“Good! Let’s go. Cheers! (Cheers!) Happy Moon Festival! Tradition. Moon Festival. You’re lucky today I watched the Supreme Master Television. Originally I just wanted to cook the pudding for my mother. But I watched the Supreme Master Television and they said, ‘Happy Moon Festival.’ And I said , ‘Oops, my God, all the cakes are gone. I’d better cook something for everybody.’ And that’s how you hav

“We’re cooking a couple of things today. This is artificial shrimp, vegan shrimp, completely without animal trace. Now we wrap them in rice paper and then we deep fry them. It’s finger food. So, remember we put the rice paper quickly into the warm water. Shake it well so it doesn’t get too wet. Cut into two. Half like this. Each half for one vegan shrimp. And the vegan shrimp is very round. So you

“We’re making some traditional Aulacese (Vietnamese) pudding that my mother used to cook for me. We need just some glutinous rice, some call it sticky rice. And we also need some black beans. So we have one cup of these black beans and we have to soak it overnight, it’s the best. We can cover it. Let it boil. The trick is, you can put water in, like a little first, and if you see it’s too thick wh

“It’s summer! And we’re going to have some simple life food. This is an alternative to barbeque. Like when you cannot barbeque because you live in an apartment, and all you have is a balcony, maybe, or a deck outside of your room, and you’re not allowed to barbeque, then you can do something different, like we can fry the stuff.” “We have salad, we have cucumber, we have lettuce here. That

“Hi, everybody. It’s very exciting to show you a quick lunch, or snacks, or dinner. It’s summer and we eat something light and simple. See, I have here cucumber. And some carrots. I’m going to make a cucumber dip.” “I put some salt already in the bowl, sea salt or any salt that you have. Sea salt is a little bit rougher, more original, natural. And I soak it in filtered water for a few minutes, th

“OK, today we're cooking rice noodle snacks or lunch. Quick lunch: nutritious, simple and quick. You can prepare it maybe in around five minutes. I'm boiling water now. We're waiting for the water to boil. Meanwhile, I'm doing something else like washing lettuce, washing tomatoes, washing coriander, and whatever herbs you like to put in.” “The water is already boiling. I’m going to drop the noodle

“We’re going to cook some squash soup. So, we buy a squash like this, about this size or a little bigger. Not smaller. And cut like 2/3 of it. Cut 2/3 of it out. Just keep cutting until it’s out.” “Take the inside and the seeds out completely. So we just have a nice, hollow, clean squash. That’s cool, very cool. Now we use a spoon also, to scrape it all clean inside.” “This kind of soup, you cook

“Hi there. We are going to make some simple mushroom wrap, meaning we are going to wrap some mushrooms into rice paper.” “When you’re cooking, don’t forget to recite the Holy Name. You can recite any Holy Name you like: God, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), Guru Nanak. Any Saint that you revere. Maria, Joseph. Like that, your food will be more nutritious because it’s blessed by

We learned how to make Biscotti with Vegan Spread, and Sweet & Sour Cucumber last Sunday in Part one of this show. Now let’s watch how to fry the seaweed. “Put it on a little low first and in case it burns, you can get used to the temperature, and then you put more and more. Check the oil now. It’s hot enough; I’m going to fry it now. All we do is just get hold of one piece and fry it. You just co

“Today we are going to make another simple, nutritious and delicious meal - namely just seaweed, deep-fried, and white rice, sesame. And also, to combine with it, we will have sweet and sour cucumber, carrot. While waiting for the oil to be heated, I’ll prepare some appetizer.” “These are soya “tranches” (slices). They made it look like those that you are familiar with, except that it’s com

We learned how to make Aulacese (Vietnamese) Savory Congee last Sunday in Part 1 of this show. Now let’s watch how to make Vegan Banana Pudding. “I’m going to show you how to cook the banana pudding. You leave about half of the pan with water and wait until it boils. So we can use this normal, supermarket banana - ripe banana. The other banana we use in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) is harder and shorter. It l

With heartfelt gratitude, we sincerely thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for sharing with us wonderful vegan dishes and easy cooking tips. “OK, today we’re going to cook some Aulacese (Vietnamese) Savory Congee. Congee or rice soup. We have some soya bean sprouts. And we have some rice, already cooked. Or you can cook fresh rice, but this is the best way to use up the leftover rice. You can u

"There you are, we put it in the tray. You have to use your finger to press it down into the hole. Otherwise, it will just hang in the air like this. So you press it down into the mold. Now we can have all kinds of jam to fill it in. And also some mincemeat as well. Strawberry and some marmalade even. You put one teaspoon of jam in there. This is cassis. This is blueberry. So we put mincemeat in h

“Today I’m going to show you how to make mince pies, English style, because it’s almost Christmas. People in England, they make mince pies for Christmas, apart from Christmas pudding and other forbidden sweetness.” “I’m going to mix some flour and salt, just a pinch of salt and flour.” “But in ordinary cases, if you use 225 grams of flour, then you’d use 100 grams of fat, vegetable fat solid.” “Mi

Today, we are lucky to have a glimpse of those days in Yang Ming Mountain in 1992, when Supreme Master Ching Hai set aside Her precious time to demonstrate a simple and aesthetically pleasing dish: “Vegan Bachelor’s Pot.” “Now I’ll show you how to cook. It is very simple. Whatever vegetables that are available, you can throw them in. It doesn’t have to be these particular vegetables. Just similar

Today, we joyfully present Supreme Master Ching Hai’s “Vegan Bread & Butter Pudding.” “You know, sometimes we have a lot of bread leftover, either French bread, French baguette or just normal sliced bread which you don’t want anymore because it’s old and it’s hard. You don’t have to throw it away. You can make it into a (vegan) bread and butter pudding. OK, I’m going to show you how. This is the s

Today, we joyfully present Supreme Master Ching Hai’s “Mushroom Tofu & Chayote Soup.” “Today, we’re going to cook something very simple and easy. OK, we need mushrooms, coriander, pocket tofu, a sweet pepper, one piece of tofu, and chayote. And we need for seasoning: paprika, mushroom seasoning, Maggi or soya sauce.” “I’m going to cook with it now. To begin with, you crumble this tofu. You use you

Today, we joyfully present Supreme Master Ching Hai’s “Aulacese (Vietnamese) Sour Soup, Vegan Ham & White Eggplant.” “OK, we’re going to cook some sour soup, Aulacese (Vietnamese) style. Sometimes, I put three, four kinds of herbs together in one soup. The more herbs, it tastes better. So we’ll put coriander in, and the special Rice paddy herb，together and soak it in saltwater for disinfecting it,

“If we want to bring about Heaven on earth, we must live like the beings from Heaven, which is to live harmoniously, respecting everyone’s freedom and right to life.” Supreme Master Ching Hai encourages and promotes veganism as the noble way of living. She personally designed the Alternative Living flyer and launched a global campaign to share this peaceful and loving message to the world. Through

Hi, everyone! It's summer. We're going to make somthing nice for summer. Here’s apple and banana, orange, some grapes, kiwi, melon, and watermelon. So, I’m going to cut them into very small pieces. You can put them in a blender; it’s quicker also. And if you don’t have a blender, you chop them as fine as you want, and then you can deep freeze them, and after two hours or so, you can take them out