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.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Bread/Cracker, Health, Inspiration, Recipe on Jan 12th, 2011
Happy Wednesday my healthy-food-lovers and healthy-food-lover-wannabes. What a perfect day to bake some bread.
Really? Is it though? Why does today become the perfect day to bake bread when the perfect day has yet to come along in the last 31 or so years? Well, I actually made this amazing fresh baked loaf of bread over the holidays when I had time to play in my kitchen and read other people’s blogs, something I LOVE to do, when time permits me the luxury.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Health, Recipe on Jan 4th, 2011
For those of your embarking on the 21 Days To Health program this Saturday with me, you have noticed that little pesky change being recommended on Day 15, where we say Nope To The Scary White Powder. You might be thinking that no white flour and no white sugar means no fun sweet treats in the kitchen. Let these brownies be exhibit A. And let this be your persuasion:
Posted in Bread/Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Health, Recipe, Smart Choices, Whole Food on Dec 20th, 2010
Aside from my father, who’s throat has the potential to close allergic reaction style at the mere sight of a banana, is there anyone who doesn’t love a good loaf of BB?
While I was travelling in Africa six or seven lifetimes ago and staying with my friend Matt, we had this brain wave to make some banana bread. Within 26 seconds we were in the back of a taxi, going to a local ‘supermarket’ to find all we needed to make the perfect banana bread.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Recipe, Whole Food on Oct 26th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I escaped the city with a gaggle of girls (and the men that stick close to us) to an orchard that was ripe with raspberries, apples, squashes and fresh corn on the cob. I came home with loads of freshly harvested squashes (recipes to follow soon) and indulged in a little fresh off the land, corn on the cob. Corn is a tricky thing for me to eat. Not because it gets all stuck in that annoying wire I have cemented to the back of my top and bottom teeth, but because it is like my fear food.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Recipe, Smart Choices, Vegan, Wellness on Sep 15th, 2010
My dad and I have this ongoing thing about peach pie. I have no idea how it started or where it came from but we put on our best down home southern accents (very lame considering we were both born and raised in the Canadian prairies) and praise our love of peach pie. It goes like this:
Posted in Bread/Baking, Recipe, Vegan on Aug 11th, 2010
Guest Post from Erin Budd. I joined a CSA this year, and so I picked up farm fresh fruits and vegetables of the season once a week right by my house. One nice thing about it is that it forces me to try new things that I would never think to purchase otherwise.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, gluten free, Recipe on Jun 16th, 2010
There are two ways that I come up with recipes.
1. I am bored and want to play and since my home is really a giant kitchen, that is where a lot of playing happens.
2. I bought something thinking I would do something with it, it moves towards the land of rotten and I get desperate and start searching for something to do with it.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Recipe on Jun 9th, 2010
Is there really anything better than cake for breakfast? Not too long ago, I was hosting a private cooking class for a deliciously delightful family. I had sent over the proposed menu for the meal, and received a reply back requesting we have muffins for dessert.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Cleansing, Recipe on May 25th, 2010
Have you picked up your copy of the new tutorial yet? Natural Body Care has arrived! Get your copy! It’s true. Once again, like the salad dressing/facial toner recipe, most of the ingredients in this awesomely delicious banana coconut bread recipe, would make just the most deliciously moisture rich face mask. It is a tough [...]
Posted in Bread/Baking, Health, Recipe, Side Dish, Vegan on Mar 25th, 2010
Now who doesn’t love a good knish- an no the ‘k’ isn’t silent. It’s pronounced “Ke-Nish”.
Knishes, not to be confused with Kamish (which is a cookie) or Kanadalech (Jewish slang for testicles) Knishes are an Eastern European/Jewish dumpling kind of snack. Leave it to the Yigs to mix together white potato, white flour, fill it with cheese and onions fry it in chicken fat and top it with sour cream and call it a ‘snack’. The true definition of a knish is simply a filling covered with dough that is either baked, grilled, or deep fried.
Many cultures have variations on baked, grilled, or fried dough-covered snacks similar to the knish: the Cornish pasty, the Scottish Bridie, the Jamaican patty, the Spanish and Latin American empanada, the Portuguese rissole, the Italian calzone, the South Asian samosa, the Russian pirozhki, and the Middle Eastern fatayer to name a few.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Health, Wellbeing on Mar 23rd, 2010
Now, it is obviously no secret by now how much I love coconut. Its true. I love it so much I might even marry it. Between coconut macaroons, coconut water, coconut chips, coconut milk, coconut in my oatmeal coconut coconut coconut.
And now coconut sugar is making a sweet splash on the sweetener scene.
Palm sugar and coconut sugars. When did these guys appear on the scene? The names of these sweeteners are often used interchangeably, they are not the same thing. Palm sugar comes from the palmyra or sugar palm and coconut sugar comes from the coconut palm,but both are produced from the sweet, watery sap that drips from cut flower buds. It’s like the maple syrup of the palm tree. Like maple syrup, the sap is collected boiled down in huge woks on the plantations until a sticky sugar remains. As is not highly processed like brown sugar, the color, consistency, flavor and level of sweetness can vary from batch to batch, even within the same brand. I love that. This means there is still some nature left in it. Much of this depends on the type of palm trees, time of year when the tree was tapped, and also the heat that was used to reduce the nectar into sugar.
Posted in Bread/Baking, Bread/Cracker, Recipe on Mar 5th, 2010
You may have noticed a theme this week. Between the French Toast Having Wings, King Chaga: Ruler Of The Land, and the old Create Your Own Burger Adventure we enjoyed yesterday. Yep. I have had super foods on the brain as I gear up for the first run of my bran shiny new workshop formerly known as Raw Super Food Power. All week I have been working away at the recipes and info for the two-hour session and have been so inspired by the amazingly delicious ways we can enjoy food as medicine. I don’t know about you but I would so much rather eat a cacao nib filled cookie than pop a magnesium supplement. Food as medicine is one thing, but cookies as medicine… Oh wow!
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