Almond Chocolate Cookies with Pink Sugar Free Glaze
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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.

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Dairy-Free Vegetarian Quiche with Leeks, Artichokes & Spinach + Flaky Olive Oil Spelt Flour Crust
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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.

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Rustic Sesame Oat Crackers
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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.

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Smokey White Bean & Vegetable Soup
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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.

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Vegan Orange Spelt Loaf with Orange Coconut Cream
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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.

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Whole Grain Thumbprint Cookies
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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.

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All Purpose Tahini Dressing (aka Lebanese Tarator Sauce)
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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.

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Homemade One Ingredient Nut Butter
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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.

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Creamy Carrot Lentil Soup
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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 feezer for those busy days. It gets a ton of creaminess and a good dose of plant based protein and iron from red lentils.

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Agretti, the wildly delicious & nutritious weed and how to prepare it
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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.

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Baked Artichokes with Brown Rice & Spinach
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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.

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Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Cookies w/ Buckwheat
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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.

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Sunchoke, Leek & Potato Soup + A Primer On Dietary Fiber
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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.

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Gluten Free & Vegan Apple Chestnut Flour Muffins
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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.

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Beetroot Maca Latte
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Beetroot Maca Latte

This beetroot maca latte is loaded with the goodness of blood building steamed beets and energizing and hormone balancing maca root powder for a morning or afternoon pick me up that won't spike your blood sugar and throw you off balance.

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Turmeric, Ginger, Honey Lemon Elixir
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Turmeric, Ginger, Honey Lemon Elixir

This elixir is loaded with the nourishing powers of turmeric, ginger, honey and lemon. It's a great way to support and strengthen the immune system during the cold and flu season. It also helps fight inflammation, aids digestion and makes a wonderful warming drink, whether it's first thing in the morning or at bedtime.

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Lebanese Lentil Soup with Lemon, Chard & Potatoes
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Lebanese Lentil Soup with Lemon, Chard & Potatoes

Adas bi hamoud is a traditional Lebanese lentil (adas) soup that is made with chard, potatoes and lots of lemon (aka hamoud). It can be made brothy like a soup or dense like a stew. For a more dense version, increase the amount of lentils to half a cup. Otherwise, follow the recipe below for a brothy soup version. Either way, you get a nutritious, delicious and satisfying meal for lunch or dinner any day of the week.

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Sumac Roasted Carrot & Cannellini Bean Spread
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Sumac Roasted Carrot & Cannellini Bean Spread

This spread is perfect for a picnic, on your favourite sanwich or served with crackers and crudités. It's a wonderful appetizer, makes a great addition to the buffet table at a party and a wonderful picnic companion. It's loaded with the goodness of roasted heirloom carrots, creamy cannellini beans and deliciously tangy and sumac spice. It's so good you'll want to spread it on everything.

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