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/2011/09/27/stress-reducing-latte-recipe/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/27/stress-reducing-latte-recipe/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:00:29 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=11359 For those of you have joined our 21 Days To Health Challenge, no matter where you are at in it, you likely skipped ahead and noticed the bit where you're supposed to cut out caffeine. Now, before you start asking all kinds of questions about whether caffeine is really so bad for you, I will say Yes, yes it is. Caffeine, unless taken up the bum (yes, that's what I said), will work against each and every one of your physical, and emotional goals. You can read all about it here, but to summarize: ]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/27/stress-reducing-latte-recipe/feed/ 21 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this-2/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this-2/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:00:19 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=11107 Do I really even have to answer that? Really? Do I? No. Because it's obvious. The berries! A standard breakfast, so commonly a go-to, is granola and yogurt (or your fave nut milk), and a splash of berries. Why not turn that equation upside down and inside out? Make the berries the main attraction!]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this-2/feed/ 5 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:00:19 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=11107 Do I really even have to answer that? Really? Do I? No. Because it's obvious. The berries! A standard breakfast, so commonly a go-to, is granola and yogurt (or your fave nut milk), and a splash of berries. Why not turn that equation upside down and inside out? Make the berries the main attraction! ]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/09/06/whats-the-best-part-of-granola-this/feed/ 4 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/22/recipe-cinnamon-bun-gluten-free-dairy-free-yeast-free/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/22/recipe-cinnamon-bun-gluten-free-dairy-free-yeast-free/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:00:07 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=10996 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.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/22/recipe-cinnamon-bun-gluten-free-dairy-free-yeast-free/feed/ 16 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/05/smoothie-recipe-breakfast-cherries-2/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/05/smoothie-recipe-breakfast-cherries-2/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:00:35 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=10829 What a delicious (literally!) week it has been. The man and I escaped the city last weekend to come back up to the cottage for a full week of sunshiny paradise. That's us, by one of our little bunkies enjoying some super powered smoothie loving (recipe down below).]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/08/05/smoothie-recipe-breakfast-cherries-2/feed/ 9 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/07/27/grain-free-raw-granola-and-hot-summer-loving/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/07/27/grain-free-raw-granola-and-hot-summer-loving/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:00:38 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=10735 The summer is on faya! As we way too quickly approach the halfway mark of this sweet, sweet summer, I sit here thinking- where on earth has it gone? The last week, as I have been busy as ever riding this healing train after that accident last week (And thank you so, so, so much for your love and healing vibes- they're working over time, let me tell you!), the last thing I've felt like doing is spending hours in the kitchen cooking. I know you hear me, my sweet outdoor sunshine lovers!]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/07/27/grain-free-raw-granola-and-hot-summer-loving/feed/ 21 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/05/24/i-made-a-quiche-like-for-real-this-time/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/05/24/i-made-a-quiche-like-for-real-this-time/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 10:00:58 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=10069 According to Wikepedia a quiche is defined as follows: A quiche is an oven-baked dish made with eggs and milk or cream in a pastry crust. Usually, the pastry shell is blind-baked before the other ingredients are added. Other ingredients such as cooked chopped meat, vegetables, or cheese are often added to the egg mixture before the quiche is baked. Quiche is generally an open pie (i.e. it does not include a pastry covering), but may include an arrangement of tomato slices or pastry off-cuts for a decorative finish. Quiche may be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, depending on local customs and personal tastes. Some of you just weren't buying my last attempt at a quiche- or what I was calling a quin-iche which was really quinoa mixed with some egg and cooked veggies and baked in a muffin cup. Whatever to all you hatas!!! But you got me thinking. And you got me thinking as to why I was so resistant to the idea of a real quiche (as defined above). Now lets leave out the cream and cooked meat bits for a moment and I will tell you a brief story with a diarrhea ending. As many of you know, I have never really taken cooking lessons before I started teaching them (Don't tell my Marilyn Denis producer that okay?) I took about 12 hours of cooking classes while in nutrition school- but that was more along the lines of making beet kvas and how to sprout rye to run it through a meat grinder to bake into sprouted buns on a ceramic tile that faced the north with the wind blowing from the south and to be eaten while balancing on one foot staring at the sun. Basically- we learned very traditional cooking but that still didn't help me to know what I should eat for breakfast.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2011/05/24/i-made-a-quiche-like-for-real-this-time/feed/ 20 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/23/ode-to-jen-and-her-super-holiday-nog/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/23/ode-to-jen-and-her-super-holiday-nog/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:00:44 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=7804 My assistant Jen is obsessed with sea moss. One of the many things I love about her. Jen and I spend hours upon hours together when she is working in the kitchen with me. She cleans up after my Tazmanian Devil style cooking binges and makes me laugh, really hard. On days when I have a class, we spend a good 12 hours together, keeping things going.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/23/ode-to-jen-and-her-super-holiday-nog/feed/ 11 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/20/oatmeal-banana-bread-recipe/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/20/oatmeal-banana-bread-recipe/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:17 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=7645 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.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/12/20/oatmeal-banana-bread-recipe/feed/ 11 http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/10/27/pumpkin-pie-porridge-recipe/ http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/10/27/pumpkin-pie-porridge-recipe/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:00:03 +0000 Meghan Telpner http://meghantelpnerblog.com/?p=6938 Yes, it is that time of year again. I can’t believe it is already the third year that my father and I have put on ridiculous costumes, looked at each other and laughed hysterically, and then attempted to cook something together. Given my great pumpkin harvest at the orchard a few weeks back, I had pumpkins galore to work with.]]> http://meghantelpnerblog.com/2010/10/27/pumpkin-pie-porridge-recipe/feed/ 26