How to make Apple Sauce in Instant Pot

Homemade applesauce. It is so easy in an Instant Pot! It is the best tasting applesauce! You will love it.

Quick Pickled Red Onions

This spicy pickle is perfect for BBQ season….. add it to your burgers, doggies or anything else that goes in a bun.

THE LATEST RECIPES

Prepared simply, Baby Bok Choy, tossed in a spicy lime and sesame dressing, is an easy fresh vegetable side dish. The first veggie bin of the year arrived last week ( #teamleeandmarias 🙏). You would have thought it was Christmas. My son hauled that Rubbermaid...

Strawberry Rhubarb Crumb Cake

Try this classic crumb cake recipe to take advantage of fresh summer fruit like Strawberry Rhubarb. Sour cream adds richness.

Apple Pie Bread

A vegan apple pie bread packed full of apples and cinnamon and drizzled with a sweet cinnamon frosting.. it tastes just like an apple fritter! I love it when everything comes together in a loaf of bread just the way I wanted it to. I wanted this bread to be so full of...

Red Potato Salad with Sweet Corn

TexMex Red Potato Salad - this salad is packed with fresh summer sweet corn, tomatoes and sweet red onions all tossed in a creamy jalapeno and cilantro dressing. This is ready for your next summer BBQ. Let's pretend it is summer and the summer sweet corn is ready.......

Baked Stuffed Tomatoes

Filled with crunchy Itailian flavours, these easy Stuffed Tomatoes make a perfect vegetable side dish. Gluten-free.

Spinach and Goat Cheese Frittata

Frittata’s and I go way back. This Spinach and Goat Cheese Frittata is packed with greens and veggies, is ready in about 20 minutes. Easy vegetarian weeknight meal.

Easy Weeknight Meals

Favourite Peanut Tomato Soup

This is not a typical tomato soup. Peanut butter adds a creamy and smooth texture to this soup. The flavours here are little on the spicier side, highlighting the its sweetness just perfectly.

Barley with Lemon and Kale

Barley with Lemon and Kale. A hearty whole grain side dish full of greens, with lots of garlic and lemon. Love your whole grains!

Butternut Squash Vegetarian Chili {Slow Cooker Recipe}

A warm, slightly sweet and vegan chili. It tastes like fall. And I know it is good for you. Filling and comforting. Perfect for taking the chill from your bones after a long fall walk.

Two-Bite Nutella Brownies

These Two-Bite Nutella Brownies take less than 20 minutes start to finish and need just 3 ingredients. So easy, make them tonight!

Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Butter Muffins

Pumpkin butter gives these muffins the most rich and sweet pumpkin-y flavour. It would not be fall without a pumpkin spice recipe and here is this year's contribution - Sugar and Spice Pumpkin Butter Muffins. I've used pumpkin butter in these muffins (rather than just...

School Safe Snacks for the Kid’s Lunchbox

Just solving your school snack lunch packing emergencies! These are packable and freezable, healthy and nut-free

VEGAN RECIPES

Sweet Corn and Zucchini Salad

Sweet Corn and Zucchini Salad – I love this salad for when it is just too hot to cook. Sweet Corn, fresh zucchini and cherry tomatoes tossed in a herby and sweet-lime dressing.

Chocolate Raspberry Bars

Vegan and gluten-free, sweet and chewy, chocolate raspberry bars.

Muhammara Roasted Red Pepper Spread

Muhammara is an amazing red pepper dip that you can whip together in about 10 minutes with stuff you probably have on hand. It’s robust and unexpected. Gluten-free.

Summer Pasta Salad with Tofu

This is laid back, no-fuss, hot weather food. This is for when it is too hot to cook food. Tofu makes this simple salad a hearty summer meal…

Simple Wheat Berry Lunch Bowl

Chewy wheat berries, sweet pears and crunchy almonds make an easy pack-able lunch bowl.

Apple and Kale Salad with Sweet Garlic Dressing

A fresh and crunchy salad – kale, cabbage and fennel – tossed with sweet cranberies and apples.

FRESH SALADS

Summer Pasta Salad with Tofu

This is laid back, no-fuss, hot weather food. This is for when it is too hot to cook food. Tofu makes this simple salad a hearty summer meal…

Mom’s Cucumber Salad

this recipe, slightly, otherwise this is the same salad my mom has been making since I was shorter than the countertops. Mom always adds sliced onion to the cucumbers. It is really good.

Shaved Brussels Sprout and Cranberry Salad

This Shaved Brussels Sprout and Cranberry Salad has a decidedly holiday twist with the dried cranberries and walnuts. I’ve used a very basic lemon dressing with a little honey to sweeten things up. Nothing crazy. This is easy stuff to throw together. This is one of my favourite ways to serve Brussels Sprouts — raw.