For a mid-week dinner, if you have the veggies prepped ahead of time, they are actually very quick to make. And they are so versatile, you really don't need a recipe. This is more of a technique. Fill them with any veg you want. You could fill them with leftovers even.
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Broccoli Salad with Feta Cheese and Cherry Tomatoes
Your new favorite summer broccoli and feta salad is this simple salad with feta cheese, red onions, and cherry tomatoes. This salad is bright and easy to make ahead. Vegetarian and gluten-free. Kids love it too. This post was first published in 2015 and has been updated with new photos and new information. Sometimes the...
Easy Vegan Chickpea Tacos
It's Tuesday! Chickpea Tacos are a healthy and affordable weeknight meal. Easy and quick to throw together on a busy night. Perfect for meal prep too. These spicy chickpeas will work with all your favorite taco toppings. Vegan recipe. On the weekend I made a big batch of chickpeas in the slow cooker, see this...
Easy Tortellini Pasta Salad Recipe with Pesto and Arugula
Step up your summer pasta salad game with this easy Tortellini Pasta Salad with Pesto and Arugula. Grab your favourite store-bought fresh tortellini, peppery arugula, sweet cherry tomatoes, and creamy bocconcini cheese, and toss all of this together in an easy pesto dressing. This is a full-flavour salad that takes barely any effort. Make it...
Vegan Morning Glory Muffins made with Sprouted Spelt Flour
"Start your day with a muffin that’s as wholesome as it is delicious! These Vegan Morning Glory Muffins, made with sprouted spelt flour, are a nutritious twist on the classic recipe, bursting with carrots, apples, raisins, and a perfect blend of spices. They’re the kind of muffin you’ll feel good about eating, and your taste...
Hello, Dolly! Chocolate Chip Cookies
Hello, Dolly! Chocolate Chip Cookies are caramel-sweet and full of graham crackers, chocolate, pecans and coconut. This may be the best cookie I have ever made. In our house, we call those layered chocolate, pecan and coconut squares "Hello, Dollys!" Other people call them 7-Layer Bars or Magic Bars. My family loves them, so I...
Goat Cheese & Kale Salad with Couscous
This is a cozy make-ahead kale salad with couscous, goat cheese and apricots. This salad is creamy, a bit sweet, a little crunchy, nourishing and filling. I like to take this kale and couscous salad for a packed lunch during the week. Kale is the perfect make-ahead salad base. But this salad is also great...
High Protein Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls
These high-protein whipped cottage cheese breakfast bowls are a regular part of my weekly food prep. Whipped cottage cheese, with added protein, topped with nuts and berries make a super high-protein breakfast bowl that is filling and easy to grab and go. Meal prepping on the weekend is my non-negotiable. Spending at least an hour...
Easy Lentil and Pea Salad
For all my lunch salad lovers! 🙂 If you're anything like me, you appreciate an easy lentil and pea salad. This tasty and nourishing salad is great on its own, as a side dish, or as a base for your meal. You will love this easy, slightly spicey, healthy lentil salad recipe with simple sauteed...
Canadian Maple Cheesecake
This smooth and creamy maple cheesecake may become one of your absolute favourite cakes. Made with real Canadian maple syrup and layers of maple flavour, this cake is perfect for celebrating fall. Rarely do I pause to consider whether using an ingredient is worth it—if the meal is worthy, the recipe worthy, the occasion? Most...
Baked Vanilla Donuts
Make these easy vegan baked vanilla donuts when you need a quick sweet treat. Perfect for a midweek night. Small batch. Vegan recipe. Or favourite is topped with vanilla glaze and sprinkles! I tend to break out this recipe this time of your before school starts. As my kids have gotten older, the last weekend...
Low-Sugar Strawberry Jam with Honey & Vanilla
Save this recipe for the sweetest of summer strawberries, this low-sugar strawberry jam is sweetened with honey and flavoured with a touch of vanilla. Not too sweet, slightly sophisticated, it won't last long. For more water-bath canned preserves try this Strawberry Rhubard Maralade or my Strawberry Banana Jam. For the love of summer berries. I...
Creamy Spinach Mac and Cheese
A bit unconventional, this creamy spinach mac and cheese is garlicky, rich, and full of spinach. I love this casserole for casual weekend gatherings. Serve as a rich and hearty side for burgers or chilli on colder days or on its own with a fresh salad. Winter months require cheesy and creamy casseroles. And my...
Healthy Winter Salads to Start Your New Year!
Winter can be a dull time in the produce aisle. Your go-to fresh options might be looking a bit wilted and known to be dull and not very fresh when it comes to produce. But you can enjoy fresh and healthy salad in the wintertime. The trick is picking the right winter vegetables. Take a...
Sesame Butter Cookies
Slightly sophisticated, these sesame butter cookies are simple cookies that work any time of the year or on a holiday platter. Not complicated. No chill time. Tahini, honey, and toasted sesame seeds, in a soft almost shortbread-like cookie. You will not be disappointed. The perfect cookie recipe ... that is not chocolate chip. Butter and...
Make your own pumpkin butter from scratch
Pumpkin butter is a delicious treat and is all things cozy and fall. Its a magical ingredient. Makes a lovely gift. Great for breakfast. And it is so easy to make. I've included step by step instructions to make pumpkin butter from scratch using fresh pumpkin a slow cooker. This recipe takes just 5 ingredients...
Pumpkin Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These pumpkin butter chocolate chunk cookies are simply classic chocolate chip cookies with just the right touch of pumpkin and spice. This cookie recipe was made for pumpkin butter. Pumpkin butter is sweet, concentrated and already spiced, and just perfect for these cookies. Add a good healthy dose of dark chocolate chunks and this might...
No-Bake Caramel Banana Dessert
This super easy no-bake caramel banana dessert will become a quick family favourite. Graham cracker crust, bananas, pecans and caramel between layers of vanilla cream. So good and simple. Plan! This dessert, though easy, requires some chill time. You might also like this banana caramel cheesecake recipe. It is one of our favourite cheesecakes. Certainly...
Fudgy Espresso Cookies
A rich dark chocolate espresso cookie with a satisfying punch of bitterness. This is a cookie for those of you who gravitate toward dark chocolate. Not for the faint of heart -- nor for those who like their chocolate on the milder side. This is an intense chocolate cookie. If you love dark chocolate, you...
Dark Chocolate Pots de Creme with Espresso
Save this dessert for a fancy sit-down meal (or maybe just Tuesday) these rich little dark chocolate pots de creme are deceivingly light after a big meal. This no-bake dessert recipe is simple, quick to whip up, and best served in individual dessert cups. The hardest part of this recipe is waiting while they chill...
Roasted Banana Cake with Spiced Rum
If you like bananas, and rum, you will love this roasted banana cake with spiced rum. Roasting the bananas first intensifies their sweetness and flavours creating a rich and sweet cake. And for those of you, who like me, believe a good banana cake is best with a good dose of rum, well I've got...
Dark Chocolate Walnut Blondies
These Dark Chocolate Walnut Blondies are the perfect place for that best bar of very dark chocolate you have hiding in the back of your pantry. Crunchy with toasted walnuts. Slightly salted tops. A truly decadent treat. Looking for more dark chocolate treats, try these dark chocolate crinkle cookies! As a die-hard dark chocolate fan,...
The best hot artichoke dip
This is the creamy hot artichoke dip that I fell in love with years ago. It's super cheesy, served hot, and packed full of spinach and artichokes, ... and of course cheese! ... and it all feels a little nostalgic, like two thousand and five ago. If you like this recipe, you might also like...
Easy Vanilla Chia Seed Pudding
You will love this easy and basic vanilla chia seed pudding recipe. Simple and easy, and make-head, this recipe is perfect for when you are planning healthy breakfasts and snacks for the week ahead. This recipe is sweet and healthy - fully of good for you protein and fibre from the chia seeds. Chia seed...
Apple Cinnamon French Toast Casserole
This apple cinnamon french toast casserole is one of my family's favourite special occasion breakfast treats. And I love it because I can get it ready the night before so I can have an easy and relaxing morning. This baked breakfast casserole is rich and sweet. You hardly need to serve with maple syrup, but...
Carrot Cashew Paté
Cashews and carrots come together in this surprisingly savoury vegan spread. Think paté, carrot cashew paté, and spread thickly on gluten-free crackers, veggies, or slather on a crusty piece of bread as you would butter. Try this vegan paté the next time you need something interesting to add to a vegan charcuterie board. You might...
Apple Butter Bars (vegan)
These simple apple butter bars will become a quick favourite. Full of apple flavour, a simple vegan snack bar that will remind you of a classic date square. These bars are the perfect use for that jar of apple butter hanging out in your pantry. You might also want to try these Pumpkin Butter muffins,...
Healthy Vegan Oatmeal Cookies with Dark Chocolate
These cookies are ridiculously good for you. Full of good for you nuts and seeds and a bit of dark chocolate.
Vegan Cream of Celery Soup
Something about this simple cream of celery soup will capture your heart. Basic, yet sophisticated. Simple ingredients and vegan. You can make this soup in less than 30 minutes. No dairy. Just whole, simple ingredients. Cozy up to a bowl. Secret for the best creamy vegan soup Time and time again, I have been disappointed...
Make-Ahead Kale Salad
I call simple make-ahead kale salad my getting through the crazy salad. This is my power salad. A simple base of kale, beets, cooked whole grains and seeds is so full of good for your nutrition all by itself, but it is also perfect for any other toppings that might strike your fancy. Make it...
Raspberry Lemon Muffins
If you love a classic lemon poppy seed muffin, you will love these Raspberry Lemon Muffins. Sweet and fresh raspberries, light and nutty poppy seeds, and bright fresh lemon. These muffins are just what you needed for a little breakfast treat. You can use fresh or frozen raspberries to make these muffins. More raspberries? Try...
Perfect Lemon Muffins
These are the lightest and fluffiest lemon muffins I have ever had. Not too sweet. Tender, with just the right amount of crust around the whole muffin! A lemon lover's dream! A muffin lover's dream too. These lemon muffins are just perfect for a weekend breakfast treat, but if you have any left after brunch...
Spiced Cranberry Rum Sauce
This spiced cranberry rum sauce is straight-up Christmas. Cinnamon. Cloves. Allspice. Cardamom. A hint of orange. And Rum! Stock your pantry while cranberries are fresh and cheap and get yourself ready for the holiday with this DIY holiday gift. If you are looking for more holiday recipes for gift-giving, try this red pepper and chilli...
Tahini and Greek Yogurt Dip
Whip up this easy tahini and Greek yogurt dip with kalamata olives the next time you have a bunch of fresh veggies. Tahini is the magic ingredient. It mellows the yogurt and adds just enough earthiness to stand up to sharp kalamata olives. Serve with fresh-cut veggies or slather on a pita with greens for...
Mediterranean Eggplant Stew
A simple eggplant stew recipe inspired by the late summer nights and Mediterranean flavours - olives, capers and oregano. Bold and fresh flavours. This recipe can be made in a slow cooker or an instant pot. Serve this stew with rice, couscous, quinoa or even warmed naan bread for a healthy plant-based meal. More vegetarian...
Strawberry Banana Jam
consider -- peanut butter on bananas (i slather it right on the banana, don't you?), or a strawberry-banana smoothie, maybe peanut butter and strawberry jam on toast
High Protein Pasta and Carrot Salad with Cumin
Warm spices and a tangy vinaigrette make this high protein pasta salad a go-to for make-ahead lunches and healthy summer meals. Simple ingredients, full flavour and fresh, this pasta and carrot salad will become a favourite. You can find pasta made from plant-based protein sources in most grocery stores. I've recently discovered all kinds of...
Carrot Mash with Miso
Miso paste takes ordinary carrots to an extra-ordinary place in this easy carrot mash. This carrot mash with miso is simple enough for every day. Just 3 ingredients. Never serve boring carrots again. Looking for more carrot side dishes? Try classic oven-roasted maple glazed carrots or a bit more fancy orange glazed carrots with feta...
Easy Baked Tofu Recipe
Easy baked tofu recipe takes minutes to prep and can be used for quick meals all week. Perfect for meal prep.
Roasted Almonds with Thyme
Thyme Roasted Almonds are addictively good and good for you! With olive oil and sea salt, this is a snack that you can feel good about. Filling and satisfying, roasted almonds are so easy to make. The first time I made these almonds, I made them to give as gifts to a few friends over...
Vegan Iced Matcha Green Tea Latte
Benefit from all the health-promoting properties of green tea in this sweet vegan iced matcha green tea latte. Just like Starbucks but half the price. Matcha green tea is full of antioxidants. Made with organic soy milk, this treat is vegan and high in protein too. This is a perfect afternoon pick me up. Green...
Vegetarian Cabbage Roll Casserole
This vegetarian cabbage roll casserole is a hearty bake the whole family will love. Full of rich flavours and healthy plant-based protein, this vegetarian casserole is a crowd-pleaser, the creamy cheesy topping takes this dish from health food to comfort food. It's a must! This recipe looks long and has a few steps, but it...
Spanish Style Fried Millet
Spanish Style Fried Millet is a spicy, whole-grain take on fried rice. This side dish is quick and simple to prepare and will remind you of those boxes of pre-seasoned Spanish rice and pasta blends. This millet makes a great side dish or as a base to a whole grain buddha bowl for lunch. How...
Oven Roasted Mushrooms with Garlic & Balsamic
These oven roasted mushrooms with garlic and balsamic will lighten up your charcuterie boards and are perfect for snacking. Full of rich flavours of garlic and balsamic, this recipe is easy and quick to prepare. Perfect for entertaining. I make these garlicky oven-roasted mushrooms almost every time we do appetizer night. They are usually the...
Whisky Pecan Pie Bars
Classic, slightly gooey pecan pie bars. These are the ultimate casual dessert. I like mine with a touch of whisky in the filling. Serve cold or warm with a scoop of ice cream. Pecan pie is our of our favourite holiday treats. It really doesn't matter the holiday. Pecan pie seems to come out just...