It’s patio season and since most patios I know of aren’t serving guacamole flax crackers with a kombucha mojito, looks like I’ll just have to create my own patio. And so I did- mostly with stuff we found on the street that other people were discarding. Seriously. We made the decision that last Sunday we were going to plant our greens garden and set up a sweet patio and on our to the plants store, we keep seeing old patio discards that were just what we needed. How about that?
We’ve got a new feature here on the Love in the Kitchen blog- we asked some of our all time fave peeps and superheroes the same five questions and asked for their heartfelt responses. The result? A super sweet glimpse into the inner workings of some of our UnDiet vibrant living rockstars! Do you know Chef Doug McNish? You must – and if you don’t, what rock do you live under?? He is a raw vegan chef and recent author of the AWESOME cookbook Eat Raw, Eat Well. We asked him to play along and he happily obliged. Check out his responses below!
Posted in Health, Raw, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Apr 2nd, 2012
Happy Monday homegirls and lads,Raw Oreo’s anyone???
I made these in honour of making great things (Why do we need reasons? Make up your own!) The idea came from an amazing treat my main man and I enjoyed when we rocked it raw in the woods with David Wolfe oh so many moons ago. This was similar a treat we served- though they called them pancakes. I am digging them as raw oreos.
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 healthwashing, Wellness, Whole Food on Mar 28th, 2012
It seems like people are a lil’ bit sensitive about their soy products, which we discovered recently when Meghan wrote about her Natural Products Expo adventure. In case you missed it, here’s the gist: foods splashed with lofty health claims are usually not healthy, including faux sausage, turkey and hot dogs, which are almost always made out of soy. Some peeps believe that eating fakin’ bacon is a better choice for personal health, the environment and animal rights. We don’t agree, and here’s why:
Posted in Happiness, Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Whole Food on Dec 21st, 2011
These past 3 months I have had the pleasure of participating in the first of its kind Culinary Nutrition Program. I had contemplated for awhile attending a holistic nutrition school but decided that I wasn’t so much interested in the scientific background, but more so interested in how to apply nutrition knowledge to everyday living. When Meghan made the announcement last spring about this brand new program I applied right away. Well, I knew it was going to be a lot of work, but what I didn’t anticipate was how much FUN I was going to have and the wonderful friendships that were formed along our journey. Part of our learning experience was developing new recipes. The following is one of my creations. Halva is a sweet dense confectionery that can be found in various forms in many different cultures around the world. It can be made from wheat semolina, sugar, honey, butter and vegetable oil. Nuts, raisins and other dried fruits can be added for extra flavour. This type is gelatinous and has a texture similar to polenta. Another type of halva is made from grinding sesame seeds to make a paste and adding a hot sugar syrup to the hard-cracked stage. This is the type that I (and my family) have been obsessed with for years.
Posted in Bread/Cracker, Raw, Recipe, Vegan on Nov 21st, 2011
If you have ever eaten at a raw restauarant and ordered a sandwich, is was likely served to you on this bread. It’s not overly exciting to look at but bow chica bow does it pack an awesome flavour.
What I’m talking about here is Raw Onion Bread. I’ll be the first to pass on anything that includes raw onion- but somehow, this goodness cooks, though at a low temperature, for long enough that the onions become sweet and mild. Be prepared though, you may have to don the old onion goggles to get this one prepped and ready.
Posted in Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe on Oct 17th, 2011
You would think this would be totally sick-ass disgusting. A couple weeks ago, I was kicking it at Dufferin Grove with my delightful intern Alexa when she told me that kale chip inspiration had been dropped on her. She said her idea was so good that she actually had to turn her light on while in bed at night and write it down.
Her brainwave: Kale Chips!
I instantly imagined a head of kale shaped light bulb go on over her head, and then it went over the both of us. I thought this was brilliant. We ran off to get our heads of kale and bunches of dill. We were inspired.
Posted in gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Snack on Sep 12th, 2011
I love kale chips as much as the next nutritionista and (kale chip lover). Hence my desire to continue creating new and ever more awesome town kale chip recipes that cause me to eat entire heads of kale in single sittings followed by the need to drink about 9 litres of water. And let me tell you- eating a full head of kale in one sitting followed by that much water- well, let’s just say that things will be moving and grooving in the colon cleansing department.
So if you just met me this past weekend at the veg festival welcome, and you have some catching up to do.
Posted in Breakfast, Health, Nutrition, Raw, Recipe on Jul 27th, 2011
The summer is on faya! As we way too quickly approach the halfway mark of this sweet, sweet summer, I sit here thinking- where on earth has it gone? The last week, as I have been busy as ever riding this healing train after that accident last week (And thank you so, so, so much for your love and healing vibes- they’re working over time, let me tell you!), the last thing I’ve felt like doing is spending hours in the kitchen cooking. I know you hear me, my sweet outdoor sunshine lovers!
Posted in Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Sweet Treats, Vegan, Whole Food on Jul 20th, 2011
One of my favourite things to do in my free time it to take on kitchen projects. This can range from re-filling spice jars, brewing some kombucha, plotting and planning to create the best gluten-free pie crust there ever was, or this little ditty here.
Summer is a time of fun, sweet fun, but as Jen has been enlightening all of us, it also does not need to be a time for consuming poison, gross poison (dressed up as ‘summer favourites’). Hence her breakdown yesterday of the Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake, or what I am now referring to as the “Toxic Hydrogenated Oil and High Fructose Corn Syrup Cake-Shaped Frozen Food Processing By-Product”. Not for consuming my fair ladies, gents, moms and kiddies. A treat is not a treat if every ingredient in it lends itself to killing you softly. You with me here?
Posted in Condiments, Health, Raw, Recipe on Jun 29th, 2011
Since I forced you into the land of Vag yesterday, I felt it only fair to lighten the mood with a little fresh eating recipes. I have to say there are many great things to dating a man who is also a nutritionist- aside from the fact that he’s really healthy, active and doesn’t think it’s insane that I sleep on a grounding pad ’cause he does do.
The best of the best though is that we share our meals.
Posted in Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Sweet Treats, Weekly Recap on Apr 22nd, 2011
Did you LOVE with all your might Lisa Borden’s post yesterday? She’s the newest to be introduced member of my Superhero Posse. She it totally my secret weapon. Man I love that woman. Speaking of women I love, Jen also totally rocked out on Chlorella. Talk about Love In The Time Of Chlorella. That stuff is powerful and I have been taking it since we were sent all those amazing samples from Sun Chlorella. I really can tell a difference.
Posted in Disease Prevention, Health, Raw, Recipe, Wellbeing on Apr 18th, 2011
Oh that pesky little thing we’ve been hearing so much about, that thing we call radiation? Well, whether media is talking or not, whether a reactor has blown up or not, it is seeping and it is not new. Radiation is everywhere- from phones and TVs and sunshine (obviously worse with recurring burns in the same spots). Do you keep a clock by your bed and have an outlet behind your bed? Radiation, lovers. Radiation.
Posted in Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Video on Apr 11th, 2011
The time has come my fine feathered chocolate warriors. All these days and weeks go by and I make chocolate treats and you comment on how amazing they look. And they do. Oh yes, they do. But have you tasted them yet?
I am all about empowerment. And so I set out to make this video to empower you to start making your chocolates!
Now if I were to start a new blog (as if!)… but if I were, I would call it “And That’s Health Food”. On this imaginary new blog, I would just make chocolate. All kinds of chocolate. Chocolate smoothies, chocolate pudding, chocolate covered kale chips (wait… better write that one down), and chocolate treats. Chocolate treats like the ones I have listed below because if you think about it, it’s sort of everything that I put into my breakfast smoothie just in a different form.
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