I’m Jeeca (that’s actually short for Jessica) and I’m a food content creator and recipe developer passionate about creating easy yet tasty and flavour-packed vegan recipes. I share a lot of Asian recipes inspired by my travels and those I grew up enjoying.

It all started with my Instagram account thefoodietakesflight in April of 2015. I was fresh out of high school with a long summer break ahead of me and created the account as way to document the vegan food I was cooking at home. This all really began merely as a passion project that I worked on on the side throughout university. I’ve always had a deep appreciation for food, which I thank my parents for, since they exposed me to different cuisines and cultures very early on. I consider myself a foodie (having come from a family of foodies) while the taking flight part, is partly a mix of my love for travel and a symbolism of leaving my comfort zone (or the comforts of home or ‘nest’ as I should say)—hence the name The Foodie Takes Flight.

My love for cooking stemmed from an early age of watching people around me at home cook and also from the countless cooking shows I watched growing up. I taught myself a lot of what I know now, but also picked up a lot of tricks from my mother and grandmother who both love to cook. I found being in the kitchen very therapeutic and a perfect way to get my mind off the pressures of school. I really enjoyed (and still do, of course) experimenting in the kitchen and challenging myself by working with plant-based ingredients like tofu, mushrooms, beans, and turning these into dishes that would mimic those I love. I’d then take photos of the food I’d make, write about these, and share the recipe whenever I could.

Because of all that transpired over the first few months of starting my Instagram account, I discovered my passionate for cooking, creating, and sharing my recipes—and needless to say, I kept doing so over the next few years and really fell in love with what I was doing. I continue to share my creations and recipes in hopes to inspire others that vegan food can be delicious and approachable.

I also try my best to use as simple, easily accessible, and affordable ingredients as I can for my recipes so that anyone, no matter in which part of the world they live in, can be able to make these.

I’m really beyond grateful to all the amazing individuals I’ve met in this space over the years so thank you for being here and for joining me along on this journey.

I hope you enjoy my recipes as much as I love creating and sharing them.