Recipes

Pistachio and Almond Flour Cookes

These cookies whip up in no time at all and are deliciously chewy with a crunchy exterior. I used our almond flour and made pistachio flour with our sprouted pistachios...

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Lace Cookies

These delicious cookies are from Life love and sugar, and they are delicious! They are crunchy, caramel flavoured wafers. For once I didn't change the recipe, I didn't add more...

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Pear (and peach) Custard Tart, dairy and gluten free

This recipe is now loved by a few friends that have pear trees in their yards and struggle with what to do with them. We are the fortunate recipients of...

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Summer-time recipes

Here's a round-up of some of the recipes that go on rotation in the summer. We love anything that we can do on a grill and this eggplant dish is...

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Fermented Cashew "Cheese", vegan and gluten free

I have been back into making my fermented "Cashew Cheez Spread" of late and thought I'd put a reminder here of how easy it is to do! It comes together...

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Delicious Homemade Granola – gluten free

This granola is well-loved in our family. Our kid only recently started asking for granola, and being the person I am, I said "There's NO WAY I AM PAYING THAT...

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Almond Flour Banana Bread, gluten free.

This is our go-to banana bread recipe. With walnuts added it's so delicious. It's from IFoodReal. It's simple and makes for a great breakfast alternative. I sometimes sub some homemade...

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Lemon Raspberry Bars with Almond Flour – gluten free.

This recipe from Joy the Baker is delicious. Her recipes are often a bit too sweet for me, so I dialled back the sugar a bit, as noted in the...

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Chocolate Walnut Cookies

These delicious cookies come by way of Smitten Kitchen. Her recipes are well-tested, tasty, and often quite simple.  These are all of the above, they are also gluten free and...

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Refrigeration, Recipes and More!

It’s a rainy Vancouver day, and all I want to do these days is make soup, drink tea, and snuggle under warm blankets with my cat asleep on my feet....

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Vegetarian/Vegan Shepherd's Pie

This Shepherd's pie is a delicious variation that uses tofu, walnuts and mushrooms. We love it, well actually my partner and I do, the kid not so much!Read through the...

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Almond flour sugar cookies, gluten free.

These cookies are delicious, admittedly, with the coconut flour and coconut oil, they have a coconut flavour, but it is delicate, as are these cookies. The recipe comes from Meaningful...

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Chocolate bark, gluten free and vegan

This is one of my favourite and also super simple recipes to make for holiday treats for friends, family, and my kids teachers. The recipe isn't much of one, but...

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Plum Galette

I have been enjoying baking with the bounty from my farmer friend of late. We had 20 pounds of prune plums land on the doorstep the other day, along with...

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Chocolate Covered Date and Nut Balls

These chocolate covered dates had me singing songs about styling blobs that looked like poop. It takes a certain amount of skill to take a nice picture of chocolate covered...

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(Mostly) Apple, Apple Cake

This cake is exactly that, almost all apples surrounded by the smallest amount of batter. When cooked the apples (or pears, you can use pears instead!) soften and the whole...

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Recipes and more to Inspire you through Autumn

I am on a bit of a pate and nut loaf kick these days. It is definitely a result of the slight (and it is the slightest) change and drop...

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Sunflower Seed Paté

This recipe was based on my memories from when I attended Cégep in a small town outside of Montreal in the '80's. There was a great vegetarian restaurant that I...

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July Recipes to keep you cool!

It's summertime for sure when the popsicle molds come out! Check out some of these great recipes! The picture here is of my attempt at some ice-cream, made using our...

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Brownies, Gluten Free, Vegan and Delicious!

I have been trying to make a brownie recipe that I like, for ages. One that is vegan, gluten free and still ticks all of my boxes of "the perfect...

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