http://meghantelpnerblog.com The very best of health inspired recipes, lifestyle tips and best cooking classes in Toronto. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:59:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Making Love in the Kitchen 2010 hello@meghantelpner.com (Meghan Telpner) hello@meghantelpner.com (Meghan Telpner) Health 1440 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/megblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Podcast_Graphic_small.jpg http://meghantelpnerblog.com 144 144 A Podcast For Healthy Living At Making Love In The Kitchen- we talk all things healthy, sweet and fun. It's not just about nutrition but about how healthy living is the vehicle for living the great life. With a different guest each episode- there are always great conversations and insights shared. Nutrition, Cooking, Health, Wellness, Disease Prevention, Fitness, Weightloss, Slow Food, Fun, Humour Meghan Telpner Meghan Telpner hello@meghantelpner.com no no http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/08/orange-almond-coconut-muffins/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/08/orange-almond-coconut-muffins/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:59 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=12950 Delicious, gluten-free and vegan muffins made with natural sweeteners. You won't be able to resist them.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/08/orange-almond-coconut-muffins/feed/ 2 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/07/should-sugar-be-regulated-like-ciggies-and-booze/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/07/should-sugar-be-regulated-like-ciggies-and-booze/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:22 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13074 Should sugar be regulated like other 'drugs' we can so easily get our hands on if we want? This was all over the news last week and I thought I should offer my view. It may surprise many but hear me out on this. The argument in favour goes like this: "Sugar poses enough health risks that it should be considered a controlled substance just like alcohol and tobacco, contend a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)". Read the full Times article here. I opted out of going on to the mainstream news to discuss this because what I really wanted to say isn't what the peeps over in mainstream generally smile upon. Understandably- as it tends to offend a lot of advertisers. Since I don't allow advertisers that I think are part of the problem to advertise, I have no one to please but you, my mom and my dad. So- here are my thoughts.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/07/should-sugar-be-regulated-like-ciggies-and-booze/feed/ 6 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/new-online-program-announcement/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/new-online-program-announcement/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:55:24 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13171 Love my creed and want to shaaaaare the love? Enter the “Living the Creed’ contest and show US how you live the creed…you could win a signature creed poster + a whole bunch of other goodies! Yes! It is true. You think all we do all day is sing and dance and play in the [...]]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/new-online-program-announcement/feed/ 0 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/floating-away-on-this-ice-cream-float/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/floating-away-on-this-ice-cream-float/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:55 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13052 That's right homegirls (and boy or two). I made an ice cream float. I haven't a clue why, in the middle of winter, I suddenly declared that it was ice cream float season. I'm thinking it likely has something to do with all the excitement over my upcoming Gluten + Dairy Free Treats class (yep, a week today!). Or, maybe I was just longing from yonder years when I used to have slumber parties at my grandma and grandpa's house and ice cream floats were the dessert of choice (that or frozen grape bubble gum??? things I will never understand). The floats would be served up in these little black and white cups (and if you come to my kitchen, you might just spot it here). We usually had vanilla ice cream and our float liquid of choice was, of course, root beer. The magic of the float was that you would scoop in your ice cream, pour the soda pop over top and the whole thing would turn into a frothy mug of heaven, topped off with a bendy red and white straw. As I will be sweetly demonstrating in my class next week, eating for amazing health does not mean you have to do away with the treats of yesteryear]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/06/floating-away-on-this-ice-cream-float/feed/ 7 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/04/weekend-recipes-make-these-3/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/04/weekend-recipes-make-these-3/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:18 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13069 Like the sound of an indulgent delights workshop? Of course you do, sweetie! Join us on February 13th for our Gluten + Dairy Free Treats workshop! Beautify from the outside in (and eat it up, too) at our Edible Beauty Care workshop! This weekend is all about snacks. Protein powered, sweet and savoury. Let me know what you [...]]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/04/weekend-recipes-make-these-3/feed/ 2 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/03/2012-st-lucia-retreat-living-the-creed-to-the-fullest/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/03/2012-st-lucia-retreat-living-the-creed-to-the-fullest/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:12 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13022 Another retreat has come and gone. So it goes. I wait all year for this sweet, sweet week of great food, amazing people, sunshine, adventure, learning and most of all- loving. The demand for these weeks of rejuvenation just keep growing and we already have nearly 20 on our wait list for next year! Crazy town. I will keep my words short today and just allow the pics to transport you to the warm tropical breezes. Enjoy! Brunch is always a huge highlight of the day!]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/03/2012-st-lucia-retreat-living-the-creed-to-the-fullest/feed/ 5 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/02/my-manuscript-sits-before-me-and-suddenly-i-hate-post-it-notes/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/02/my-manuscript-sits-before-me-and-suddenly-i-hate-post-it-notes/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:55 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=13002 I am back from St. Lucia with no time to rest. The fun of the photoshoot has come and gone and now it is time to make nice with my computer, highlighters and team over here that will be sailing this biz ship while I hide away. My entire edited manuscript was sitting on my desk when I returned to work yesterday. In case you were wondering what a 73,000 word manuscript looks like.. well here you go.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/02/my-manuscript-sits-before-me-and-suddenly-i-hate-post-it-notes/feed/ 16 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/01/more-funderwear-this-time-readers-digest-styles/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/01/more-funderwear-this-time-readers-digest-styles/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:00:57 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=12972 A sweet, sweet sneak peak at January's readers digest, in which yours truly is asked for tips on cutting out the big bad wolf known as SUGAR!]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/02/01/more-funderwear-this-time-readers-digest-styles/feed/ 1 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/31/wilder-returns-to-play-and-talk-deto/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/31/wilder-returns-to-play-and-talk-deto/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:22 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=12839 What fun I had when Wilder Weir from Oh So Cosmo! (airing on Cosmo TV) came back to the kitchen for a visit. Remember the last time he was here? I flirted my heart out with him and it seemed he wanted to come back for more. On the menu were our kitchen fave veggie rice wraps with almond dipping sauce and our conversation quickly went off course. One moment we're talking flaccid cucumber and the next we chatted 'poo juice' and how pooping makes us pretty. Watch my love sweet lovers. Watch, laugh and learn. I often have a tough time watching myself on TV- but this clip even had me giggling. The peeps at Cosmo did a superfantab job of this segment and now I will just wait by the phone to see if I get called for a magical third date with Wilder. This time, we were talking detoxing.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/31/wilder-returns-to-play-and-talk-deto/feed/ 8 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/30/gordon-ramsay-made-it-so-i-did-too/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/30/gordon-ramsay-made-it-so-i-did-too/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:20 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=12774 I feel like perhaps I am supposed to be embarrassed to tell you that I LOVE Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. I am not sure why. After a day of sunshine and rainbows in the kitchen, where 99.5% of the people who call, or write, or come play in the kitchen are delightful, there is something super fun about kicking back to a flood of F-bombs from old chef GR. What's even more ridiculous about this affection I have for this show is that I don't even have a TV. That means the man has to go hunting for an online version and we huddle together on the sofa to watch it on the micro computer screen. Yep. I've hit it big time for sure. Just wait 'till my episode of Cribs (yes, I used to watch that too). A wild Thursday night watching a crappy British TV show full of cloudy weather and F-bombs on a computer.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2012/01/30/gordon-ramsay-made-it-so-i-did-too/feed/ 9