Posted in Recipe, Side Dish, Sweet Treats, Treat on Jan 21st, 2012
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!
Meghan
Posted in Health, Holistic, Nutrition, Organic, Recipe, Side Dish, Smart Choices, Snack, Veggie Protein, Wellbeing, Wellness, Whole Food on Sep 19th, 2011
After the Vegetarian Food Festival last weekend, I was all soyed out. Seriously! Soy was served up in every little shape and size they could dream up. From icing on cupcakes, to dried out beans covered in sugar and cinnamon, they could almost change the name of the event to the Soy Food Festival.
What did I eat the weekend of the event? I kicked it BYOS- Bring Your Own Salad/Smoothie. Now it’s not that I hate soy… Okay, I do. I do hate it and all the ways it functions like plasticine- getting moulded and blended and cooked and baked into all kinds of things. Soy on it’s own, in it’s whole organic form is a-okay though. I will actually eat it, love it and feel okay after.
Posted in Health, Salad, Side Dish, Veggie Protein, Whole Food on Aug 3rd, 2011
Back in the day, before working and playing in this fine Kitchen, I used to work at an organic grocery store. I had loads of fun but apparently I was the only one who enjoyed that place because it went out of business shortly after I started working there (was it something I did?!)
Posted in Appetizer, gluten free, Health, Recipe, Side Dish on Apr 25th, 2011
Now isn’t this just the most brilliant thing I have come up with since last Friday’s chocolate covered kale chips.
For Passover last week, my momma made a great big beautiful dinner. The main event however was a turkey and I’m not a huge turkey lover. I am well trained in going to other’s homes for dinner and my approach is always to make something super-powered delicious and that can be enjoyed by other guests too of course. So I made these!
Posted in Health, Recipe, Side Dish, Vegan side, Veggie Side, Whole Food on Mar 3rd, 2011
I had a jolly ‘ole lover of a time travelling the isel of St. Lucia and can’t wait to show off some of my pics to you tomorrow. But the one thing I missed most was my kitchen. I missed having access to my clean, organized, pink kitchen and all the familiar tastes that go along with it. I was chomping at the bit, as they say, to get back into it and get cooking.
Posted in Entree, Health, Marilyn Denis, Recipe, Salad, Side Dish, Wellness, Whole Food on Jan 11th, 2011
Soooo? Did you see the show? And?
The theme of the show was detox- kicking our bods into high gear post holidays and when it came to the cooking- we wanted to focus on what goodies were going to help us to shake a little of that junk from the trunk but still keep to the season, keep it whole, nourishing, warming, filling and of course my faves- beautiful and delicious.
Posted in Entree, Health, Recipe, Salad, Side Dish on Jan 3rd, 2011
Now on to the recipe. I want so very bad to post my brand new sweet potato barley brownie recipe but feel like it might be a little too soon post holiday to start throwing sweet treats at you- so I’ll save them until tomorrow. Enough time right?
Instead I have the most amazing whole grain salad ever and this fits in perfectly with our goal for Day 7 of the 21 Days To Health Program: Brown Bagging It.
As I so eloquently explain in the guide,this is one of the easiest and most fun changes to make. It’s easy because all you are doing is bringing food with you to work/school/wherever. It’s fun because you get to be your own little take out restaurant – you can pack it in cute containers and pretend you’re on a picnic.
Posted in Health, Recipe, Side Dish, Veggie Protein, Veggie Side on Dec 15th, 2010
Trying new food is fun. Or at least it should be and it is one of the most fun parts of travelling- getting to try local goodies that are only available far away from home. This of course is therefore not particularly useful to you, but its’ interesting and will definitely pique your curiosity.
Ackee is awesome and I would love to lift it up into the realm of one of my favourite foods but it grows a little too far away for that. If it were eggs that kept me from being totally plant-based in my diet, than ackee would surely be the best solution. Ripe, boiled and then pan fried ackee is like the perfect mix of scrambled eggs meets firm avocado for texture. Forget tofy scramble- ackee fruit sauteed with some onions is the best scrambled egg replacement ever.
Posted in Entree, Holiday, Recipe, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegan side on Oct 4th, 2010
Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend up here in Canada so I thought it my duty to offer you some bird-free dinner options, that could easily and deliciously function as a full meal deals.
Posted in Dips, Disease Prevention, Health, Recipe, Side Dish on Aug 24th, 2010
As not everyone can get the amazing Yogalicious Kefir Ice Cream I wrote about last week, here is a solution. Make your own. Enjoy this guest post from Tara Kelly!
And now for way three I wanted to combine a few of my favourite snack foods. I love Nori, I love a warm cup of miso soup. I think anything with sesame seeds tastes great and tamari can give almost anything a little flair. Oh, and I love kale chips.
That is how I came up with Way Three of my Kale Chips Adventure. I like to call these Macro-Japan Kale Chips. Sea veggies, miso, sesame oil, tamari, sesame seeds- if those are macrobiotic friendly and traditional Japanese foods than… Than nothing, because they are and either way- I make up the rules here.
I’ve been known to work a lot. Yes. It does happen sometimes. And sometimes I will be working all morning, hop out for a little pre-lunch bike ride and come home absolutely famished. I am talking the kind of famished that doesn’t want a smoothie but famished for a chewable meal.
These mushrooms look cooked, right? They really do don’t they? Well they’re not! Nope. They’re marinated raw and this is maybe the simplest recipe I have come up with in ages. It happened, as all my recipes have happened lately, as I was experimenting on things for the new tutorial (available Thursday!)
This one uses the delicious and meaty portobello mushrooms.
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 Recipe, Side Dish, Veggie Side on Feb 17th, 2010
Before you ask, I will tell you: I am not talking about regular Sunday morning potato hash browns. No way potatay. There is a very good reason why my 5 Days Vegan meal plan (come play starting Sunday!) is potato free. It’s because when we change our diets, especially towards a plant based direction, certain things tend to creep in as staples. These things often include bread, pasta and potatoes. Why? Well, they satisfy that carb craving, they are sweet and starchy and man, oh, man are they filling.
I am not into pushing you towards veganism, towards smoothie drinking, towards eating low GI, towards eating more raw, towards cooking from scratch, or knowing where your food comes from as a way to help you support the environment, help you save money, or help save animals. Though for better or worse, all of those things may happen. I introduce you to these new ways of eating to help you get healthier.
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