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!
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How I love California. I have spent such special time there in the last four and a half years. I have been down thrice in the last seven months alone! This last time, however, was extra special as my love sweet love was there with me. Got to show him all my favourite spots, and experience the place that helped me heal, for himself.
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Happy Friday everyone! What a week I had… As I do my best to keep warm I can’t help but spend a little time everyday looking through the heated goodness from the month of retreating I did in St. Lucia. I know everyone loves peeping at pics (isn’t that what Facebook is all about!?)
This week, I wanted to jazz up your Friday by sharing some of the highlights from Nourish Your Soul II. If you missed the highlights from Nourish Your Soul I, you can check them here!
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Holy smokerdoodles bat-ladies and gents! Talk about transitions. Not only did I leap a 50 degree difference between St. Lucia and Toronto when I came back, but I lept worlds!
I remember so clearly coming home from winter holidays as a teenager. My clearest memory was actually in grade 9 gym class. I had come from Jamaica the day before and I recall being in gym class jumping rope on that shiny squeaky floor wishing for all my might that I could be transported back to the beach I had just been ripped away from.
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The windchill has set in and it is that time of year again when our calendars fill with the fun and not-so-fun holiday soirees. We have the work functions, the friend functions, the family functions and then all the ones we get dragged to as someone’s date. ‘Tis the season of holiday cheer and really gross buffets/potluck parties.
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Posted in Herbal Medicine, Poison, Recipe, Salad on Jun 7th, 2010
Kale chips are kinda gearing towards the crack of healthy food addicts. Is that terribly un-PC to say? I’m over it. These crispy, crunchy, light and tasty flavour absorbers are just so gosh-darnitt delicious that when I started experimenting with them, well, I just couldn’t stop. You know how that song goes? Right? I believe I must use the stylings of Depeche Mode to truly describe how I feel…
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Posted in Recipe, Side Dish, Vegan, Veggie Protein on Jul 29th, 2009
In honour of one of Toronto most vibrant festivals of the year, Scotiabank Caribana Festival, this week is dedicated to the flavours and spirit of the part of the world I love best, the Caribbean. I always found it a little confusing that rice and peas, a mainstay of the Jamaican diet is actually made [...]
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In honour of one of Toronto most vibrant festivals of the year, Scotiabank Caribana Festival, this week is dedicated to the flavours and spirit of the part of the world I love best, the Caribbean. This is guava fruit growing on a tree in St. Lucia, actually, on the very grounds where my retreat will [...]
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Posted in Dessert, Organic, Recipe on Apr 9th, 2009
As I went to post this, I realized how much dessert I have been posting lately. I thought about switching it up a little but decided you will soon be inundated with my Green Cleanse Info and that we need a little balance- A little chocolate to make up for all the kale soon coming [...]
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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, [...]
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Oh the holidays. They have come and gone and we may have left ourselves with a wee bit of a dietary and health disaster. Not to fear my sweet Kitchen Love-Making Cook-ittas and Cook-ittos. We all know that the holidays are filled to the brim with sugary treats, heavy meals and perhaps a drink or [...]
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Happy New Year! I wanted to take a quick moment to add a resolution to your life, as outlined in my video. Mostly, though, I wanted to wish you the happiest and healthiest year to come. As we begin to contemplate what resolutions will make the cut for 2009, it would be difficult not to [...]
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It is the last day of 2008 and what a year it has been! I am not one to make a habit of dwelling on the past or contemplating the future, for all goodness comes right now, in the present moment. However, with this year coming to an end, and a new one on the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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