You know those moments in time, those special events in history, where you can recall the exact date, the exact time, and exactly what you were doing. Thursday, October 26th, 2017, at 8:30pm, that was the night I met Deb Perlman, AKA Smitten Kitchen. This wasn’t our first meeting – Erin and I kinda fangirled…
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How To: Healthy Breakfast – Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal
I go in breakfast waves. Overnight oats one week, pancakes the next, good old peanut butter & toast another. But right now I’m riding the baked oatmeal wave. If you’ve been following our blog for sometime now, you may have noticed I have a little crush on baked oatmeal. Okay, a major crush. We’ve got…
How To: Big Batch – Thai Carrot & Sweet Potato Soup
Have I told you how I won the cookbook lottery jackpot? Just before we rang in 2017, I found out I won not one, not two, but TWELVE cookbooks! Do you know how many cookbooks twelve is? A LOT! So much that they are all still sitting in a pile on my bedroom floor as…
How To: Slow Cooker – Orange and Honey Braised Carrots
Yup, that’s right. TWO slow cooker recipes in a row. And BOTH vegetarian. How about that? I tend to agree with Erin – most vegetarian slow cooker recipes do result in a pile of mush. But just like our daal, I have found when treated correctly, you can still get the same oven or stove…
Thai Sweet Potato Soup
Anyone else disturbed by the amount of their grocery bill lately? Not OK. With the tumbling loonie, word on the street is grocery costs will continue to rise. It’s all of that fancy imported food we like. Like cauliflower, the caviar of 2016. Not to worry though, friends. I’m here to give you an insider…
How To: Healthy Sides – Honey Roasted Carrots with Tahini Yogurt Sauce
Grilling season is almost upon us! Woo hoo! FINALLY! After enduring a long and extremely cold winter, I can now see the light! This past weekend the sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and I bought my first pair of capris for this season. Spring is here! Time to break open the bbq and…
How to: Quickie Meal – Carrot Ginger Soup
This past week has been a doozy. It was insanely packed with social events, a wonderful conference put on by Ontario home economists and a trip out of town to Atikokan, Ontario for a family funeral. Atikokan is north. We’re talking 250km outside of Thunder Bay north. It’s a very small community (and the canoeing…