Posted in Bread/Baking, Dessert, Recipe, Smart Choices on Feb 4th, 2012
Like the sound of an indulgent delights workshop? Of course you do, sweetie! Join us on February 13th for our Gluten + Dairy Free Treats workshop! Beautify from the outside in (and eat it up, too) at our Edible Beauty Care workshop! This weekend is all about snacks. Protein powered, sweet and savoury. Let me know what you [...]
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
It all started with this gorgalicious ceramic dish with a lid that I picked up at my absolute favourite-if-it-didin’t-exist-I’d-be-naked-store Anthropologie. I saw it and immediately thought, TAGINE central. I don’t know why. Just something about being able to open that lid, have the steam burst out and my getting to announce a fine tah-dah to my dining companion.
The thing is, I am pretty sure I have never actually had a tagine before that I liked. They most often had lamb in them and I am just not that in to eating laaa-aaaa-aaamb. But when fall rolls in, something in the abundance of root veggies at the market, combined with my desire to eat cozy food and not have to work that hard for it, made this one bought adventure a must.
Posted in Dessert, Health, Healthy Treats, Treat on Oct 11th, 2011
Oh my, oh my was this homemade ice cream the most amazing thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. Or in the top 10 for sure.
My bestest friends over at Hamilton Beach Canada sent me the sweetest of gifts and the latest was their 1½ Quart Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Maker. All this time I thought ice cream made in a blender was as good as anything else, but let me tell you- that machine did some magic to our blend of magic.
I was also surprised that there was really not much of a process involved. We blended the goods together in our blender, poured it into our ice cream maker and shazaam alakazaam, a half hour later we were ooing and aahing over the amazing ice creamy creation we had collectively created.
Posted in Entree, Health, Nutrition, Recipe, Vegan, Veggie Protein, Whole Food on Aug 29th, 2011
How it makes my heart sing when I can go to a regular restaurant and order my lover of a food, tempeh. Now, when I say regular restaurant, I’m not talking about nonsense places with names like “Wings and Things”, or “Deep Fry It So You’ll Try It”. I mean restaurants where their overall values- eat organic, local, seasonal etc.- make sweet love with my own.
So wasn’t I over the rainbow excited to see a veg menu with tempeh on it. And this wasn’t the kind of tempeh you might find at most veg/vegan restaurants where it’s kind of just cooked to a crisp and served over a bowl of rice. This tempeh was prepared as if it were the leanest cut of gold labeled cow (do cows come with with gold labels?).
Posted in Announcements, Recipe, Smart Choices, Video, Wellbeing on Jul 31st, 2011
Did you catch my segment on Breakfast Television last week? If you missed it, do check it out. You can watch it online here.
Since the show last Friday, we have been flooded with requests for events, interest in our scholarship, and of course oodles of class registrations (I have included the full schedule at the bottom of this post).
The power of TV continues to amaze me! Which brings me to something very special I’ve been wanting to share.
Over a very, VERY cold two days way back in March, some extremely talented people came together to put together this little project for and with me. They see the potential and are helping others to see it to. Are you ready for the big reveal???
Posted in Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Sweet Treats on Jul 25th, 2011
Sometimes in life, we just need a blueberry muffin.
Or maybe it’s scrambled eggs and toast, a warm cup of milk (hemp of course), mac and cheese (with squash maybe), or perhaps a slice of the best cheeseless cheese cake there ever was.
Posted in Announcements on May 6th, 2011
I am sorry this has come later than I had planned. Better late than never as they say! There are many, many, many awesome town people taking part in this group Green Smoothie Cleanse starting tomorrow and all through next week. Some of you have chosen to go mean and green for three days, others [...]
Posted in Announcements on Apr 6th, 2011
Hey lovers,
Dropping in a quickie from sunny California to remind you of two fantasticalicious offers we have going on today only!
For some reason, there is more spots available then there should be in my most importantly fun, delicious and awesomely inspiring Raw Food Power Workshop coming up this Sunday morning. I will literally be fresh off the plane from California where I have been spending the week at the top of the top raw food and herbal medicine conference and exploring all the local organic goodness of this fair state. In short- I am inspired and you will be too. Spring is here, time to get fresh!!!
Also- we had a little blip in our coupon code yesterday and it wasn’t working. So that is all fixed up now too.
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 Bread/Baking, gluten free, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe on Feb 9th, 2011
Now aren’t these just gorgeous!?!?! Like really glowingly beautiful in all their vibrant redness. I was so excited about this baking adventure for many reasons. I was going to use fresh grated beets in the batter, I was going to use millet in a muffin for the first time. I had some fresh cranberries in there and I was so psyched that I was going to have the most amazingly unique valentine’s day recipe ever.
Posted in Health, Recipe, Salad, Veggie Protein, Whole Food on Feb 7th, 2011
Up until recently, I wouldn’t have had an answer for you either. Barley salad? Who on earth eats pearl barley other than my grandmother? She actually never really made it into a salad. She usually added it to her vegetable soups and I stopped eating those after she inadvertently poisoned me with MSG.
Posted in Dessert, Happiness, Health, Healthy Treats, Recipe, Smart Choices on Dec 22nd, 2010
If you are ever going to indulge in sweet treats, best time is of course during the holidays when you are either so stressed out that you NEED it, or you are having so much fun that you are kind enough to yourself to enjoy it guilt free.
Here are my top five favourite dessert creations.
Vegan’s treat nutritional yeast like it’s the dehydrated cheese in a mac and cheese box. It’s not, but it does make great, creamy, cheese-like sauces. For a long, long time (think 30 of my 31 years), I stayed far away from it. 27 of those years were spent in ignorance that this food existed, two of those years were spent avoiding it because it was odd, one was spent avoiding it because I have read of contraindications between inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional yeast. Then I gave in, tried it, loved it, and now know just what it is.
Posted in Health, Inspiration, Wellness on Nov 19th, 2010
I had so much fun in California with the family. I love going to yoga there where, even after four years of regular practice, I feel like a beginner. I get pushed to my limits in so many ways. Sean Corne aptly asked all of us at the end of her class “To be brave enough to dive in and realize what love really is” and Annie Carpenter, who “suggested we get comfy as we easily tuck our shoulders in behind our knees”. Yes, think about that one. Nothing like a great dose of humbling to get you out of your ego, on to your mat and practicing the patience and presence that is the gift of yoga.
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