Garlic Lemon Roasted Brussels Sprouts
What you need 1 lb Brussels sprouts (washed, ends removed, halved) 2-3 cloves of garlic (minced) 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tsp fresh lemon juice dash salt and pepper Serves 4 What you do Preheat oven to 400F In a bowl toss sprouts with garlic, oil, and lemon juice. Spread on a […]
Baked Leek Chips
This is one of my favourite simple salty snacks. The crunchy little leek rings remind me of onion rings, minus all the unnecessary breading. I’ll just caution you in advance… while these little nibbles are nutritious, they are also highly addictive! The only thing about these little dynamo’s is that you need to make them […]
Pumpkin Coconut Latte (Sans Coffee)
Move over Starbucks! As much as I love the atmosphere you’ve created across the globe to allow a place for visitors and community to gather, some of your concoctions don’t give me the warm and fuzzies. While your hot drinks are brilliant creations of flavours, the ingredients leave me, well… a little under-satisfied. If […]
Matcha Ginger Nice-cream
This matcha infused ice-cream is a refreshing alternative to my beloved matcha la-tea. It has no added sugar or additives. Matcha is amazing! The entire tea leaf is pulverized to make the powder, so you are ingesting and getting benefit from the whole leaf when you consume matcha. That means you get about 137 times […]
Baked Portobello and Egg Stack
Go on break the rules! This dish goes for any meal; breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. There’s no real recipe for this dish. You can make a “mushroom stack” out of any thing you like. The options are literally endless. Here, I used a large portobello mushroom cap, a thick slice of tomato, an egg, fresh […]
Healthy Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe
Sometimes you just need a little love… sometimes that love comes in a cup! Hot drinks can warm our souls, hearts, minds and bellies. This is a quick and easy hot chocolate recipe is made from whole real foods so you don’t need to feel any guilt as you enjoy it. The ingredients are pure […]
Poached Pear Cashew Cheesecake
No bake, gluten free, egg free, dairy free, wheat free, chemical free and free of refined sugar dessert. What is there not to love? I made this for Thanksgiving dinner from organic pears that were graciously given to me by a good friend. She has numerous fruit trees on her property that aren’t sprayed. Yum […]
Black Bean Brownies
I have a confession; I LOVE all things chocolate! There, it’s out. I said and posted it on the net for the world to know. This is not the kind of love that you might be thinking, it’s worse… It’s the filling your every cell kind of love that stays with you for a lifetime. […]