This savory soup is nutritious, delicious, hearty but not heavy, and best of all, it’s ready in less than a half hour. Don’t let the list of ingredients deter you from making the soup – most are herbs and pantry items you have!
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Recipes for ‘bark’ have been trending all over Instagram and tiktok. This is my recipe for Bark – made in 5 minutes and then popped in the freezer to harden. So easy and so good!
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This Golden Milk Smoothie recipe is delicious and has the added benefit of protein and calcium in the cottage cheese and yogurt. If you want to keep this smoothie dairy free, use a coconut yogurt and swap the cottage cheese for a cup of white beans (cannellini or pinto), both provide plant-based protein and the beans also provide fiber, a wealth of B vitamins, including B12, iron, potassium, zinc, and other essential minerals.
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I make different plant-based milk beverages and smoothies quite often. I love the nutritional benefits they provide. Having a spice mix ready makes the preparation so much easier. My Spiced Turmeric Latte is a perfect example and the reason I created my Golden Milk Spice Mix. This spice mix works for the latte and also for my Golden Milk Smoothie!
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Another one-bowl, quick to make, delicious, nutritious loaf, gluten and dairy free, this time sweet (but not too sweet!). This healthy Banana Chocolate Fudge Loaf tastes rich and decadent and is a perfect slice for breakfast, a mid-afternoon pick-me-up or with some coconut cream drizzled on top or with a scoop of ice cream for dessert.
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My gluten and dairy free Stone Fruit Crisp is a medley of ground almonds, oats, warming spices, natural sweetener, nuts and coconut. Combine that goodness to top slices of ripe nectarines, peaches, plums or pitted cherries and bake to create a delicious and nutritious juicy fruit-bottomed, crispy-topping dessert. Leftovers are wonderful for breakfast the next morning!
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Making pickled red onions is easier than you can imagine and so delicious! Red onions aren’t as pungent as yellow cooking onions and pickled, they work deliciously in so many ways - toss them in your salad to add a delicate zest, add them to your sandwich or wrap, use them in your savoury cooking recipes, add them to your burger, tacos or burritos or serve as a side.
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Here is a simple 4 ingredient recipe for the most refreshing, delicious and healthy sorbet crafted to cool you down on the hottest day. It’s perfect for a light dessert and certain to impress and delight friends and family. Made with frozen fruit and a lime, this sorbet is made quickly in your food processor and is ready to eat right away with a soft-serve consistency. You can also freeze it to have it more scoopable for a cone or cup.
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Saskatoon Berries are a superfood, packed with antioxidants and high in plant-based fiber, they look like blueberries and have a similar taste but they are not related. Saskatoon berries are more in the apple family – interesting! They have 7x the amount of calcium and twice the amount of manganese of blueberries. They are SO delicious!
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Cottage cheese has been trending lately, being used in pasta sauces, ice cream, even body care. And smoothies! In this shake/smoothie recipe, the cottage cheese replaces the protein powder used in so many smoothie recipes, it helps to thicken the smoothie to the milkshake consistency and there is not even a hint of a taste of cottage cheese – it has such a mild flavour to begin with which makes it ideal to use in a smoothie.
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This is a dream of a recipe for a quick, delicious healthy dinner. It takes as long to make as for your pasta to boil and cook! It’s made in one pot for easy clean up. Leftovers are fabulous eaten cold so this is a perfect meal prep recipe too.
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This is a great recipe for a fast, made in one baking pan, baked oats recipe for a nutritious breakfast. Like many of my recipes it takes minutes to put together and 20 minutes in the oven and then you have a delicious warm, cozy breakfast that is good year-round. I love oatmeal any time of year!
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A delicious and nutritious gluten and dairy free loaf for breakfast or a snack. The dates are the star of this recipe and give the loaf just the right amount of sweetness. The strong coffee or brewed tea to soak the dates enhances with a delicious subtle flavour.
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Reminiscent of the BBQ pork at Chinese restaurants, this easy to prepare pork tenderloin recipe features Chinese 5 Spices powder (available at most grocery stores) which gives this dish its fabulous, unique and familiar flavour. A simple marinade that becomes the baste and delicious sauce for the plated tenderloin slices, served with rice and steamed broccoli drizzled with sesame oil and sprinkled with sesame seeds, creates an impressive and delicious dish you’ll serve with pride to family and friends.
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How quick and easy these sheet pan pancakes are to make, and one bowl makes cleanup easy too. These pancakes bake in 15 minutes so you can have breakfast ready quickly. Plus, this dish saves standing by the stove to flip individual pancakes (I do love me some stacked pancakes too thought!). Customize these sheet pan pancakes however you like – berries in one area, chocolate chips in another, almond butter and banana in another and pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and coconut in another – as in the photos. What would you choose? What are your family’s favourites? Serve with a drizzle of maple syrup - delish!
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