Roasted red pepper hummus Ingredients • 1 cup (250 g) Ontario greenhouse red bell pepper, roasted and chopped* • 1 can (500 g) chick peas, drained and rinsed • 1 garlic clove, minced • 1/4 cup (63 ml) lemon juice • 3 tbsp. (45 ml) tahini • 2 tbsp. (30 ml) olive oil • 2 [...]

(NC)—The inspiration for this recipe came from a need for a vegetarian alternative to the classic beef stroganoff. Brown mushrooms give a stronger flavour and portabellas give a meat-like texture. Preparation Time: 12 minutes Cooking Time: 12 minutes 8 oz (250 g) whole fresh mixed Mushrooms (white, crimini, portabella or shiitake) 2 tbsp (25 mL) [...]

1 pound mixed crimini and button mushrooms 3 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 large yellow onion 1/2 teaspoon sweet Spanish paprika 3 cloves garlic chopped Italian parsley pinch sugar freshly ground sea salt freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup crème fraiche or sour cream 1 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese 12 6-inch corn tortillas [...]

(NC)—Sweet potatoes, Ontario apples and the rich tang of Gruyère cheese are a divine combination of flavours and add a sweet touch to Sunday night’s roast pork dinner or your Thanksgiving dinner. 3 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced in 1/4-inch (5 mm) thick rounds 1.5 kg 1 onion, thinly sliced into rings 1 4 Ontario [...]

(NC)—Cold, dark and long is the typical Ontario winter, and it’s during this time that most of the produce in your local grocery store is imported from warm, sunny places such as Florida, California and Mexico. Mushrooms are different. They are grown locally, never imported and always fresh – seven days a week, 12 months [...]

(NC)—As an excellent source of vitamin C with naturally occurring sugars that energize the body, it only makes sense that incorporating citrus fruit into your breakfast is a simple way to ensure you start the day off right. However, just because you begin the day with a healthy breakfast doesn’t mean the good habits have [...]

As a vegetarian teetering on the edge of veganism, I eat a lot of nuts and seeds. And as the summer turns to fall, I tend to throw almonds into my oatmeal, sunflower seeds into my soy yogurt, and, after carving pumpkins for Halloween (and roasting the seeds), pumpkins seeds straight into my mouth. But I [...]

At Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holiday meals, stuffing traditionally has a starring role.  This traditional dish made of cubed bread, seasonings, and vegetables has been a staple at American holiday tables for as long as anyone can remember. If you don’t eat meat, though, you’re usually left out of enjoying the stuffing.  Since traditional stuffing [...]

If there’s one thing that new vegetarians are asked time and time again, it’s “why be a vegetarian?”  The motivation for taking meat out of your diet may be confusing for some people, especially if they aren’t familiar with the wealth of delicious food available to vegetarians. A lot of vegetarians feel that they have [...]

Getting together for the holidays is one of the greatest joys of family life.  Even if you plan to gather for Thanksgiving with people who are not technically related to you, it seems like everyone becomes family over Thanksgiving dinner.  If you are planning to make this Thanksgiving a meat-free one, you should start stocking [...]

Do you remember eating hearty vegetable soup on a cold winter day?  Do you remember how great it felt to be warmed from the inside out?  Just because you’ve decided to go vegetarian doesn’t mean that you can no longer have the hearty comforting taste of warm soup!  There are plenty of vegetarian soup recipes [...]

There is really nothing tastier than vegetarian slow cooking. Although there are literally hundreds of delicious and nutritious vegetarian slow cooker recipes to choose from there are two in particular which are particularly popular and which you will want to try out first. Slow Cooker Artichokes Of all the vegetarian slow cooker recipes you can [...]

Pizza has been a staple of the American diet for a very long time now.  At your typical pizza restaurant, there are all sorts of different varieties of toppings, crusts, and even toppings inside of crusts!  Vegetarian pizza has been available at these establishments for a long time in the form of a vegetable-heavy pie.  [...]

Have you ever heard someone say that you can’t possibly survive on a vegetarian diet?  You may have heard that you’ll develop all kinds of nutritional deficiencies and become pale and sickly if you do not eat meat.  For a long time, vegetarian nutrition was thought of as an oxymoron. In fact, if you went [...]

Vegetarian cooking does not have to be boring or bland, and there are actually many delicious vegan recipes that you can prepare, which will be a delight, even to non-vegans. One of the favorite vegan recipes is the vegetarian navy bean soup, and although there are many versions and variations to this recipe, there is [...]

It happens to everyone at some point: it’s nearly dinner time, you have a hungry family waiting for some food, but you have no idea what to cook.  If your family is vegetarian, it can be difficult to just throw together a healthy and tasty meal on short notice.  One way to avoid this type [...]

The main benefits that a person can derive by eating vegetarian meals is that such meals play an important role in lowering cholesterol and also help in losing weight, especially as these vegetarian meals contain less of fat. Another benefit to vegetarian meals is that when preparing them you don’t need to worry too much [...]

At one time, the vegetarian diet was not widely known or accepted.  Vegetarians were seen as a fringe group composed of odd people.  Thanks to several outspoken vegetarians and vegetarian advocacy groups, the concept of a vegetarian diet doesn’t seem odd to most people anymore.  Vegetarian food is now widely available, even in fast food [...]

If you are a vegetarian, you probably worry if there will be anything for you to eat at holiday gatherings.  It’s a common point of fear for vegetarians when they eat meals in unfamiliar places.  This holiday season, why not make things easier for yourself and your hosts by bringing some vegetarian dishes to share? [...]

Most western societies are geared towards providing food that caters primarily to non-vegetarian eaters and thus people that talk about switching over to vegetarian diets are considered rather weird, because most people erroneously believe that remaining healthy is dependent on eating animal foods as well as meats. However, the truth is now dawning on many [...]