Bet you’re thinking “mmmmm, how can I learn to make such delicious, raw desserts?” Well, we have the answer! Join guest instructor Lisa Pitman in the kitchen for a confectionary creation workshop, Raw Desserts, on June 9th! With just seven ingredients, a food processor and ten minutes you can create a cherry concoction that will [...]
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Apr 16th, 2012
We are now officially at the halfway mark of my 10 week cooking program and I must say that having 12 amazing people come by the kitchen once a week to learn, create, cook and dine together is surely the second best part of my job (you know retreats will always take first!). If you have used any of my recipes, you know that they are not always as descriptive as perhaps they should be. I sure learned this lesson in editing my cookbook. Personally, I think that’s what makes them extra super amazingly special. Maybe it’s that I am a Montessori kid and was a given a little freedom in how my edutainment learning was gonna go. All I know is that I have one rule in my kitchen when it comes to cooking. Read the recipe, understand the recipe, then own the recipe.
I’m so home. I can barely remember filling my days with hikes, urban exploring and currency conversions. Actually, that’s a lie. I do remember it. I think about it ALL the time. When I’m sitting infront of computer at work, striving to fix my 42-page table content in Word, I remember the joy of watching whales breach in the Pacific, while eating fresh papaya.
Posted in Dessert, Health, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Mar 26th, 2012
Oh the fun I had making a mess in my kitchen last week. With my book off my plate (for now), my classes humming along, and being all rested with the sun shining, I was inspired to get baking. I am not one of those tidy cooks, as you may have guessed. Recipe creation for me is this mad mess of ingredients, tools, music and dancing. The result is this…
Posted in Bread/Cracker, Dessert, gluten free, Recipe on Feb 18th, 2012
Did you hear the news? We have a new online program! Check it out and play with us on The Gluten-Free Renewal cleanse! Already gluten-free? Join us for Edible Beauty Care this Monday and learn the art of toxic free beauty care! In honour of our BRAND spankin’ new online program, the Gluten-Free Renewal Cleanse, we [...]
Posted in Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Feb 6th, 2012
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
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 Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Oct 25th, 2011
It’s my birthday today. Oh me, oh my. As of today I am a whopping 32 years old. Yep. I always thought by the time I was 32 I’d be all grown up, with a grown up job, maybe running my own little biz, travelling the world, have a sweet man-panion by my side and enjoying other such lovely indulgences as coffee-like dairy-free ice cream, and hopefully not looking a day over 30… maybe even 28.
And by golly gee me, I think I have done it. The abundance is sweetness. And to celebrate my birthday, my besties over at Hamilton Beach Canada are helping me, help you celebrate. We’re giving away an ice cream maker!
Posted in Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Treat on Oct 11th, 2011
Oh my, oh my was this homemade ice cream the most amazing thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. Or in the top 10 for sure.
My bestest friends over at Hamilton Beach Canada sent me the sweetest of gifts and the latest was their 1½ Quart Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Maker. All this time I thought ice cream made in a blender was as good as anything else, but let me tell you- that machine did some magic to our blend of magic.
I was also surprised that there was really not much of a process involved. We blended the goods together in our blender, poured it into our ice cream maker and shazaam alakazaam, a half hour later we were ooing and aahing over the amazing ice creamy creation we had collectively created.
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 Dessert, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Sweet Treats, Treat, Whole Food on Sep 13th, 2011
I was offered a task. It’s one of those tasks that make me want to cartwheel over the kind of tasks that have become part of my job.
My long lost lover, fellow nutritionista, long distance pen pal, around the world adventurer, and momma friend Gabriela, the wordstress and recipe mistress behind the blog The Picky Foodie, emailed me asking if I would play in her cookie games.
Her desire was to for 10 of her food loving/ baking friends from around the fair globe to take her basic cookie recipe and make it our own.
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 Dessert, Event, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Sweet Treats, Vegan, Whole Food on Sep 5th, 2011
How are you enjoying your last day off before we go back to school?
Wait a second? Are you going back to school?
I am, my own school and my face will likely still be smudged with chocolate from today’s cooking demo at Toronto Harbourfront’s Hot and Spicy Food Festival.
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.
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