January 2012
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Vanuatu national food- lap lap
Vanuatu’s national dish is a root vegetable cake called ‘laplap’. It is made from manioc (cassava) grated or shaved into a banana leaf with wild local cabbage that I was talking about before and coconut, wrapped into a flat parcel and cooked underground.
Vanuatu staple root veggie ” manioc”
plantain - cooking banana
I found ” lap lap” in the market
Manioc lap...
Easy, healthy and cheap desert with unknown...
Rasberries are not cheap in Sydney.
Look at these organic fresh raspberries! only $2 !
One punnet of raspberries is like $6 in Sydney. This is like three times bigger than one punnet.
so you can imagine how exited I was…
Then I ate them…nnn? Sour! very similar taste to raspberries but definitely more sour! These are not raspberries!
Anyway, I could not eat berries...
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Vegetables that I had for the first time
I had a few vegetable I have never seen or eaten in Vanuatu.
This is called “ local cabbage” in Vanuatu
It doesn’t look cabbage, does it? Well, it is dark leafy green veggie, must be really nutritious!
A lady making a bunch of local cabbage at the market
It is huge but only A$1 to 2 ( 100 to 150 Vatu )
* Me and local cabbage in front of our room. get idea how huge it is?
When I cut the...
Vegetarian meal at the market
There are some area you can actually dine at the market
I must say this in THE ONLY PLACE that you pay meal as a local price. All meal like chicken curry with rice or grilled fish with rice are 400 vatu ( A$1 = 107 vatu ) , quite cheap, isn’t it?
Places are quite clean. I got scared many times at market or market dining area in South East Asia but here looks quite clean and peaceful,...
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Market in Vanuatu
There is a big fruits and veggie market in the town in Portvila.
All fruits and veggies here are organic, well I mean everything in Vanuatu is organic anyway.
selling various veggies and fruits
It is definitely much cheaper than supermarket. The cheapest is on the road, sometime not even people are not around but market is open 7am to 11pm and in the middle of town so we went to this market...
December 2011
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Super juicy fruits straight from trees in...
I have been eating lots of fruits here in Vanutatsu.
Whenever I travel, I search for seasonal, local and value fruits in each countries.
You can see from blogs from Hawaii, Singapore, Spain…
It seems like banana, mango, paw paw and pineapples are the most popular fruits here. All the fruits are not ” good looking” but all fruits are ” organic” here!
...
Vegetarian meal on Air Vanuastu
I am still new to have vegetarian meal on plane. My first one was only 6 months ago! so I am still get very exited what I am going to get on plane :)
My flight was from Sydney to Portvilla, Vanuatsu. It is a short flight ( 3.5h ) so only one meal
Potato and pumpkin bake - layered thinly sliced potato and pumpkin. Bechamel sauce in between. Because of pumpkin, it was sweet.
Veggies with...
Day 4- 3 beans chilli and gluten free banana cake...
It is the last day of detox. Tomorrow is the photo shooting and the day after is my holiday.
Day 4, start from salt water purge and after staying toilet for a while, had green smoothie as usual.
Today, I am going to town that is 50km away from CBD for cooking demonstrations. I will not cook any detox food there, so I was thinking what I can bring for my lunch in despair.
Again, still...
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Detox 3- pan fried tempeh with avocado salsa and...
Day 3. Started from salt water purge. then green smoothie, exactly the same as yesterday.
For snack, I was eating carrot like a rabbit.
Lunch
Quinoa tabouli and pan-fried tempe with avocado salsa.
Both quinoa and tempeh are complete protein! very filling
Marinated tempeh - kind of soy sauce based. quite nice.
probiotic, the good bacteria in tummy food
Pan fry all sides
Then I...
Day 2 - detox
It’s the second day. I am so proud again today :)
Even though I had a meeting at 7am, I woke up early and still did salt water purge in the morning.
and I found new thing about salt water purge….
It was harder to do the purge this morning, and I know why.
I ate the soup with buckwheat late last night!
I was quite surprised that I didn’t have much problem doing purge...
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Day 1 detox additional -kale, enoki, daikon and...
I must confess that I had soup my day 1 detox.
After writing the day 1 detox, I got hungry, and felt cold. I guess I just ate cold food, No, fresh living food only and also quite small amount unlike me. I normally eat at least 4 times more than that. also we are having quite cold summer this year in Sydney :(
so I wanted to have something warm, also filling…so made kale, enoki, daikon...
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detox day 1
2011 is nearly over. It is hard time to do detox because of Christmas party season, but I MUST do this right now to cleanse myself. ( also hoping to have flat tummy )
My detox diet is
NO caffeine, alcohol, dairy, gluten, white sugar and rice, red meat ( I’ m vegetarian so no meat anyway )
and eat lots of ” living food ” which is raw veggies and fruits, preferably in liquid...
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salt water purge
I must say this is not my favourite thing to do. It is disgusting…but after drink the salt water and stay in the toilet, I can actually see and feel I am cleansing.
I do salt water purge when I am on detox. During detox, I eat less, and clean food.
No caffeine, alcohol, dairy, gluten, process food, white sugar or rice. No red meat if you are non vegetarian.
I love talking about this...
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Italian in Italian town -Five Dock
Five Dock is another Italian town in Sydney, I heard that 80% of people live in Five Dock is related in Italian. My Japanese friend who married to Italian man lives in Five Dock, too!
So going to Italian restaurant in Five Dock is not a bad idea.
I choose this restaurant because it has lots of good reviews and also running more than 30 years! must be good
I was driving, and even has GPS, I...
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Vegetarian Syrian dinner
I went to market in Bondi Junction to get ”chemical free” veggie then I found Syrian food stall.
I actually didn’t know it existed even though this stall has been here for 6 months. I normally just get eggs and vegetable so didn’t pay attention.
then I did closer look, OMG, all vegetarian! ( except one dish with fish )
Very kind guy kept giving me little...
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November 2011
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Burrito bowl x
I like to go to Guzman Y Gomez for quick bite.
It is a Mexican take away franchise shop in Australia ( only Sydney and Queensland )
It offers fresh Mexican food.
I always get vegetarian burrito with whole meal wrap. ( plain and gluten free wrap are also available ) It is healthy enough, isn’t it??? Plenty of ” real ” food. you know, fresh tomato, avocado,...
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New Vietnamese restaurant in Newtown
This is new Vietnamese restaurant in Newtown
A chef and co-owner of Rice paper Vietnamese cuisine, Anh Lam was the co-owner and head chef of the famous Saigon Bowl Vietnamese Restaurant in Strathfield for over 15 years.
So no doubt, she knows what she is doing very well. Also this restaurant opened this mid September, still got write up from Sydney morning herald.
As I can imagined, food...
Lebanese
I just can’t believe that I didn’t know such a fresh, tasty Lebanese food with unbelievably reasonable cost with so many vegetarian choices near my place. It is a heaven for vegetarian ( I am sure heaven for non-vegetarian )
Well obviously famous Lebanese dips are all vegetarian, you know, hummus, baba gannoush etc and salad tabbbouli and my favourite salad fattouch is vegetarian, also...
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Gopals - Best restaurant in this trip ! healthiest...
This is the last restaurant in Melbourne and like the most!
Thanks to Sharon, who lives in Melbourne and has been vegetarian for eight years recommend this restaurant. Her most favourite vegetarian is ” Young green food ” on Brunswick st but I simply didn’t have time to go that far. I will go next time I am in Melbourne.
Gopals- seves Hare Krishna meals NO ONION,...
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Lord of the fries
It is such a beautiful day again in Melbourne!
It is the best time to have Lord of the fries by Yarra river cos it is take away only! ( I went to Elizabeth street shop. I am not sure other shops has tables )
beautiful river side
See the queue !
I have been exited about “ Load of the fries” when I first found out a few days ago.
Why so exiting? because….
-Fries are...
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vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne 2
I had an hour and half lunch break so I rushed to CBD to have vegetarian lunch.
Today’s pick is Chan house
It is still new. It opened 18months ago by Vietnam born Chinese couple Fiona and George. All food serve here is NO GARIC AND ONION
Chan house offers very reasonable lunch set menu
select two choice form daily menu consist of various dim sims, veggie stir-fry, mock meat dishes +...
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Cheap vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne!
That’s right! I am in Melbourne for 5 days this week!
Beeeeautiful day!!! Beautiful Flinders station!!!!!!
Well, I wish this is holiday but not really.
I am attending seminar from 9am to 11pm everyday, lunch time is quite short and bit far from city so I can’t really go to city and eat.. and I don’t think any restaurants will be open after 11pm. I thought I wouldn’t...
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Vegetarian Taiwanese dinner at Cho dumpling king
I felt like having home made dumpling and noodle to be bit naughty so we decided to go to dumpling place in China town.
then I got districted by Taiwanese restaurant next to it.
See…lots of dishes on little plates..
and I can see lots of vegetarian plates
so changed our plan
I was just exited to pick all veggie dishes
bamboo shoot with chilli oil
Tofu skin simmered with soy...
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Surprise healthy cake
My boy friend bought me a surprise cake at serious healthy organic shop on Oxford st in Bondi Junction. The shop also sells serious healthy stuff, herbs, salt, skin products and food like sprouted bread and more…They make everything at their place. kind of scary place. Door is always closed, so you won’t know what is there until you open. The owner was actually arrested to sell raw...
October 2011
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Cactus rice - vegetarian mexican dinner in...
We went to a local Mexican restaurant Azteca’s. My friend Miyoung, been there before and she told me it was nice but she ate meat dish so we were just hoping that vegetarian dishes are also nice…
Start from Dip
Tres en uno $14.2
Your choice of any three dips, we choose
Guacamole- avocado mixed with tomato, onion and spices
Jalapeno- A special blend of sour cream and jalapeno...
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Super smoothie with kale
I have green smoothie every morning. I truly think that this habit is the best habit I have at the moment.
Ingredients are fruits and green leafy veggie + seeds + alkaline water
No sugar or daily! full of goodness!
For seeds, I have been putting only chia seeds but these days I start to put both chia seeds and flaxseeds ( linseeds ) Flaxseeds are much cheaper than chia seeds but contains...
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tangy tahini sauce recipe to go with kale
Here is the recipe for tangy tahini sauce. It goes well not only steamed kale, but also other steamed veggies like spinach, broccoli, beans, cauliflower, oh, potato will be good, too.
Tangy tahini sauce
Ingredients
2 TBSP hulled tahini
1 TBPS lemon juice
1 TBSP water
1/2 tsp sea salt
Method: simply mix all ingredient!!!!
It is VERY important to use hulled tahini. If you use unhulled...
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Japanese lunch with kale
Yes! I am still eating kale.
I felt like Japanese so I cooked Japanese lunch. It’s vegan and gluten free :)
See…I can sometime cook more than one dish for lunch like Japanese people do!
Steam kale with tangy tahini sauce - It is Veronique’s favourite way of having kale that was commented in my Facebook page
Thank you Veronique for the inspiration!
I made Tahini sauce...
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Kale week- Korean noodle
My Kale week is still going on :)
Today, I cooked Japchae, the Korean noodle.
Japchae is a popular Korean noodle dish made from sweet potato. Yes, it is GLUTEN FREE noodle :) stir fried with thinly sliced carrot, onion, spinach and mushroom seasoned with sesame oil, soy sauce, salt and sugar. Pretty simple!
Dried Korean sweet potato noodle - boil for 10 mins before frying
...
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Kale week - Garlic brown rice with kale
This week is the kale week!
Yuko told me her favourite kale dish is saute kale with lots of garlic in my Facebook page.
so why not garlic rice with kale!
Quite simple..
Kale, olive oil, sea salt and pepper …and rice! of course! I used brown rice.
I chopped kale stalk finely. I quite like Kale stalks. very crunchy!
The key to this is fry the garlic very slowly to infuse the...
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Lost in Bondi beach...
After having such a wonderful rice paper roll at misschu at Master chef live, all I want to do was eating at misschu.
When I see the menu card, I found misschu in Bondi beach!
I was so exited and drove in a hurry then…
found out
NOT OPENED YET!!!!!
Even though I live near Bondi beach, I hardly ever go there to eat. Long time no see, then found a change there. A new fancy looking...
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Kale week
I have been having green smoothie every morning for a year now.
I love putting kale in my smoothie because kale, the king of veggie is the best eaten in raw, and chewed very very well to absorb maximum nutrients ( my super blender do much better job than my chewing! ) then I realised I hardly ever cooked kale… how silly! When I posted about kale in my Facebook page, I got a few wonderful...
Master chef live
I went to Master chef live last Sunday. It was my second visit. Last year, I was working so I could not see much but this year, I was also working for that event but not Sunday so I got time to see more this year.
There were lots of Master chef contestants doing the cooking demo
Deni at De Detrich cooking school, cooking pumpkin, goat cheese and spinach risotto.
Adam at Spiral foods stage
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Epic Vegan: If everyone went vegetarian just for... →
epicvegan:
100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;
1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico…
little change make a huge difference
September 2011
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Indian restaurant with sea view
I enjoy dining at Indian restaurant in Rosebay “Jewel on the bay” because I can enjoy meal outside with sea view at reasonable price.
Especially this time of the year, we can enjoy little bit of sun during early dinner.
Jewel on the bay on New south head rode, Rose bay
outside seats with sea view
After or before meal, we can enjoy walking around Rose bay
Start from...
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Fantaaastic vegetarian degustation
I had a fantastic vegetarian 7 course degustation at Blancharu, Elizabeth bay.
Owner chef Inukai san is Japanese and offering Japanese- French style cuisine there. I actually have been ” stalking ” him since he was working at VII Restaurant ( I still can’t forget how fabulous the food was…) and Galileo.
I have been Blancharu a couple of time but I wasn’t...
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Dinner at Green gourmet
Green gourmet is vegetarian restaurant in Newtown and St. Leonards.
I have been to Green gourmet many times but for some reason, I have never been to dinner time.
I love yum cya on weekend! so many varieties! Also they do buffet lunch on weekday.
Finally we did have dinner!
For entree
wonton soup $5.5
wonton is home made. Making wonton is such a time consuming thing so I love eating...
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kale chips - my dehydrator may be used soon
When I went to health shop in Potts point to kill my time, I found a kale chips packet.
It is RAW kale chips.
Raw means here is not heated over 46C ( 115F ).
This chips is dried low temparature to keep enzymes, nutrients and minerals. Especially enzymes are very important to treated at low temparature.
We will not find one enzyme in cooked food because they are destroyed when heated above...
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Food Food Food: Naughty day...veggie burger at... →
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healthysoycooking:
I knew Hungry Jacks make veggie burgers but haven’t had one yet.
but a few days ago, I found out that Oporto is also doing veggie burger. ( Oporto is FC fast food chicken and burger shop in Australia )
I am in a mode to be naughty …sometime I have such moment…so instead of having healthy…
Tip for the veggie burger from Oporto: ask to have it cooked...
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Naughty day...veggie burger at Oporto
I knew Hungry Jacks make veggie burgers but haven’t had one yet.
but a few days ago, I found out that Oporto is also doing veggie burger. ( Oporto is FC fast food chicken and burger shop in Australia )
I am in a mode to be naughty …sometime I have such moment…so instead of having healthy dinner, I took away oporto veggie burger at Coogee beach.
At least, I choose water not...
Surprise party with lots of love xxxx yes, it is...
I must share this with you …
I have never organised vegetarian party or surprise party …I did both at once! in a very very silly way…
It was for my boy friend’s 40th birthday. We live together, and I organised the party at home. All I got was 2hours to make over our place…well technically 1.5 hours cos all guests are coming 30min before the birthday boy arrives.
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