4 Ingredient Walnut Cream Sauce for Pasta
This is the easiest cream sauce you’ll ever make. All you need are 4 common pantry ingredients, 3 minutes, and a blender and you’ve got a delicious, creamy, sauce for your favourite pasta. So, grab the walnuts, no sugar added plant milk like oat or almond, garlic, and fine sea salt. That’s it, that’s all.
Coconut Chia Pudding
Chia pudding is one of my favourite breakfast or snack foods. I love how easy it is to make, store and personalize and the fact that it’s loaded with healthy fats, protein and fiber to keep you satiated for hours.
Simple Vegan Cacao Pancakes
These simple vegan cacao pancakes are a perfect weekend breakfast treat. They’re fluffy thanks to light splet flour, chocolatey thanks to raw cacao powder, and a little bit nutty thanks to the addition of almond flour and hazelnut butter to the batter. They can be served alone with a drizzle of maple syrup and some crushed hazelnuts, or with fresh fruits like strawberries or bananas.
Savoury Greens Galette
A good savoury galette should be a part of everyone’s meal repertoire. While they’re certainly not as “easy” to throw together as a one pot soup or a quick pasta, they’re simple enough and make for an impressive center of the table meal that looks way more complex to make than it really is. You really don’t even need a recipe once you’ve learned to make a savoury galette. The process is quite simple, once you’ve got a pie crust and your favourite vegetables cooked.
Beetroot, Chickpeas and Cashew Cheese Salad
This is more of a recipe idea than a recipe, in that it’s really simple, relies on a few good ingredients and can be seasoned to taste, without much measuring involved, if any. It’s a great side dish, or light main course. All you need is some steamed beets, cooked chickpeas, and your favourite fermented cashew cheese, which you could replace with feta or goat cheese if you eat dairy.
Baked Pasta with Artichokes, Leeks and Saffron Bechamel
This baked pasta with artichokes, leeks and saffron bechamel is a great way to celebrate and showcase fresh artichokes when they’re in season. While there’s some effort involved in preparing the fresh artichokes, it’s well worth it. The saffron bechamel is vegan, oil, gluten and grain free and comes together in just a few minutes.
Sheet Pan BBQ Tofu, Vegetable and Quinoa Bowls
These Sheet Pan BBQ Tofu, Vegetable and Quinoa Bowls with homemade smokey BBQ sauce, come together in minutes, and while it takes some hands off oven time before you can get it on the table, the active prep time is fast and simple with minimal steps and ingredients involved. It’s the perfect easy, no fussy, healthy weeknight meal that the whole family will enjoy.
Homemade Smokey BBQ Sauce
This homemade BBQ sauce is tangy, slightly sweet and salty and just the right amount of smokey thanks to the smoked paprika. It’s everything you want in a BBQ sauce and it’s super easy to make, without refined sugars and whacky perservatives, which are all added bonuses in my book.
Halawa Inspired Tahini Coconut Granola
This tahini coconut granola is an ode to my beloved halawa. It’s a flavour bomb of tahini, coconut and black sesame seeds nestled in crispy crunchy oats that’s lightly sweetened with creamed honey. There’s not much to say about this granola, as the taste really speaks for itself. Give it a try, I guarantee you won’t be able to put down the jar, that’s if you don’t eat it all straight off the baking tray first.
4 Ways to Support your Immune System Naturally
The immune system is a complex machine that protects us from disease by constantly scouring for and attacking viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and other harmful pathogens that enter our bodies. It works round the clock day in day out and unless we get ill, we give it very little thought and attention.
Gut Health Part II: Dysbiosis, Leaky Gut and the Immune Connection
The gut or large intestine is home to trillions of bacteria and 70% of the body’s immune system. Our gut bacteria (aka flora) modulates our immune response and our immune system determines the composition of our gut flora. They work hand in hand to protect us from pathogenic microbes, viruses and parasites.
Gut Health Part I: Digestion
While the digestive system and intestinal system are separate, they are part of one entity knowns as the gastrointestinal tract, which starts at the mouth. What you put in your mouth, how efficiently and effectively you digest it, determines how it passes into the gut and influences your gut health and bacterial balance greatly.
Super Crispy Chickpea Cracker Thins
This super crispy chickpea cracker thin is one of our favourite things to whip up for snack times. It’s falvourful enough to eat alone thanks to the chickpea flour, which also makes it gluten free and whole food based. The recipe is 3 ingredients, excluding salt and water and is a fun way to get the kids involved in the kitchen too.
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.
Helping Kids Build Healthy Eating Habits
As parents, caregivers and influencers of little people, it’s our duty to instill and reinforce healthy food and lifestyle habits that will help them live a healthy happy life, all without creating a culture of fear around food. It’s no easy feat, but it’s very much possible. Read on for my top 9 tips for helping kids build healthy eating habits while developing a positive relationship with food.
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.
March Vegetable of the Month: The Artichoke
Artichokes are one of my favourite vegetables. When they’re in season, I enjoy few other vegetables as much. From a nutritional standpoint, they’re loaded with fiber, and have long been known for their therapeutic properties. Preparing fresh artichokes can be intimidating and while it’s a time consuming process, it’s well worth the effort. Read on to learn more about artichokes, how to prepare them and their health benefits.
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.
Banana, Tahini & Chocolate Chunk Muffins
These banana, tahini and chocolate chunk muffins are perfect for the banana lover. They are moist and fluffy and naturally sweetened by the pureed bananas and the addition of pure maple syrup which is balanced out by the tahini and dark chocolate chunks. They’re appreciated by adults and kids alike.