Asian Blood Orange Chicken

Asian Blood Orange Chicken recipe - cookin5m2-3

During the days of Sprouts, I used to give “lectures” to guests regarding food consciousness. Few were those who are aware of what goes into their food, most of those were the ones who cook.

We have not been very aware of our nutrition except for the past few decades. We have been, and somehow still are, subject to what we’re told to eat and not to. With the rise of ready-made and processed foods, we ate without knowing what is going into the food. It was only until recent times that some of us became aware of what goes into what we’re eating. Continue reading “Asian Blood Orange Chicken” →

Vegan Faux Truffles and Memories

What is it with Christmas and truffles?
There is something about these two.
They both bring joy.

Faux Fake Chocolate Truffles Recipe - Cookin5m2-1

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Mexican-inspired Couscous Salad

Mexican inspired couscous salad-1008 It’s the second week of lent. I am not fasting. I haven’t for the past couple of years. But I still remember the time I did. It was hard time even though I only quit meats and dairy and became vegan before I knew it for 50 days once in my lifetime. The rest of the years, the ones when I fasted at least, I would quit meats the whole time, or at least the first and last week, and every Wednesday and Friday. Nowadays, I’m not sure I can (or want to) fast but for sure I can quit certain food. I will when I want to.
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Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup

Once you start cooking yourself, your perspective towards certain ingredients change a lot.

My relationship with onions for example has been like those relationships on my favourite TV show Glee; one of love, hate and then love again. Mom tells me I used to crawl to the produce basket in the kitchen, steal an onion and chomp on it until mom finds me in tears with that onion in my little hands. I grew up to find myself removing onions from food. Large pieces of onions in dishes like tabbouleh and mjadara used to annoy me and I used to move them to one side. Up until I started working at Burger King in 2006, onions have been my enemy. It didn’t take much until that changed. Rounds of onions sneaked their way into my burgers, then into my cooking and now their smell is on my fingers. Ever since I started cooking, I have loved using onions; raw or cooked. I get a little hesitant when I have onions from mom’s cooking but never when it’s mine.

Creamy Cauliflower soup-cookin5m2-2

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