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Artichoke & Pistachio Tapenade
This bright green tapenade is loaded with the goodness of artichokes, pistachios, and parsley with a rich texture and hints of lemon and garlic. It's guaranteed to be an impressive appetizer and crowd pleaser at your next gathering and it’s a great condiment to keep on hand for spreading on sandwiches and crackers.
Red Lentil Ragù
This plant based vegan friendly ragù comes together effortlessly. It requires minimal chopping and a few basic pantry ingredients, and it’s mostly hands off because it simmers on the stove top while you do other things. It’s packed with nourishing red lentils that are loaded with plant based protein, iron and fiber and can be served with your favourite pasta noodles, zoodles, roasted vegetables, grain bowls or even as a topper for baked loaded sweet potatoes.
Vegan Blood Orange & Cacao Pancakes with Whole Spelt Flour
Citrus season is in full swing. Make the most of it while it’s still here with these delicious Blood Orange & Cacao Pancakes. These pancakes are made with whole spelt flour, pure raw cacao powder and fresh squeezed blood orange juice. They’re also vegan friendly and the batter is completely oil free.
Orange & Fennel Salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette
This salad is refreshing, crisp and sweet and loaded with vitamin C from both fennel and oranges. The sweetness is balanced out with a light and tangy white balsamic and thyme vinaigrette. It makes a perfect starter or side salad.
Sachertorte (aka Dark Chocolate & Apricot) Truffles
These Sachertorte inspired chocolate truffles are made with a delicious melt in your mouth concoction of almonds, dried apricots, cacao powder and a few other ingredients that are ground together into a creamy paste then formed into balls and dipped in melted dark chocolate, just like a chocolate truffle. They are enjoyed by adults and kids alike.
Almond Chocolate Cookies with Pink Sugar Free Glaze
These cookies are fun and like most of the recipes you’ll find here, they’re simple to make and are whole food based. You can decorate them or leave them plain, they’re delicious either way but understandbly, they are slightly more desirable and appreciated by the little one’s when they’re decorated with chocolate or this deliciously pink sugar free glaze.
Dairy-Free Vegetarian Quiche with Leeks, Artichokes & Spinach + Flaky Olive Oil Spelt Flour Crust
This dairy free vegetarian quiche is loaded with vegetables and comes packaged in a flaky olive oil spelt crust. Even if you’ve never made a quiche before, this recipe is a guaranteed success. It’s easy, nutritious and delicious. You can make it for a weeknight dinner, or prepare it in advance. The beauty of quiche is that it does keep well and taste amazing the next few days, straight out of the refrigerator (yes cold) or warmed up slightly in the oven. You can grab a slice for a quick breakfast, pack it for lunch or make it ahead for any dinner, lunch, brunch or party.
Rustic Sesame Oat Crackers
These delicious rustic sesame oat crackers are a family favourite in our home. I make two batches every 2 or 3 days. We snack on them, eat them with dips, spreads, nut butters and jams and use them in place of bread to accompany soups and salads. They’re simple, vegan and gluten-free when made with certified gluten free oats. Best of all, they’re husband and kid friendly.
Smokey White Bean & Vegetable Soup
This smokey white bean and vegetable soup is warming and nourishing and perfect for a cold winter day. It get’s a slight smokiness from smoked paprika and warmth from cumin and turmeric. It’s easy to make, uses regular pantry items that you likely already keep on hand, tastes even better the next day and freezes very well making it the perfect weeknight meal or meal prep recipe. Try it in your meal plan this week.
Vegan Orange Spelt Loaf with Orange Coconut Cream
This whole spelt vegan orange loaf cake with orange coconut cream frosting is a delicious dessert this time of year and a great break from all the rich chocolate. It’s light and bright and makes great use of citrus which is abundant this time of year.
Whole Grain Thumbprint Cookies
If you're the kind of person who enjoys nibbling on a cookie with your morning beverage, an afternoon tea and/or after dinner and are looking for something less indulgent, lower in sugar and on the healthier side of things, here's my thumbprint recipe.
All Purpose Tahini Dressing (aka Lebanese Tarator Sauce)
This traditional Lebanese tarator sauce makes a delicious all purpose dressing or dip and can even be used as a pasta sauce. It’s the perfect condiment to keep around for adding flavour to your meals, whether it be a salad, roasted vegetables, a grain bowl or your choice of protein.
Homemade One Ingredient Nut Butter
A fresh ground batch of homemade nut butter is bursting with flavour and aroma that can’t be bought in a jar off the shelf, and all it takes is one ingredient…NUTS. If you haven’t tried it yourself, I highly recommend it. Not only for the sense of satisfaction that I guarantee you’ll feel, it’s also more economical than store bought nut butter, with a deeper richer and ironically nuttier flavour.
Creamy Carrot Lentil Soup
This soup is warming, nourishing and delicious and comes together in 30 minutes. It freezes really well also, so double or triple the batch and pop some in the freezer for those busy days. It gets a ton of creaminess and a good dose of plant based protein and iron from red lentils.
Agretti, the wildly delicious & nutritious weed and how to prepare it
Agretti or Monk’s Beard, is a wildly delicious and nutritious weed that grows in Italian marshlands and the mediterranean basin. Once used to make soap and glass, it’s now cultivated for culinary purposes. It’s tangy and a bit sour when eaten raw and has a delicate flavour reminscent of spinach when cooked. It’s highly nutritious, rivaling many of the dark leafy greens and makes a great addition to your spring time meal repertoire.
Baked Artichokes with Brown Rice & Spinach
This seasonal dish makes a great center of the table main course. Artichokes are stuffed with a mixture of almonds, bread crumbs pine nuts and herbs and seasoned with salt, pepper and my vegan walnut parm, layered over a bed of brown, red, and wild rice with spinach and baked to perfection.
Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies w/ Buckwheat
These Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies are oil free, gluten free, vegan and refined sugar free and made with whole food ingredients like ground buckwheat and hazelnuts, with 92% dark chocolate chunks and sweetened with coconut sugar and maple syrup. They are earthy, nutty and chocolaty and perfect for dunking.
Ume Sho Kudzu Macrobiotic Remedy for Digestion, Colds, Nausea and more
Ume Sho Kudzu, a macrobiotic remedy for digestion, nausea, colds, fatigue and so much more. Read more about this all natural remedy, learn about the ingredients and get the recipe so you can add it to your arsenal this winter, and face cold and flu season with a shield.
Sunchoke, Leek & Potato Soup + A Primer On Dietary Fiber
This creamy sunchoke, leek and potato soup is rich in flavour, deliciously satisfying and satiating yet light. It makes a perfect winter warmer any night of the week as the main course accompanied by crusty bread or as a starter to a more elaborate meal, especially for the holidays, as you can double, triple or quadruple the recipe to feed a crowd without much thought, it's really forgiving.
Gluten Free & Vegan Apple Chestnut Flour Muffins
These Apple Chestnut Muffins are the embodiment of all things autumn, from the sweetness of crisp golden delicious apples to the maltiness of chestnut flour and the warmth of ground cinnamon all heightened with a touch of pure maple syrup.