Our family’s favorite vegetarian recipes with a healthy dose of dessert!

Easy Vegetable Lasagna

A light and fresh lasagna, packed full of veggies. My favourite vegetarian lasagna. For the times when you just want a fresh veggie based lasagna - this is your recipe. Lasagna does not have to be dense and heavy. This is my favourite vegetarian lasagna....

Strawberry Rhubarb Marmalade

Strawberry Rhubarb Marmalade – a quick and easy small batch jam. Just enough for you and a friend.

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THE LATEST RECIPES

Smoked Cheddar and Cauliflower Frittata

A rich and decandant frittata with smoky cheese and caramlized roasted cauliflower. This one will impress.

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.

How to make Apple Sauce in the Instant Pot

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

Baked Stuffed Tomatoes

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

Roasted Beet & Carrot Salad

A salad or a side dish, this is a colourful way to eat your veggies. Roasted beet and vegetables in a sweet tahini dressing. Vegan and Gluten-free.

Easy Steamed Baby Bok Choy

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...

Easy Weeknight Meals

Chickpea and Sundried Tomato Soup

A hearty and full-flavoured vegan soup. This soup freezes well too – great to have stashed in the freezer for quick meals.

Spicy Turkey Enchilada Soup

A spicy and healthy use for those holiday leftovers. Black beans, tomatoes and jalapenos make a healthy and hearty slowcooker meal.

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!

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

Vegan Lasagna Soup – Slow Cooker Method

This Slowcooker Lasagna Soup is exactly what you wanted on a busy weeknight.A healthy, hearty, mostly hands-off family favourite

Vegan Basil Ricotta

This vegan ricotta cheese is exactly what you were looking for. Basil infused plant-based cheese for spreading on all the things

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…

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.