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Savoury Cannellini Bean & Carrot Tart with Buckwheat Walnut Crust
This savoury tart is made with a cispy cracker thin buckwheat walnut crust, filled with creamy cannellini beans and topped shaved thyme carrots. It’s delicate and delicious, kid, picky eater and bean hater friendly, completely plant based and gluten free. It’s a perfect addition to a pot luck, dinner party or weeknight dinner with minimal prep that can be done in advance.
Flax & Coconut Granola Cookies
The Flax & Coconut Granola Cookies are made with oats, oat flour, almond flour, flax seeds and coconut, held together by coconut oil, almond butter and a small amount of maple syrup and studded with dark chocolate chunks. They come together in under 20 minutes, most of which is baking time. Whip them up the next time you’re meal planning and prepping and you’ll have a delicious treat to snack on all week long.
Red Lentil & Walnut Paté
This red lentil and walnut paté is so easy to make and comes together in under 20 minutes thanks to quick cooking split red lentils and a few common pantry ingredients. It's a tasty spread for a good sourdough bread, crackers or crunchy vegetables and is loaded with plant based protein, iron, fiber and a host of essential micronutrients to keep you well nourished.
Vegetable Noodle Soup with Tumeric Miso Broth
This nutritious and delicious soup comes together in 20 minutes. The turmeric broth can be made in a large batch and kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days and makes a great canvas for a vegetable noodle miso soup that you can customize based on your taste preference and what you have on hand.
Lentil Salad with Quick Pickled Carrots & Fennel
This lentil, quick pickled carrot and fennel salad is light yet satiating all at once, and full of flavour and crunch factor from the quick pickled veggies. It keeps well in the refrigerator and stays crunchy even the next day.
Spiced & Crumbled Tempeh
This spiced and crumbled tempeh can be prepared in advance, refrigerated and used all week long to complete a meal. Use it to top your salads, fill your tacos and wraps or enjoy warmed up in a pan with leftover roasted veggies. It’s flavourful, versatile, and an excellent source of plant based protein, a good source of plant based iron and calcium, and a rich source of gut healthy prebiotic fiber.
Thick & Creamy Banana Walnut Hot Chocolate
Meet your new favourite hot chocolate. It’s like banana bread in liquid form. Unlike the typical hot chocolate I grew up with, this one is rich, thick and creamy, almost like a smoothie, and 100% whole food based without any added sweeteners.
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.
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.
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.