Victoria and Christopher are a vegan couple from Montreal, Canada. They like to share their ardour for vegan cooking and scrumptious recipes for others to take pleasure in on their standard weblog and Instagram Eh Vegan!
Inform us a bit about yourselves!
We’re Vic and Chris, from Montreal, Canada. We spend our time cooking, travelling, and hanging out with our husky, Blizzard. We’ve got a ardour for veganism and we love animals, so hopefully, a few of what we love about this offers you somewhat increase should you want one 🙂
When did you begin your Instagram web page @ehvegan and what impressed you to start out?
We began in Might 2016. We might been vegetarian some time, and struggled sticking with veganism. After a visit to LA, the place veganism is so frequent, we determined to strive once more and keep it up. We began the Instagram account to carry ourselves accountable and encourage others to do the identical.
What are the most important challenges and biggest rewards of being a meals/life-style blogger?
Creating content material is hard! It takes time to prep, shoot, and edit all of our images. And we hardly eat heat meals. And we’re these annoying folks at eating places. Oh properly, comes with the gig! The best reward is all the brand new folks we have met. It is wonderful how sturdy the vegan group is on Instagram. We have turned so many on-line connections, into actual life meetups and made lifelong pals due to it!
We are able to inform you guys adore animals! Is that this a part of your motive for main a vegan life-style?
It is actually the one motive we went vegetarian, after which the one motive we went vegan. It was such an eye-opening second to abruptly understand that we causes we went vegetarian, had been the very same causes to go vegan. Now, wanting again, I am unable to even think about residing any in another way than this.
You might be recognized amongst the Instagram foodie group for the enjoyable and provoking messages you create in your smoothie bowls, made out of fruit! How did this all begin?
Vic says she had a dream and wakened desirous to make phrase bowls lol. Our first one was Good day 2017. It bought plenty of love and we thought we may be on to one thing folks would take pleasure in, so we began to search out methods to encourage folks with phrase bowls. Now we do make sassy toast too, as a result of you may’t all the time be inspiring!
Your images are all the time styled so properly, what ideas and tips are you able to share to help in creating such nice photos?
Gentle mild, child! (say à la Vanilla Ice). Significantly although, we’re all in regards to the pure mild. Anytime we’ve mornings off, we’re capturing content material proper by our home windows, utilizing white boards to bounce mild and decrease shadows. The remainder is taking part in with the shot by means of the lens of the digital camera, not simply your eye. It’s essential know what the digital camera sees. A tripod will help with that.
We all know you’re passionate travellers, what are your prime three favorite locations?
Hawaii is a good looking place. So inexperienced, attractive oceans, unimaginable wildlife! Sea turtles for days! There have been loads of vegan choices the place we visited in Maui and Oahu North Shore. Belize is a spot we solely bought to spend a day, however it was one of the stunning ones we have ever spent anyplace. Such fantastic, heat folks and once more, wonderful wildlife. Snorkeling with rays and nurse sharks is one thing you always remember. Switzerland will spherical out the highest 3. There’s a lot historical past, it does not really feel crowded. The panorama varies a lot from area to area, however the Alps are with out query the spotlight. We spent 10 days in numerous elements of the nation and might’t wait to return.
You serve up some fairly wonderful dishes in our Coconut Bowls! What has been your favorite to date?
Buddha bowls all day lengthy. Rice, noodles, quinoa. Tofu, tempeh, soy protein. Veggies, veggies, veggies. And sauce! Often one thing tangy/candy. We love constructing bowls. Did you suppose we had been gonna say smoothie bowls? 😉
What’s your favorite factor about your coconut bowls?
They more durable to interrupt than porcelain bowls! 😀 However truly, to have the ability to use one other eco-friendly possibility within the kitchen is nice. We’re reducing increasingly plastic and new merchandise filled with packaging from our life. Coconut bowls are such a pure match.
We’re so excited to have one among your recipes included in our new cookbook ‘Vegan Bowls for Vegan Souls’. Inform us in regards to the recipe you selected and what it means so that you can be aside of the e-book?
Vegan mac and cheese is a recipe that helped us transition. It happy a variety of cravings and stored on the wagon till we may ditch the dairy habit. It is such a comforting meals, and we’re all the time hopeful that it is a recipe folks could make many times, with out feeling like they’ve needed to give something as much as reside this manner.
Thanks, Vic & Chris! Huge love from Coconut Bowls ❤
Be impressed and comply with their journey over at @ehvegan