Pics of my body

OK, I'm not an athlete. At least not right now, because I'm not really training these days, nor was I when these pics were taken. I was just cutting to minimize bodyfat, and did not had access to a gym, so I was basically just doing some bodyweight exercises. And gaining huge size wasn't my primary goal at all. But I always got lots of energy on a vegan diet, with sufficient calories, so I can easily make 100km bike rides and recover quickly. I want to get back to training, especially weightlift training in a gym, I liked that. Perhaps also some martial arts classes.




Anyway, I'm just showing these to show that the bias against vegetarians and vegans telling that they are weak, too lean, not strong, etc, is in fact just a bias, based on ignorance. Everybody wants to be lean, but then they accuse vegans to be lean ?? There are obese vegans too. But there are certainly more obese omnivores, with all the cholesterol and sat. fats in dairies in meat. Veganism is in fact the optimum diet to achive superior physic and mental skills. Eating corpses can surely be only detrimental to health and fitness.
I like this comment from someone on the web :

gyms I've been (…) are filled with skinny rats who stuff themselves with corpses to try (to) get big -- Mik

Like I said, I'm not a real athlete, watch THIS LINK to see real vegetarian and vegan athletes.

vegan cheese, sauce, pastas

vegan mac & cheese photo organicbluespiral.

I experimented to make a cheesy sauce with that :

(fat-free) soy milk (or other non-dairy alternative), nutritional yeast, cornstarch or potato starch, lemon juice, garlic, onion powder, mustard, paprika, turmeric, pepper, miso, tahini… Add oil, Veganaise, Earth Balance butter or margarine if you want fats.



Nachos Cheese sauce
0. ½ c nutritional yeast
0. 3 T flour
0. 4 t corn starch or arrowroot powder
0. ½ t salt
0. 1 c water
0. 1 T olive oil
2 t Dijon mustard

Heat while stirring.



Tahini Rich Spaghetti

This is so good. Just add a spoon or more of tahini to your spaghetti sauce, or sunflower seeds butter if you don't have sesame. I like to add some curry spices too, chopped onions and yeast extract.


Why not adding some MEATBALLS on top of that:

different ingredients for vegan meatballs : bread crumbs, 1 Tbsp. olive oil
1/2 small onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
1-2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 lbs, Yves Ground-Beef style
3 Tbsp. ketchup
3 Tbsp. spicy mustard
3-6 Tbsp. Texas Pete brand hot sauce 
1/4 cup wheat germ
1/4 cup vegan parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper, to taste

some biscuits I've tried out

photo par organicbluespiral.

I changed this recipe a lot, added more chocolate chips, less pure fat, etc.

Chocolate chip cookies
(from vegcooking)

2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Egg Replacer equivalent of 2 eggs (Ener-G Egg Replacer works best, but you can also mix together 2 tsp. cornstarch and 1/4 cup water)
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, brown sugar, sugar, vanilla, and egg replacer mixture. Stir in the flour mixture and mix well. Add the chocolate chips and mix.
• Drop the dough by spoonfuls onto a lightly oiled cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

veggie burgers

photo: organicbluespiral.

Some that I ate recently

There's all kinds of burgers you can make, you don't need to put a corpse between the bread, but use something more edible.
There's veggie burger, lentill burger, tofu burger, seitan burger, probably more that I never heard of. There's far more varieties of vegan burgers than traditionnal ones (choice of different meat, poultry or fish).

Sesame Burger



Cheese burger (with vegan cheese of course)



Use onions, spices, tofu, or grains or seeds or nuts or a legume of your choice, mix. make patties and heat ! No salmonella or E. colli risks if you don't cook it enough ; )

This simple recipe is pretty good:

TOFU BURGERS
1 tub extra firm tofu, mashed
1 cup oats
1/2 cup cashews, ground
4 tbsp soy sauch
Pinch garlic powder
Pinch salt
2 tbsp chopped onion

Mix all ingredients, form into patties, and pan fry.

You don't even have to stick to this recipe. I used macadamia nuts instead of cashews, and I've tried also without any nuts, all were good.

Cookies and other desserts

photo: organicbluespiral.

Those were really decadent. You could add also some vegan caramel inside. 

Recipe for Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Shells






Recipe for vegan snowballs, aka Russian tea cakes.


I found that these were too heavy and dense. I prefer the cakey ones, without all these nuts.

Oatmeal banana- chocolate cookies




I made some with extra chocolate, that was divine:



Maple walnut cookies





I don't even remember where I got the recipe, perhaps it was this one. Anyway, these surely look good ;)

I found it tasted too much walnut. Use less walnuts for the dry mix. And on the top, put just a small piece of walnut, not half of it.
Put some raisins. It wasn't sweet enough. Add stevia, agave nectar, etc.
I don't use pure fat when I do recipes, so usually I substitute the margarine for tofu in salted recipes or with a banana in sweet recipes. A banana instead of all the fats is perfect and just common sense.


The dry mix. I added some maple flakes. 



I tried those carob- chocolate cookies



The carob chips burnt while the chocolate melts.



Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Squares



The wet mix : melting peanut butter, maple syrup and chocolate.



The Recipe here.

The Poutine Experiment

photo : organicbluespiral.

What is poutine ? Just some French fries in brown gravy with cheddar curds. I loved to eat poutine once in a while before I went vegan. And it has been the hardest meal for me to quit. Like a drug. Strangelly I wasn't eating this that often.

Anyway, as a vegan I can eat some vegan poutine so I don't see why it was such a big deal.
On the picture above I used avocado (use a very riped one, and let it soften a bit in the gravy), because I had no vegan cheese. They pretty expensive. But once I bought some and made a vegan poutine that really looked and tasted like the real traditionnal one.

pancakes, French toasts and more

photo: organicbluespiral.

Some ideas for vegan breakfasts

 

Fruit salad: Blueberry with bananas, or nectarine with banana slices. 



Crunchy eanut butter and raspberry jam. 





Banana slices, dark chocolate in peanut butter, blackberry jam, agave nectar...





Pillsburry turnovers (the ones that are vegan are the apple one and the cherry one I think. Anyway it's disgusting, I had to add many things to make them edible.



FRENCH TOASTS

Now this is super easy, quick, and delicious.

Just take the amount of bread (thick sliced is better) that you desire to eat. Soak them 5-20 minutes in soy milk (like one cup for 4-5 french toasts) with a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon. You can add a bit of soymilk powder too to make it more heavy, less liquid toasts inside. You can use other milk alternatives than soy.



Spray a pan or use a few drops of veg oil. Then heat 2-3 minutes on each side, using a bit of vegan margarine. Cook until golden and crispy on the outside but mellow in the inside.
Pour agave nectar, or maple syrup, strawberry jam, etc...
I loved French toasts before I went vegan, especially when I was really young. But sometimes it tasted eggs. Who honnestly like how eggs tastes !? everybody put a mountain of salt on their eggs or eat them with something else. 
One thing is sure, those vegan French toasts are the best ones I ever had in my entire life. It's not perfect every shot, sometimes it depends of the day, your mood, little details in how you prepare them that makes all the differences. But it's better than with fucking eggs that come from concentration camps or from sick cows.

Enjoy




PANCAKES AND CRÈPES



Buckwheat pancakes and Breton crèpes recipe here
Just substitute tje eggs for an egg replacer.



With molasses




Good morning !

vegan chocolate cake

photo organicbluespiral.

This is a pretty easy "recipe", and pretty good ;) it was made with the Duncan Haynes cake mix, which is supposed to be vegan. I don't even remember if you're suppose to add eggs to the mix, if yes theu use eggs replacer or baking powder. 

Chocolate Frosting

You can use silken tofu (or margarine if you like more fat) whipped with chocolate or carob chips or powder, melt these at low heat while stirring, add vanilla extract, and sugar until creamy.

Lunch at Chuch

Imperial rollsphoto Guillaume Désilets.

When I went to Montreal several weeks ago.

Chuch is a vegan restaurant on St-Denis street, right next to ChuChai, a less cheap version of it.
I found the service was bad and the fod too expensive, probably microwaved. I don't know if it is the cashier (which was also the maid) who prepared the plate too, if so I hope she washed her hands...

me

me
Mise en ligne par organicbluespiral

I tought I could talk a bit about myself
Right now I'm living in Val-David which is 45 minutes from Montreal city, where I lived pretty much all my life and will probably return soon.
I'm 27 years old... Not much to say right now but perhaps later
Visit myspace for more details
-Here's some recent (summer 2008) pics of me. I wanted to be more fit than this but things went wrong ! No summer at all, I mean that it was raining everyday, really depressing.
Besides, there was no gym to train.
I can't wait to go back in town, work, train, go out, etc.

Yam salad and raw zuchini pastas

Potato salad makes great side dishes. Just boil some potatoes of your choice (I used yams), diced. Don't cook for too long otherwise it's gonna become mashed potato! I used one mashed avocado as the base for the sauce, then add about 1 tbs of each of those: Dijon mustard, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, olive oil. A pinch of salt & pepper, some other spices like turmeric, garlic...
Raw zuchini pastas: Use a 2:1 ratio: 2 medium zuchini for 1 avocado. Peel and grate the zuchinis. Mash avocado. Add a few drops of lemon juice, a pinch of salt & pepper. With some fresh garlic it's very good too.

lunch - sandwich, tofudogs, millet pie

Végé-pâté sandwich.

Millet pie.

Tofudogs and French fries.