Recipes from Vegetarian Vegan Cooking Classes

I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s in rural Canada. I mostly ate to fuel myself: hardy meat and potato dishes with no regard for calorie counting or how my diet impacted my health or the environment. I lived for some time on a grain-producing farm where our only animals were the wild ones in habitats (bears, deer, squirrels, birds, rabbits, coyotes, the odd lynx) and our self-grooming dogs and cats. We bought our meat and dairy from a store in town.  My father farmed part-time and worked full-time as a manager for an agricultural company that, along with seeds for growing crops, also sold the latest farm chemicals for killing weeds and insects (known as “pests”).  Upon occasion, when the flies were particularly densely located on the inside of our house’s windows, my mother would shoo us out into the yard while she sprayed DDT to instantly kill those annoying flies. If we had a group of visitors over in the evening and were doing something outside, like barbeque-ing or playing b...

I have to tell you that this BAKED TOFU recipe is one of my favourite tofu recipes of all time. Baked Tofu: Sesame Surprise  My husband and I have been back and forth on the Tofu Road.   We read a lot of health-related articles and watch a lot of (junk?) science on Youtube, so of course, we are well aware of the controversy around soy products... you know where you can go to read that side of the story as well. Well, here we are back again!  Because we have such great respect for slim heralds of plant-strong health like Dr. Darlene Blaney (recipes on this site),  Dr. Hans Diehl, Dr. John A. McDougall, Lani  Muelrath , Dr. Neal Barnard , among many others, some people we actually rub shoulders with on a regular basis, these tofu-eating crusaders for a healthy lifestyle have won us back again to tofu.   We're sort of like "slacker voters" I guess... we go with who impresses us the most with their pitch for benefits we will receive, and we vo...