On Friday, I celebrated Food Revolution Day by throwing a potluck party. I wanted to honour real food and real ingredients, but let’s be honest: it was actually an excuse to make this cake. When you mostly cook for yourself or for one other person, it’s difficult to justify making a dessert that calls for [...]
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Peppermint Patties
I’ve never been a big fan of Valentine’s Day. Probably because I’ve spent most of my life single and feeling grumpy about it. Of course I always loved Valentine’s Day candy, especially the next day when it went on sale. My consumption was insane – we’re talking fistfuls of Hershey kisses and as many cinnamon [...]
Coconut-Crusted Cacao Nibs
When I first sampled these culinary coconut cacao nibs by Mum’s Original in Meghan Telpner’s kitchen, I immediately fell in love. It doesn’t get much better than chocolate dipped in coconut sugar. And the best part? Raw cacao nibs are teeming with antioxidants and valuable minerals like magnesium and iron, so they’re a health-promoting treat [...]
Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake
In honour of the Jewish New Year, I decided to recreate my grandmother’s classic honey cake. Strangely, it was a cake she served as an appetizer, along with orange slices, after everyone returned home after a day of fasting on Yom Kippur. We didn’t bake together very often, but one year I happened to be [...]
Chocolate Crispy Rice Treats
You’ll either adore these, or find them completely gross. That seems to be the polarizing reaction every time I’ve made them. Years ago, I used to bring these to every dinner party, work function or potluck. I had just changed my diet, and they were one of the few healthy recipes I could actually prepare. [...]
Soft Molasses Ginger Cookies
I have a nerdy husband. That means I’m often left alone for long stretches of time while he plays Dungeons and Dragons in a dark basement. Yes, I’m married to an adult man who pretends to be an ogre or a wizard in his spare time. Can anyone out there relate? One Saturday night a [...]
Peach Popsicles
Many, many years ago, before I had my surgery, I was on a mostly liquid diet for almost six months. Would you believe during that time, I didn’t consume a single smoothie? It seems like the obvious choice, but I didn’t even own a blender. Basically, everything I ate were things I later learned were [...]
Chocolate Black Bean Brownies
Is it possible to create a five-ingredient brownie? Almost. I could have excluded the vanilla, but it’s too fragrant and delightful. There’s a fine line between clinging to a challenge and deprivation. And so, a six-ingredient brownie will have to do. This recipe is incredibly easy to pull together and creates very little mess. I [...]
Quick and Easy Chocolate Sauce
Many of us believe it’s faster, easier and tastier to buy food in packages or bottles. I think you’ll feel differently after you sample this drippy, chocolatey goodness. It takes all of 60 seconds to come together and tastes incredible. You can drizzle this over crepes, fruit, brownies or any other dessert, but I absolutely [...]
Avocado Chocolate Chip Creamsicles
I hemmed and hawed over buying these popsicle molds. I asked myself if I’d really use them in the long term, or if they’d merely collect dust in a cupboard after the novelty wore off? Only time will tell, but now that summer is here I can say with certainty that I’ll be making these [...]
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