Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Recipe, Smart Choices on Feb 4th, 2012
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 [...]
Posted in Appetizer, Bread/Baking, Dessert, Healthy Treats, Inspiration, Smart Choices on Jan 28th, 2012
Calling all lovers of the good life! Live my creed – ya know, flirting with farmers, crunching on carrots, riding bicycles covered in flowers – then why haven’t you entered this yet?
Don’t know what to make this weekend? Three great dishes to get you through the week and have fun making them now. And of course- dessert comes first. Enjoy!
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Oct 10th, 2011
A few weeks ago, the team here participated in an event called Soupalicious. The preparation for this involved us cooking up 20 litres of soup. By the end of that weekend we were totally souped out. And then soome. Now, weeks later, we are still haunted by it for 3 reasons.
1) We still have 14 liters of soup in the fridge.
2) It still smells like curry in the kitchen.
3) We still have a box of juice monkey onions, 2 fart-worthy cauliflowers, one lonely old leek, and a big ol’ bag of carrots with no place to go. After giving most of it away at a workshop…and frankly to anyone on the streets who would take it, I decided to take a couple carrots home and turn them into something magical. And ooooh boy that I did.
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Happiness, Health, Healthy Treats, Inspiration, Wellbeing, Whole Food on Sep 14th, 2011
It all started with my friend, Ashley. You could, in fact, call her my gluten-free muse! You see, Ashley follows a gluten-free and vegan lifestyle (which, as Meghan Telpner is fond of saying, has cured an incurable disease – Crohn’s). And when you are vegan and gluten-free, you can have some challenges around finding versions of your former favourite foods. One of these for Ashley, was bread. She could find breads she could eat at our amazing local health food stores, but they were often expensive. Or full of things like ‘potato starch’. And when you started out eating lovely unrefined whole grains, why would you want to switch over to white bread substitutes?
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, gluten free, Healthy Treats, Sweet Treats, Vegan on Sep 11th, 2011
Everyone loves home baked cookies. And they really don’t take much time at all.
You mix the dry. Chop a little chocolate. Throw a couple blobs of cookie dough on a parchment lined cookie sheet. And just like that, fresh home baked cookies are served!
Posted in Bread/Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, gluten free, Health, Recipe, Vegan on Aug 22nd, 2011
When I took the bus to school in high school, I had to pass through the Yonge/Eglinton Subway station. Inside was a Cinnabon. For those of you who live outside the 30 countries where thay are now located, or managed to avoid shopping malls your whole life (and for that I would envy you), Cinnabon is the sweetest smelling cinnamon bun bakery there ever was. They are steamy hot, oooey, gooey, chewy and dripping in the sweetest icing.
And passing through the building, smelling these at 3:30pm on a daily basis was torture. To my cravings and to my bum size. According to online sources, one Cinnabon contains 800 calories.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Happiness, Health, Sweet Treats, Weekly Recap, Wellbeing on Aug 19th, 2011
Is this what weekends are like for non-biz owners? Where you get to come home at the end of the day on Friday and play all weekend long to your heart’s content? On Monday I asked what you were doing to squeeze the last bits out of summer (though I may have used the words testicles and tittles somewhere in that paragraph).
Last weekend I had the whole weekend to play. Things are about to get chaotic. VERY chaotic to say the least so the J-Man and I set out for some fun. I get oodles of requests to post my ‘daily eats’, which as I have said, is not really something I want to post about. Snooze fest I’m sure plus trying to eat what someone else eats is a bit like trying to squeeze into someone else’s panties. Slightly uncomfortable and perhaps a little icky.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Aug 8th, 2011
Pourquoi tout est mieux en français? And now I will ask in English? Why is everything better in french? Fries, bread, kisses, toast? Make’em french! (By the way, when I asked the man for words that started with french, he immediately volunteered ‘maid’- I stopped asking after that).
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Jul 25th, 2011
Sometimes in life, we just need a blueberry muffin.
Or maybe it’s scrambled eggs and toast, a warm cup of milk (hemp of course), mac and cheese (with squash maybe), or perhaps a slice of the best cheeseless cheese cake there ever was.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Health, Healthy Treats on Apr 28th, 2011
Having a cookie for breakfast has to be every kid’s dream, though usually our parents don’t allow us such a treat. As adults, we can make the choice to indulge in a sickeningly sweet chocolate chip filled delight before lunchtime; only to crash from a sugar high in mere hours. So usually most of us responsible grown-ups choose to skip riding the blood sugar wave and pick a more nutritionally balanced start to our day. But most of us are also very busy, and as good as a warm bowl of oats is, sometimes the effort outweighs the taste and we end up grabbing something less than stellar on the way out the door. After all, we wouldn’t want a lengthy breakfast preparation to take away from our pre-work blogging time. A cookie sounds pretty nice right about now, right?
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Recipe, Treat on Mar 24th, 2011
I was really excited to make these. The original recipe is by the delightful queen of clean, green, simple and brilliant recipes, Elana Amsterdam of Elana’s Pantry, who I had the pleasure of interviewing last Spring. Her recipes always inspire!
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, gluten free, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Mar 15th, 2011
I swear to my mismatched stripey socks that if I see another root vegetable recipe or some creative concoction of squash I am going to throw my spatula out the window and light my aprons on fire. I done with winter cooking. Done I say. DONE! Are you listening???
It is time to bring in some spring. I am ready for the first harvests. I want some new kale, I want some wild leeks, I want Spring earth mother lovers. Spring.
This is where my man would look at me and say, “Why stress over what you can’t change”. Or even more annoying, when I am pouting like a school girl who’s knee highs won’t stay up, he’ll say “Use this as an exercise”. Well I won’t goodness darnnit. I won’t.
So to soothe my soul because the boob-like shape of buttrnut squash no longer amuses me the way it did when it was fresh and new back in the fall, I decided to make one last ditch ever to find some love in my heart for this cancer fighting, immune boosting, fibre-tastic fruit that everyone thinks is a vegetable and turn it into something we all know and love.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Smart Choices, Sweet Treats on Mar 10th, 2011
A year and a month ago, I announced the birth of my sweet niece, Mia Jean, in a post entitled Cookies For Mia Jean. The gist of it was that all the rules go out the window as you fall head over heels in love with something so pure as fresh from the oven babyness.
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Feb 9th, 2011
Now aren’t these just gorgeous!?!?! Like really glowingly beautiful in all their vibrant redness. I was so excited about this baking adventure for many reasons. I was going to use fresh grated beets in the batter, I was going to use millet in a muffin for the first time. I had some fresh cranberries in there and I was so psyched that I was going to have the most amazingly unique valentine’s day recipe ever.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Sweet Treats, Treat on Jan 27th, 2011
Everyone loves home baked cookies. And they really don’t take much time at all.
You mix the dry.
Chop a little chocolate. This was Green and Blacks dark chocolate with crystallized ginger in it.
Throw a couple blobs of cookie dough on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
And just like that, fresh home baked cookies are served.
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