Vegetarian Salmon

This isn't salmon. Oh no. We finally cooked up the vegetarian mock salmon as seen here. A friend of a friend of mine got this at Lotus Pond, a vegan Buddhist restaurant. It's not vegan itself because it contains whey powder. As I said, I love that they bothered to replicate salmon skin using nori. Step 2: Replicating the little bones you are at risk of choking on.

Root Bake

This is the second root bake I have made in the past month, but putting a layer of sliced tomatoes on top definitely improved it. Love those nightshades. This consisted of yams, turnips, potatoes, celery, red pepper, onions, and carrots.

Black Bean Burgers

I made these ages ago, but thought them blogworthy since I have rarely been making anything besides salads and stirfrys. I'll post the recipe soon since they were delicious.

Blog Shoutout: Heather Eats Almond Butter

Heather Eats Almond Butter is pretty much my new favourite blog.

This is possibly because it reminds me of my answer to possibly the most intimate question one can ask a person: If you could only eat one food forever, what would it be? The rules of this questions are as follows:
a. It must be a single food, not a combination food eg. pizza
2. The food can only be prepared in one way.
iii. The nutritional value of the food does not need to sustain you. This is a taste-centric fantasy.

My answer is, without hesitation, almond butter. It's not often that I read a blog in its entirety. The author has a great whole food, no sugar approach to eating that isn't carb heavy. I get so many meal ideas from her. The pictures are also inspiring and she manages to make oatmeal look beautiful, which I can tell you is quite a feat.

Cherries

I love cherries. That is all.

Bacon N' Pancakes

This is the first time I have ever been witness to bacon cooking in my kitchen, so I had to document it. For reference, I did not eat this bacon. Here it is gently soaking grease into the Times Colonist.

I cooked blueberry-raspberry pancakes using fresh berries.



Next-day Father's Day pancakes. You can see how I poured the batter in a spiral.

Tempeh Vegetable Stir Fry

Organic marinated tempeh with broccoli, bok choy, celery, garlic, onions, red pepper + yellow pepper.
The making of.
I made this at a friend's house who had some weird food including vegetarian salmon.

I love the attention to detail. Vegetarian salmon skin, anyone?
Banana ketchup. Finally.

Fruit Salad for potlucks x2

So berries are ready and I'm on a fruit salad making bender.

bananas, lychee, mango, pineapple + strawberries

ataulfo mango, grapes, pineapple + strawberries

Orange Juice

We had about 15 oranges, so I liquefied them.

Jackfruit Smoothie

Besides this smoothie, I've only ever had jackfruit in freeze-dried form. It's said to be the largest of all tree-borne fruit and the flavour for Juicy Fruit gum. It's one of the few things I've heard compared to durians, so now I just need to find fresh ones...