. Pat the "crust" into a 9 to 12-inch round on the prepared pan. Spray the crust lightly with nonstick spray and bake for 15 minutes (or until golden).
Add your own toppings and broil for a few minutes until ready.

white bean dip

White bean dip

• 1 can white kidney beans
• 1/2 c olive oil
• 1/2 c parmesan
• salt/pepper
• 1/4 c water

Fill the blender with water and the kidney beans.  Blend and add the rest of the ingredients.  Blend until smooth.  Serve with carrots or chips.  It's better than hummus! 

Fake chicken & broccoli casserole

Fake chicken & broccoli casserole

• one package St. Yves fake chicken strips
• 1 can Campbell's cheddar soup
• 1 bunch broccoli
• 1/2 c yogurt
• 1 can mushrooms
• 1 1/2 c cheddar cheese

Mix all ingredients together and bake at 350c for 30-40min's.

Chili taste tesT...

So, I’m not your typical vegetarian.

I’m not here to rant and rave or chase meat-eaters around with a wooden spoon.

I don’t particularly love salad and I CAN’T live without lots of gooey cheese.

I’m pretty picky – I don’t like peas, beans are alright and I still don’t like squash even though my Grandma tries to get me to eat it every Christmas.

I have a leather bag and I don’t care if my food “touched” meat on the grill.

I’m not going to bore you to death at a restaurant and try to force my views upon you if you happen to like meat.

But I have made the choice to not eat it for the past 19 years basically because it’s grown to eat and there is no balance left in the process.  If I was an Inuit in the wild hundreds of years ago, I would hunt too because I would be hungry - but mostly I would try to survive off berries.

Enough on meat.

So far, I’ve been to 27 countries and I want to share food, wine and hilarious and awkward travel stories.

August

I agreed to go to a chili taste test.  This may seem strange to seeing as I’m a vegetarian but they were paying $60 cash just to try out 3 different kinds and pick your favourite.  ‘This would be easy’, I thought, ‘all I have to do is take a little nibble out of each one and they’ll never know that I’m not eating the beef.’  The leader, with his hearty Texas beef inspired accent, had no idea a traitor was among them.

Well, some of those pieces were really small and while I was carefully inspecting each bite, the people around me were slurping theirs down as a paid dinner.  I even had to spit a piece out.  When I turned to the guy next to me and said that they all kind of tasted the same, he raised his eyebrow and said they definitely did not.  OK, my bad.  All I know is that each cup got a very poor scoring for their lack of vegetables – 2 beans and a tomato – I counted.

The last cup of chili we had to try had “add-ons” so I sprinkled all of the cheese, peppers and tomato toppings into my bowl and ate those before the chili engulfed them like an active volacano. 

And that’s how a vegetarian taste tests chili and gets paid for it!