Homemade healing

There have been and likely will be many articles written about the observation of health benefits related to consuming turmeric. I like to use it in cooking  and had just picked up a fresh jar of dry turmeric when my sweetheart took a tumble out on the icy driveway. I decided this was a great…

Banana splits for dinner

What’s the perfect meal before a first annual general meeting as a sitting town councillor? Why, organic banana splits, of course! My husband and I showed up to a special election meeting several months ago after big shifts in council in our small town, and he wound up being elected. So tonight, after he came…

Candy, no wrapper

I’ve been making chocolate, probably a little more often than I should, lately.  What can I say? Northern latitude + January + mandatory self imposed isolation = the need for something. Chocolate in its many vegan and gluten free forms from my kitchen is a lesser of a multitude of evils.     Last night I…

Spaghetti and meatballs

Or, more accurately, summer squash and lentil balls. I love being able to put together a meal that keeps on giving. I lean hard on soups and sometimes casseroles for this. Veggie burgers make a quick and filling meal with some veggies on the side and sometimes a ‘familiar bowlful’ makes all the difference in…

Lemon blender cupcakes

You don’t have to use a blender but it will be faster and smoother if you do. These are still in the oven, I’m writing this down before I forget what I did, so many of my recipes are subject to this fate. Add to blender: Zest of one lemon One lemon (Meyer preferred), peeled…

Wicked dog food

Coconut, brussel sprouts, chia, blueberries, the list goes on. Not only did I come home with treats for the two-leggeds today, the four legged one has been living it up, too! This flavour gets a big sticky seal of approval from our lady. No grains bringing her down. Now if only she could convince us…

High quality junk food

We all have our vices. My biggest vice would have to be potato chips. Salty, fatty, and crunchy: everything I desire whenever I start feeling the first pangs of hunger. Canola and I haven’t been friends for quite some time now, as it makes its presence known in my body with an immediate and intense…

Homemade spice blends

They are so fresh and tasty!    I refuse to be bored by what I eat and I insist on enjoying (at least almost) every meal. Spices have a lot to do with that. Someday I will grow most of my own and not worry about where they come from or what they’ve come into…

Multicoloured Duck Eggs

Most of the meals I eat are vegan. There are a few reasons for this, I credit my education in ecology, especially concerning energy transfer between trophic levels, for this. I won’t wave a flag or point fingers about this, it is a personal choice and I can only make that choice for one person. …

Forgotten leftovers

Lunchtime caught me unprepared, or so I thought! I opened the fridge to find left over soup from a pot I thought we had finished a couple days ago. With a few additions I was able to amp up the left over red cabbage stew into a new tasty bowl of yum. Life is good…

Ice cream

This Christmas I bought my husband an ice cream maker. It was a selfish purchase. We’re both over it. 2 cans of high fat coconut milk, cocoa, pinch of salt, vanilla bean powder, stevia or sweetener of choice, pinch of cardamom, nutmeg, etc… Makes one feel human again, and like they might not freeze to…

Breakfast falafels?!

The number of foods I’m allergic to/intolerant of just about doubled this year. I was left feeling there was more food out there that I couldn’t eat than foods I could. Shopping for packaged foods in stores only confirmed this for me. Once I made it through the anger and frustration though, the creativity returned,…