About Me

Here at Sensei Cooks I write about my adventures in the kitchen and sometimes in the dojo.

I have a love for cooking and want to explore all the possible facets of it. Leave no stone unturned so to speak.

I am Vegan and love all types of vegan cooking.

I love the process of cooking. Being in the moment. Sort of Zen and the Art of Cooking.

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Rosemary, thyme and garlic home made bagels

 

I never knew baking could be so much fun and rewarding. I recently starting making my own bagels and love experimenting with different flavours. Some work and some … well not all are keepers. The big hit for Belle are the Rosemary, Thyme and Garlic bagels and for me it is the Chipotle Chili [...]

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Espresso Chip Oatmeal Cookies

I had borrowed this cook book from the library a while ago and loved quite a few recipes from it. I wrote them down so I wasn’t in a big rush to buy the book. But now we bought the book and have found a new favourite cookie recipe. Belle picked this one out but [...]

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Old Fashioned Pie-Plate Shortbread

This is a very quick and easy baking dish and delicious too! My sister, says "How can you make shortbread without butter?" (She is a cake baker and decorator of the First class and her husband is the president of a large dairy product manufacturer). Believe me this works. This is great shortbread and you [...]

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Happy Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

First let me say that baking is not my strong point. I believe cooking is an art just like the martial arts, it takes years and years of dedicated practice to get good at it. But baking is a mystery. Any tiny little difference in the way it is supposed to be and presto, your [...]

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Vegan Naan Bread

This is a great and easy Naan bread. We love it all by itself and it is perfect with any Indian dish, chili or peanut butter for that matter. I make it on the BBQ but I am sure you could make it in the oven or an indoor grill. My smoke detector would go [...]

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Zucchini-Tahini Bread

Well it had to come to an end, sort of. I finally made a recipe from the Vegan Planet and Hayley said "Hmmm. not really." This is a first. I liked it and Belle liked it and Sean is away at University so he hasn’t had a chance to try it and of [...]

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Mocha Mamas

I love recipes that are complicated with a long list of ingredients but for baking or making snacks, I love these fast recipes. This is another vegan cookie that is fun to make and so easy. The drizzle was supposed to be white but the only “coffee extract” I could find was mocha extract and [...]

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Tibetan Flatbread

This is a dead simple, fast and savoury bread from Jacques Pépin. I have the DVD set but I can’t remember this recipe on it. The book has far more recipes. I happen to see it at the library when I took Dylan for his Unschoolers/Homeschoolers Gym class at the Recreation Centre (the library is [...]

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Spiced Apple-Walnut Muffins

This is a great muffin recipe and they did not last long. Half of them were gone before the 10 minutes of cooling had taken place. You can use a large Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and grated instead of the apple sauce (as per the original recipe) but I did not have any apples [...]

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Five-Spice Chocolate Layer Cake

I really wanted to make a vegan chocolate cake for Hayley (and myself) and found this one in my newest Favourite Cookbook. I was a little worried when I read it contained prunes. Lo and behold it is awesome, prunes and all. I made the "frosting" as per the recipe but it turned [...]

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