Right? What did I tell you my little homegirls and pancake loving men? Nothing, NOTHING beats a lazy Sunday morning with chocolate covered chocolate pancakes and a side of steamed apples, blueberries and green tea. Before I get into the greatness of this breakfast, I want to just drop a little note in to say that some things are a changing around these parts and some might just affect you. Come on back tomorrow for the announcement. And moving along… Last weekend, up North at the cottage (remember where we were loving all over the wild food), I got to work wooing my fiancé (ha! second use so far on the blog) with brand shiny new recipes. I tell you, if the way to my heart is through beaches and bicycles the way to EVERYONE’s heart is through chocolate for breakfast.
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Posted in Breakfast, gluten free, Recipe on Mar 5th, 2012
Happy Monday sunshine and sparkles! I am bursting at the seems to tell you all about the field trip I took with Lisa Borden to visit a major supermarket’s ‘health’ event. But alas- I am off, off and away this week and so that kind of goodness must wait.
Today, I will share the most amazing porridge there ever was. Our beloved intern Sondi “Please Don’t Leave Us” Bruner, cooked this up for us last week in honour of the Gluten-Free Cleanse. Sondi had asked me, in her sweet way, if I’d ever had a buckwheat porridge before. I hadn’t. Mainly because 1) I hadn’t thought of it and 2) I rarely have cooked breakfasts these days (juices and smoothies are my flavours of choice). The sound of it though- a coconut buckwheat porridge warmed me right down to my its and bits way deep inside my coldest toes. In other words, I was all set to be the taster.
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Posted in gluten free, Health, Podcast on Feb 21st, 2012
Ditching The Wheat Belly and Muffin Top. Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist practicing out of Milwaukee is working with his patients to reverse heart disease, and loads of other degenerative health problems that go with it, by doing an amazing this- working with their diet. As Dr. Davis explains: I’m not promoting drugs, fancy medical procedures, or costly equipment. I’m not promoting a process that makes a pharmaceutical company rich or helps a hospital gain more revenue-producing procedures. I’m talking about a simple change in diet that yields incredible and unexpected health benefits in so many more ways than you’d think. And it’s not just about celiac disease, the destructive intestinal disease from wheat gluten that affects 1% of the population. It’s about all the other destructive health effects of wheat consumption, from arthritis to acid reflux to schizophrenia, caused or made worse by this food we are advised to eat more of. It’s about being set free from the peculiar appetite-stimulating effects of the opiate-like compounds unique to wheat. It’s also about losing weight–10, 20, or 30 pounds is often just the start–all from this thing I call wheat belly. The key to understanding wheat’s undesirable effects is to recognize that the total effect on human health is greater than the sum of its parts.
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We have a super special recipe, including a video for you on the best ever Gluten-Free Pizza Crust. Why? Because, today is the official launch of our AMAZING brand new online program The Gluten-Free Renewal Cleanse. Our pre-registration sale went so well that we sold out of the pre-reg spots on Saturday. We have just 50 more spots opening this morning at 10 am EST. Prices will go up tomorrow, so be lickity split and save some moolah.
This program is going to transform not just how you look, but how you feel. There is seriously no simpler way to revamp your energy levels and kick that extra jiggle out the door than to eliminate gluten- and the badass addictive treats that contain it. This is your chance, my love, and there will 99 other people around the world kicking the habit with you.
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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 [...]
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Earlier in the week, at our baking workshop, one of our guests asked the question- “If I’m not gluten-intolerant, is there any point to going gluten-free?” A great and very important question and, with our Gluten-Free Renewal Cleanse coming up, we decided to make that our Quizzle of the Dizzle (translation: question of the day) this week. Gluten in food is a lot like mortar (the kind you use to bind bricks together). It’s thick and clumpy and makes things bind, holds them down, clumps stuff up- and that’s about it.
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Posted in Announcements, gluten free, Health on Feb 13th, 2012
Join me in the chant! “Gluten-free renewal. Gluten-free renewal. Gluten-free renewal!” Are you ready to rock this with us? I know you have it in you. Gluten is seriously one of the tougher predators to eliminate from our life, and maybe most important. It is hiding in everything and that is just the problem. You don’t need to be celiac or test positive in the medical world to be totally and completely unhappy inside when gluten enters. Here’s the thing- gluten is like paper mache glue. What’s gluten, you ask? It’s a protein found it grains like wheat, barley, spelt, kamut and rye, and it’s taking us down the road to not-so-awesome illness. Gluten is like glue – and it gunks up our insides and affects the way we digest, think and feel. The way I see it, unless you’re feeling like your health is 100% awesometown, then there is work to be done.
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Delicious, gluten-free and vegan muffins made with natural sweeteners. You won’t be able to resist them.
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Posted in Cleansing, gluten free, Health, Holistic, Recipe, Sauces, Smart Choices, Vegan, Video, Wellbeing, Wellness on Jan 31st, 2012
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.
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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.
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Yep- so here I am in St. Lucia, leading my 4th annual Nourish Your Soul Retreat (which, by the way, you might want to get on the wait list for next year), and I still have a tail to share from Hawaii. The story includes tofu pot stickers, of all things. Is there anyone out there that doesn’t love a good dumpling? Nope. I didn’t think so. Why is it that things seem to taste better when wrapped in bundles of dough/rice paper/pasta? I am afraid I don’t have an answer for you. When we were in Hawaii- after a long day of adventuring, we split the drive back to our abode up by stopping for dinner at a raved out veg place. On the menu- tofu potstickers and for some reason, I was all over them. I NEVER eat fried food. I never crave it, never like it and definitely don’t usually want it mixed with tofu. The mere idea s totally barftown. For some reason though- maybe a day in the sun, maybe by mass consumption of odd fruits, maybe the holiday spirit, but I ordered them and they were amazing. And then I kept talking about them to the man… until I had no choice, once home, but to make them.
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Posted in gluten free, Health, Recipe, Snack, Vegan on Jan 18th, 2012
There are many snacks out there that claim to be healthy, but in reality they’re not as virtuous as they seem. What’s a health-conscious snacker to do? Eat roasted chickpeas, of course! These delicious nibblies are crunchy, flavourful and full of beneficial nutrients.
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Posted in gluten free, Health, Holistic, Nutrition, Recipe, Smart Choices, Vegan, Video, Wellbeing, Wellness, Whole Food on Jan 4th, 2012
I have weird collections. It used to be shoes. Now it’s foraged mushrooms, and sea weed. Everywhere I go, I check out the local sea vegetables. People now send me gifts of seaweed from their own fair shores too (feel free!). Nothing, however, has stolen my heart quite like Irish or Sea Moss (twin brothers from different mothers). This unsuspecting superfood has been my top of the charts seller since I started carrying it. Not an easy thing to find but an absolute smoothie essential, if you ask me. Also a top, top, top food to eat to help with all your daily detox efforts. Cleans up the thyroid, sheds radiation, strips the gut of excess mucous buildup and other fine jazz. Makes the drinks so silky smooth, keeps all the goods you throw in there in solution, and heals the gut and thyroid like nothing else. You have been asking for it and at long, long last- I have put together my how-to video for Irish Moss. Now, save your Q’s ’cause I now have your A’s answered. All in this video…
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Posted in gluten free, Health, Nutrition, Recipe on Nov 14th, 2011
We’ve had loads of interns and extra special helpers pass through this here fair kitchen of ours over the last three years. What I have come to discover is that each and everyone is special in her own unique way (yes, they have all been women). They each have their own area of expertise and interest and all seem to develop a fixation on a certain thing. I feel sad to say that I passed along my secret crush on rice cakes to Jill. I hear her crunching all the time even though we all know they should be just a once in a while thing.
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Friends and lovers. It’s that sweet, sweet time again.
That time where my dad comes over to the kitchen, we paint cat whiskers on our face as we dress up as Halloween Cats.
In the past, you have seen us as Cat Burglars, Cool Cats, and Jungle Cats. This year we went for a Mexican Cat theme makes almost no sense at all but since my dad and I have this ability to take an idea and run with it- we ran and no one caught up with us to tell us it made no sense. In fact, even my dad and I didn’t notice that it made no sense until we actually started filming- wondering what cats had to do with Mexico and what Mexico or cats had to do with brownies or pumpkin. Love us simply for our stream of consciousness and creativity.
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