Food and Recipes | My Source Life

Ingredient Spotlight: Agar

If you haven’t heard of Agar, then let me be the first to introduce you! For vegans it is an absolute must-have ingredient in your cooking toolbox, and for non-vegans, its a way to replace gelatin in your diet. Agar, also referred to as Agar-Agar or kanten, is a gelling agent that comes from seaweed. It can also be used in fruit preserves, [read more]

My Kids’ Vegan Mac and Cheese

I offer you my families vegan mac and cheese. There are no fake ingredients, and it’s a version that can fit in right next to your lineup of other mac and cheese interpretations. Its warm, creamy, comforting and even has that classic orange color! [read more]

30 minute Chili

I put together this recipe for the days I just…CAN’T! It uses ingredients that I always have on hand, and it makes all kinds of easy meals. I’m talking chili with cornbread and greens, chili dogs, chili fries, chili with tortilla chips, chili mac and cheese! I know, I know, chili is supposed to be slow cooked, and it gets [read more]

Orange Miso Rice Wraps

By Kristin Fraser Orange Miso Rice Wraps Yields 6 rolls. 2-3 Rolls per person is suitable Ingredients: 6 Rice Wraps 1 Carrots, Julienned (2 ½-3” long strips, approx. 1/8” thick) 1/4 Small Head of Purple Cabbage 1⁄2 Cucumber, Julienned 1 Container Sunflower Sprouts 1⁄4 Cup Cashews, Crushed 1⁄3 Cup Fresh Cilantro, Chopped Procedure: [read more]

Ingredient Spotlight: Kala Namak

When I was a kid, the most dreaded item I could find in my lunchbox, besides a tuna sandwich, was a hard-boiled egg. Upon cracking the shell, the sulfurous stinky smell exploded in a cloud that elicited exclamations of ‘Ewww gross!! Rotten egg!!’ Which was then followed by a mass exodus of those around me and a mortification that [read more]