One year really just passes in a blink of an eye. One blink of experiences and learning that moulds you to the person you are right now, which most certainly has blossomed from the person you were previously. We have gathered our favourite and most popular recipes on our blog, as well as a compilation of our favourite memories in 2016.
1. Top recipe of 2016
We still dream about these to-die-for tacos. With cornflake-crusted tofu and a colourful slaw, they’re worth making everyday taco Tuesday.
2. Most pinned recipe
Vegan Green Goddess Pasta Salad
This recipe brings me back to summer, when the trees and herbs are verdant and lush. Pasta salad is a quintessential picnic food and this one tops the charts with it’s healthy avocado dressing. You’ll feel like a glowing goddess after eating this.
3. Most popular recipe on Instagram
There are sad soggy sandwiches and there are extravagant stacked beauties like this glazed tofu sandwich. Lunches will never be lame when they involve such a stunner.
4. Facebook favourite
Vegan Purple Sweet Potato Tapioca Pudding
We still can’t get over how pretty this shade of purple is! Tapioca pudding is a super easy no-bake dessert that can be made in advance if you’re ever preparing for guests. It’s also less *basic* than a chia seed pudding.
5. Our personal picks from 2016
Chew’s pick: Vegan Animal Style Fries
Major summer withdrawals, but these animal fries can be made any day of the year and they are phenomenal every time. I just can’t ever get enough.
Leung’s pick: Vegan Gingerbread Cinnamon Buns
Fluffy rolls of bread fresh and hot from the oven. Flavoured with Christmas spices and topped with a luscious vegan cream cheese frosting. Nothing better than that. Absolutely nothing. I could eat these 365 days of the year.
BONUS: Memory recap of 2016
- Being the first customers of the day at Purebread Whistler and barbarically eating an entire loaf of chocolate cherry bread in one sitting, then repeating the same routine for another 3 days.
- Reaching the top of Panorama Ridge and seeing the most beautiful blue lake
- Swing roping into a glacial lake and emerging as a popsicle
- Finding a dried up yellowed broccoli floret in Chew’s oven mitt
- 3am chats evaluating our lives and looking into future possibilities on a school night
- Biting into the best vegan chocolate-filled donut ever at Cartems Donuts
- Cereal sampling (eating 5 types of cereal) for breakfast on thanksgiving weekend
- Heading to the pumpkin patch and picking our perfect pumpkins… twice
- Making our own fancy all-white backyard dinner happen with our best friends
- Thinking of the idea of “Oh Llama” as a probable (by probable I mean like 99% certain) storefront name for our future bakery while we were on a bus
- Ordering 3 vegan pizzas and eating them all… plus a giant scoop of ice-cream
- Hiking up Garibaldi Lake with the biggest group of hikers ever to exist (with ages probably ranged from 18-60)
- Playing “water polo” in a tiny pool on a rainy day in Whistler
- Camping at Alice Lakes for 3 nights with our beloved Castle Family
- Playing with sidewalk chalk and pretending we were in the Rio Olympics
- Chocolate buffet-ing on Valentine’s Day because boys are just an abstract idea
- Having deep talks in public shower stalls, and having a lady waiting outside thinking we were dutch the whole time we were talking
- Biking across Vancouver in the summer rain and having a playground pitstop at 9am. Who knew children’s ziplines were so fun?
Every moment, good or bad, has made 2016 an unforgettable chunk of my lifetime. Thank you Leung for putting up with the times I was down, grumpy, and feeling off. And to everyone else (you know who you are), thank you for all these wonderful memories I will cherish forever. 2016 would have been very different without all of you, and I would not change a single moment of this year because it has brought to where I am. Sometimes I feel that I’ve gotten nowhere in life (i.e. when I get crumbs on my eyebrow all day and don’t notice); that’s when reflection can be so good. Every small stride counts, and life is kinda ironic… it takes sadness to know happiness, takes noise to appreciate silence, takes absence to value presence. I have smiled, cried, laughed, and lived 2016… I am so blessed and my heart is so incredibly full <3 -Chew
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