Nice Cream Smoothie Bowls — Two Ways!

In case you didn’t know, “nice cream” is basically frozen bananas blended until it resembles soft serve.
It’s a delicious way to start the day. Here are two nice cream recipes for you to try =)

Have you noticed that the world of food blogging has changed? Sometimes I think that people don’t really read food blogs anymore, because I get much more engagement on Facebook and Instagram than I do here. My research in marketing trends for work has informed me that people don’t bother reading food blogs anymore because they’re too busy. It’s too much effort to read posts when people just want to look at pretty pictures and continue scrolling for more pretty pictures.

I wish I could say those trends are wrong.

But that’s not to say that nobody reads anymore. I feel like a good number of you still read my blog, and for that, I say thank you. You folks motivate me to keep this little space up and going week to week. But for the most part, I continue writing these long-winded posts because it’s an outlet for me.

Some bloggers I know have shifted to blogging full-time: meaning they post 3-5 times a week, pumping out amazing recipes and gorgeous photos, but I can’t help but notice that for some, their writing has been reduced to conversational pitter patter and grammatical nonsense.

It sort of makes sense. After doing so many posts a week, you start to run out of things to talk about. It’s why I stopped posting 2-3 times a week (something I did a couple years ago). I briefly considered doing my blog full-time, but then I was afraid that I’d be like those other full-time blogs that basically blog about blogging. (And I realize the irony because that’s literally what I’m doing right now).

I want this space to document my life in a somewhat interesting way—mostly for me, but also for you, if you choose to read it. I’ve used this blog to figure out my relationships, my personal health, my path to veganism, and my dreams. Considering all I do is work, edit videos, cook food and sometimes photograph it, I feel like my life is a little boring nowadays. Good boring because I feel like I’m finally settling down and that is what I want, but not the most interesting to document.

Now that I have my YouTube channel, I’m able to communicate my personality and life in a different way. Some people commented that they never realized that I was so funny. I guess it’s hard for me to convey that in writing, especially when I’m talking about feelings and whatnot. There are funny writers out there, but that’s not usually my style. Give me a camera, some sort of food as a catalyst, and I’ll have you laughing at my weirdness, but comedic writing is not my forte.

If you haven’t checked out my YouTube channel, please do! And subscribe! Especially if you’re interested in how I live day-to-day as a vegan. There are some pretty intense aspirational vegans out there, who eat super healthy and make beautiful, colourful foods with plenty of exotic fruits and homemade bean burgers or whatever. But I suck at that. I’m lazy and I am a sucker for caving into temptation.

I like to think that my style of eating is basically veganizing my favourite foods—which happen to be pretty delicious comfort foods. I try to show people how easy it is and how fun it can be to eat vegan, while also just being weird in the kitchen. Plus there are tons of vegan products coming out and it’s fun to talk about them. I don’t find it’s always that appropriate to use too many pre-made products on here since not everyone has access to them.

So yes, please subscribe to my channel. I’m trying to hit 1000 by the end of the year and it would mean so much to me if you folks helped me get there.

Recently I conducted a reader survey, and surprisingly those who answered said they wanted more frequent posts. I don’t always have time to develop new recipes—I’m honestly just going back to easy recipes to eat every day like my favourite miso glass noodle soup or fried rice. I have a couple videos recorded with those easy recipes that I just kind of throw together, so the accompanying blog posts with recipes will be coming soon.

In the meantime, if you want recipe inspiration or an idea of how my life is from day-to-day, I overshare about as much on my Instagram as I do here. I know this is sort of a weird meta-post, but it’s how I feel today.

Eddie doesn’t like mango, so I made him a blueberry nice cream bowl while I enjoyed a mango nice cream bowl. I topped it with date molasses (regular molasses, or even maple syrup will do), and some strawberry chocolate granola. You might be skeptical about chocolate and mango but trust me, it’s good.

As always, thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy these recipes =)