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?
Happy long weekend, Canadian lovers (and sorry to our international peeps)! And happy Victoria Day, almost? Yay for the 193rd birthday of ol’ Queeny Vic. Still don’t really get the point of it all, but am I going to raise a stinkeroo about a long weekend? Nopers. May 24 really has become more to Canadians than just a celebration of Victoria Day- it is kinda like our celebrated right to a long weekend. I like that. We come together and cottage, sing by campfires and play in lakes and forests all weekend long. Very Canadian, if I do say so myself. For the international peeps- you should come play! We really do it up right.
Posted in Announcements, Health, Online courses, Video on May 12th, 2012
Happy weekend, lovers! Yesterday, I announced I would be releasing the first of MANY fully supported, online video courses for you my sweet peeps. I wanted to fully re-create the experience SO many of you have written to me about wanting to enjoy- my workshops and classes. Okay, so I can’t fly you all down to Toronto and fit all of you in my kitchen (I still foresee this happening one day…stay with me for that one). Instead, we filmed over 2.5 hours worth of fun and informative videos, and I have been working like a busy busy bee to get the loads of content that will go along with the program finito for your reading pleasure.
Posted in Health, Organic, Recipe, Whole Food on Apr 27th, 2012
I can’t believe how time flies. We interrupt our usual Friday Creed post to share some pics from the full house fun I had a couple weeks ago at Loblaws when I did my cooking thang over their way. They’ve got quite the fancy pants kitchen at Loblaws Carlton and I loved playing around in there. The trickiest bit for me was not so much the cooking bit but working out two amazing recipes that would use exclusively whole and organic produce. I wanted to design two extra special dishes that would introduce Loblaws customers to some brand new whole food ingredients but also not be too unusual or difficult that they wouldn’t want to tackle them on their own once they got home. I settled on my famous cream of broccoli soup, using some fresh made almond milk, along with a beautiful produce rich quinoa salad (recipe below).
Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Apr 16th, 2012
We are now officially at the halfway mark of my 10 week cooking program and I must say that having 12 amazing people come by the kitchen once a week to learn, create, cook and dine together is surely the second best part of my job (you know retreats will always take first!). If you have used any of my recipes, you know that they are not always as descriptive as perhaps they should be. I sure learned this lesson in editing my cookbook. Personally, I think that’s what makes them extra super amazingly special. Maybe it’s that I am a Montessori kid and was a given a little freedom in how my edutainment learning was gonna go. All I know is that I have one rule in my kitchen when it comes to cooking. Read the recipe, understand the recipe, then own the recipe.
Posted in Happiness, Health, Healthy Treats, Holiday on Apr 9th, 2012
There are all kinds of rules that go along with celebrating Passover- what we can and can’t eat, what we should and shouldn’t eat and all that jazz. I was never one to play by the rules and one thing Passover can no longer take away from me is my chocolate. See- the chocolate deprivation association with Passover dates back about 28 or so years. As wee little kiddlet, living in Winnipeg, Passover was a serious affair. With my grandma being one of 7 siblings- the offspring of that was massive. By the age of 10, our Passover dinners numbered in the 80s and we held them in one of the Banquet rooms at the Westin Hotel- passing around a microphone to read from the book and sing our songs.
Posted in Health, Holiday, Inspiration, Whole Food on Apr 6th, 2012
Only four spots left in my 2013 Nourish Your Soul retreat. Group signed up is, thus far, AWESOMETOWN! Only thing missing…is you! So get on it and come play on the beach with us. Happy Passover! What fun- a weekend full of food, laughs and family. Does it get any better? I don’t think so! Cooking up a storm for friends and fam? You can keep the best parts of traditional holiday fare- and ditch the worst part! Here are my three favourite Passover recipes. (Pssst…for my peeps celebrating Easter! Don’t think I forgot about you. Come back Monday for my all-time favourite chocolate recipes!)
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 Dessert, Health, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Mar 26th, 2012
Oh the fun I had making a mess in my kitchen last week. With my book off my plate (for now), my classes humming along, and being all rested with the sun shining, I was inspired to get baking. I am not one of those tidy cooks, as you may have guessed. Recipe creation for me is this mad mess of ingredients, tools, music and dancing. The result is this…
Posted in Cleansing, Health, Recipe, Snack on Mar 19th, 2012
She’s back, love sweet lovers. She’s back. The Fab Detox is making it’s final Spring time appearance and we’re ready to coach you through. The Pre-registration has been all a buzz all weekend long and you have just one more day (today) to take advantage of the sweet bonuses that come with securing your spot early. Go get’er (then come back here!) Oh and for those of you kicking it in the Toronto area- we have a few spots left in this Saturday’s Detox Power Party workshop.
Posted in Health, Healthy Treats, Raw, Recipe, Wellbeing on Feb 27th, 2012
I do my best to stay far away from people who call them selves “nutrition experts” when really they haven’t a clue- or at least the work they do makes it seem that way. Now- I am not into judging or labelling or any of that jazz- so to help me exercise my non-judgment exercises I just avoid them.
Here I am referring to the type of “nutrition experts” who actually promote the consumption of nitrates, saying they are a-okay (how I despise studies funded by companies that have a vested interest in our increased consumption of poison), and the same ‘nutritionist’ who is a paid promotor or processed deli meats.
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Recipe, Video on Feb 20th, 2012
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.
Posted in Announcements, Happiness, Recipe on Feb 14th, 2012
Most of you have heard the news. Maybe from Facebook or maybe when my friend, raw/vegan chef Doug McNish spilled the beans on Twitter. The sweet letters, tweets and comments have been pouring in so how could I not share the sweet love news right here. It’s true what you’ve heard, or what you may now be guessing. As of last week- my main man and I are engaged. Exciting? Yes. Very! Shocking? Yes. Very! I am not one of those ladies who have dreamed about my wedding since I was five. I haven’t a clue what my dress will look like. I don’t know if it will be a wedding for two or a wedding for 100. I don’t know where it will be, but I do hope the sun will be shining. I also know that even though this whole getting engaged/getting married thing was never something I strived for- but I must admit, it is sweet as can be to be doing both with most amazing man ever.
Yeppers. That is me. Me with crazy swollen eyelids while on my retreat in St. Lucia. I am not tired. Nor am I hungover. I just had really swollen eyes. Why? One week prior- we had done the photo shoot for my book. Now- normally, I am picky about the make-up I use. For my weekly use of makeup (usually just for special occasions) I opt for the natural brands given the green light by the Cosmetic Database. The challenge withy my photo shoot is that my make-up collection literally consists of one eye shadow, one mascara, one blush and some lip gloss. I knew that I was in great hands with our make-up artist and even though she used mainly mineral based make-up, one day was still too much. The next day I looked like I’d been up crying all night long. I had a two day break from the make-up and then had another made-up day. The damage was done. My eyelids flared up like that kid at summer camp who got bit by a spider while she slept and couldn’t open her eye in the morning (we all had that kid in our cabin right?)
Posted in Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Feb 6th, 2012
That’s right homegirls (and boy or two). I made an ice cream float. I haven’t a clue why, in the middle of winter, I suddenly declared that it was ice cream float season. I’m thinking it likely has something to do with all the excitement over my upcoming Gluten + Dairy Free Treats class (yep, a week today!). Or, maybe I was just longing from yonder years when I used to have slumber parties at my grandma and grandpa’s house and ice cream floats were the dessert of choice (that or frozen grape bubble gum??? things I will never understand).
The floats would be served up in these little black and white cups (and if you come to my kitchen, you might just spot it here). We usually had vanilla ice cream and our float liquid of choice was, of course, root beer. The magic of the float was that you would scoop in your ice cream, pour the soda pop over top and the whole thing would turn into a frothy mug of heaven, topped off with a bendy red and white straw. As I will be sweetly demonstrating in my class next week, eating for amazing health does not mean you have to do away with the treats of yesteryear
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