This is Nourish Your Soul Week. We are well in to summer and it is time to start enjoying it. This week is dedicated to just that, enjoyment of life. All week I will posting about things- music, books, people, and lots of other goodness that Nourishes my Soul. What nourishes you? I love this [...]
Posted in Weekly Recap on Jul 11th, 2009
Well in to Summer now! At long last it seems that summer heat has landed on Toronto’s doorstep and I am now focusing my energy on evening out the awfully awkward tan that accompanies getting around by bicycle in the summer months. As it heats up outside, it cools down in my kitchen. With my [...]
Posted in Cleansing, Disease Prevention, Health, Nutrition, Smart Choices, Wellbeing on Apr 21st, 2009
Day Three! Get through today and you are Green Cleanseing Home Free!!! And now a story. About a month ago, I was at this community-based dinner that happens every couple of weeks. I think they are great in concept but I am not really a huge fan personally. I sort of feel like they are [...]
Now, I am not one to brag but I must say, I might just have the most amazingly inspiring, motivating, ambitious, creative, and beautiful group of female friends. (Guys where are you? Many of us are looking for a fantastic man just like you!). The reason my girlfriends are so one-of-a-kind is because the bar [...]
Posted in Health, Nutrition, Recipe, Sauces, Vegan, Veggie Protein on Jan 29th, 2009
Tempeh is fermented soy beans. The way it works is with the Rhizopus mold which binds the soybeans into a compact white cake. Now stop your cringeing and read on as this is a super delicious and healthful food. Now don’t go getting your soy-fearing-knickers in a bunch over my calling a soy-based food healthful. [...]
Posted in Announcements, Disease Prevention, Health, Holistic, Nutrition, Smart Choices, Snack, Video, Wellbeing on Jan 19th, 2009
And here concludes what I am affectionately referring to as Season 1 of Making Love In The Kitchen. Together we have learned the ways of the farm, cleansed some cupboards, made pumpkin soup in costume, tossed black licorice into a fire, toured my grandmother’s freezer, blended up some nut milk, past out apples to strangers, [...]
Posted in Event, Holistic, Nutrition, Recipe, Smart Choices on Dec 17th, 2008
The holiday parties are in full swing, and I know from the feedback I’ve been receiving from clients, it is a tough time to stick with any sort of healthy diet, especially when invited over to someone’s house for dinner. But don’t you worry my sweet nutrition train riders, I have a solution! Bring your [...]
Posted in Announcements, Event, Happiness, Holistic, Nutrition, Smart Choices, Wellbeing on Dec 15th, 2008
Are you ready for this? Here it goes. The Best Holiday Health Tip Ever… Skip the mall!!! During the holiday season, shopping malls are the worst places to be. They are crowded, everyone is stressed and sweating from having to fight the crowds all while wearing a winter coat indoors. The mall sweats are the [...]
Posted in Event, Happiness, Health, Holistic, Nutrition, Recipe, Smart Choices, Video, Wellbeing on Dec 6th, 2008
You want to be my friend now. I know you do. And it’s okay because lots of people do, if only so that I will feed them. Last weekend I had a pre-holiday healthy food soiree with my girlfriends. I am not one to bring people together from all the different worlds I inhabit, but [...]
In Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, he is telling his reader to stop being so paranoid about macronutrients (those would be fats, carbs and proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and instead just get back to the basics and eat what our grandmothers would recognize as food; that means no [...]
Posted in Green, Health, Nutrition, Recipe, Video, Wellbeing on Sep 21st, 2008
Welcome to my shiny new blog. For those of you coming over from The Healthy Cookie, I hope you didn’t miss me too much over the Summer, but rest assured, I am back. For those of you who are new to me and what I do, allow me to explain. I have, what I consider, [...]
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