Making Love in the Kitchen

I am still thinking of last weekend’s dreamy Wild Leek foraging adventure. Mother Nature really is wonderful, don’t you agree? Always providing us with different, delicious healthful veggies and fruits depending on the season. Spring is so full of green goodness, and Wild Leeks (a.k.a. Ramps) are no exception. Want to read more about the benefits of Wild Leeks? Read this. Can’t escape the city to pick your own? Not to fear- check out some local farmers’ markets, they are sure to be bustling off the stands so make sure you pick some up!

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My 2013 retreat deets are UP and registration is open! Want to come play and experience Pura Vida in Costa Rica next year? Just you, me, Josh…and 21 of your new best friends! In honour of my 2013 Costa Rican retreat registration opening, check out these three deliciously tropical recipes. Make them this weekend and picture yourself on a beach…now look up- you’re in the rainforest with me in Costa Rica, now look down! You’re on an organic farm tasting fresh veggies…or something like that.

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We’ve announced all the sweet, sweet details for the 2013 Nourish Your Soul retreat. If you like delicious and healthful foods, the beach, the rainforest and fun- this retreat is for you! Registration opens on Friday. Monday marks the official start of the Fab Uplift Detox! In honour of this awesometown new group of detoxers, check out these three detox worthy recipes to get the cleansing wheels in motion. As we saw this week on the blog, detoxing is a very important process for our bodies to ward off illness and disease. This weekend, instead of reaching for barftown healthwashed foods (like this), make these three delicious recipes!

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Crunch on Carrots (Make it your mantra of the day.) First of all- that’s not a real tat. You knew that right? That was drawn on me by an unhealthy eating friend who is sure all I eat are carrots. The point here is that we should all be crunching on carrots. What if at the movies, people crunched on carrots like they did chemical corn? What if people crunched on carrots instead of potato chips. What if carrots were crunched on over smoking ciggies and swigging pitchers. What if we popped carrots instead of pills. What a world it would be!

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Did you hear the news? We have a new online program! Check it out and play with us on The Gluten-Free Renewal cleanse! Already gluten-free? Join us for Edible Beauty Care this Monday and learn the art of toxic free beauty care! In honour of our BRAND spankin’ new online program, the Gluten-Free Renewal Cleanse, we [...]

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FUNderwear in the kitchen – you know that is what we are all about! Join us on Monday for Gluten + Dairy-Free Treats and learn to love your sweet tooth! Want the beauty care, minus the toxins? Edible Beauty Care is February 20th! The weekend is all about breakfast and brunch right? Here are three of our absolute favourite fantabulous breakfast recipes! (Go ahead, make them for dinner too!)

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Delicious, gluten-free and vegan muffins made with natural sweeteners. You won’t be able to resist them.

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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 [...]

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?).

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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???

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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.

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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 [...]

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