It's that time of year when the garden chilis are being harvested and taking over your kitchens. And while I can't promise you will use up the whole of your bumper crop with this jam, you will get to use a small lot of them. Besides, I'm in love with this stuff.
The infinebalance Food Blog recipes
Chipotle Rice Casserole
This smokey mexican style vegetarian rice casserole is quick to prepare and will serve a crowd. Or split the recipe into 2-4 portions and stored in the freezer for future meals. Easy make ahead black beans and rice bake! I have to admit that batch cooking is really not much my thing. But recipes like this...
Apricot Dutch Baby Pancake
Whip up this fluffy Apricot topped Dutch Baby pancake in the blender and bake it in the oven while fresh apricots simmer into sweet yumminess
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
The Best Carrot Cake
I believe in pineapple in carrot cake. No really, I do. There must also be pecans... but no raisins. Please just don't. Please no raisins.
Cinnamon Rhubarb Coffee Cake
There is just something about the crumbly cinnamon-ny topping. Crunchy, spicy and so good with a good cup of coffee. This version is reduced fat.
Pineapple Coconut Muffins {vegan, G/F}
Loaded with coconut and insanely cute muffins.
Swiss Chard Pasta with Blackened Cherry Tomatoes
Swiss Chard Pasta with Blackened Cherry Tomatoes | A quick and easy weekend night vegetarian pasta dish. This is ready in about 30 minutes.
Rhubarb Crumb Bars
This easy vegan snack bar is vegan and gluten-free. So easy and puts some of that bounty of rhubarb to use.
Key Lime Pie Cheesecake
I've explained this thing I have, I've explained my love for cheesecakes before, so I won't go into details again. But, tell me you get me here. I know you do. There is something so grand, so special about a cheesecake. This cheesecake - with its bright lime tartness - is perfect for the warmer months....
Best Ever All Purpose, BBQ Spice Mix
Serious kitchen efficiencies can be yours with this homemade BBQ spice mix. Use it on everything. Save time in the kitchen
Lemon and Herb Bean Salad
Make this summer bean salad for lunch or for your next summer BBQ or potluck. So easy and fresh.
Vegetarian Lentil Meatballs
These have a decidedly Italian flavour and work well with your favourite tomato-based sauce. Leftovers, with sauce, make really nice veggie meatballs subs.
Chocolate Guinness Cake
I like how not frilly this cake is. This is a cake that feels as dark and stormy as the winter skies. It's cozy like a coffee, or rather a dark stout.
Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
These easy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are perfectly dense and chewy and the perfect recipe for when you want something sweet, and can't decide between a peanut butter cookie to a chocolate chip cookie.. So make both. Use your favourite kind of chocolate chips... but I prefer dark semi-sweet chocolate personally. Put a couple...
Spicy Pickled Red Cabbage
Trust me, you will want to have this spicy pickled red cabbage recipe the next time you are ready for your next summer BBQ. This is a quick pickle, meaning there is no water bath canning involved. But this recipe does take some time. The pickle needs a couple of weeks to reach full flavour,...
Garlicky Spaghetti Squash with Feta and Kale {g/f}
A simple way to serve spaghetti squash. Healthy and fast, cooked spaghetti squash tossed with garlicky kale and tangy feta cheese for a tasty weeknight side dish. This. This is how I like spaghetti squash When it is still spaghetti squash. When we are not really pretending it is something else. But serving it up...
Twice-baked Whole Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Smoky Cheddar
Sometimes the simplest things are the best of things. And sometimes simple can be so much more than just simple....
These are not the sweet potatoes you had yesterday. Nope. These are Roasted Sweet Potatoes and they are sweet and salty and peppery and smoky. These are amazing.
Maple Oat Puppy Treats
Maple Oat Puppy Treats - because your furry friend needs a yummy treat too. Dog treats made with oats, brown rice, banana, flax and cinnamon. Gluten-free and vegan...
Double Chocolate Glazed Donut Cake
A sweet, rich and deeply chocolate cake made with honey and glazed with honey and taste just like a Tim Horton's Double Chocolate Glazed Donut.
Vegan Carrot Muffins
Today I'm revisiting one of our lunch-box favorites! - Vegan Carrot Muffins. In the grand scheme of things I don't have as much time in the kitchen as I would like, so I tend to try new things more often than I go back and remake the same recipes over and over. Especially things like...
Easy Cauliflower + Tofu Curry
Curries are veggie-filled bowls of healthy goodness. This quick Cauliflower and Tofu Curry is no exceiption, just 5 main ingredients.
Pecan Pie Cheesecake with Canadian Whiskey
Pecan Pie Cheesecake - for when you can't decide between pie or cake. Have both! One of our favourite cheesecakes. A whiskey spiked brown sugar cheesecake with caramel pecan topping. This Pecan Pie Cheesecake may be the best cheesecake ever. And I would know because I have made so many cheesecakes. And I really have...
Creamy Tomato Mac and Cheese Bake
This creamy baked tomato mac and cheese is a classic family favourite. Comfort food for cold winter days. Creamy and cheesy, crispy breadcrumb topping with a bit of pesto to make this mac extra special. And its an easy recipe. No separate cream sauce - nope all the ingredients come together to make the tastiest,...
Apple and Radicchio Salad with Sweet Walnut Clementine Vinaigrette
Apple, radicchio, walnuts in a clementine vinaigrette is bright and fresh when it is cold and dreary outside.
Cherry Almond Granola Bars
Today we are paying homage to a granola bar that has saved the day more than once this past month. I am very serious. This will save you from yourself.. As in save you from the vending machine in the lunch room, fries at the arena kiosk, from another bowl of cereal, from near starvation when mom has not made it to the store yet....
Slow Cooker Black Bean and Barley Burritos
I think we all know how much I love taco / burrito recipes and I really love when they can be made in my crockpot. This is super quick for busy weeknights.
Crispy Baked Lima Beans with Garlic
Roasted, crispy beans with roasted, creamy garlic... swoon...
I'm reposting this recipe from the very early days because it is still one of my favourite winter recipes.
Spicy Sesame Bok Choy
Prepared simply, this spicy bok choy recipe shows you my go-to technique for all greens. It's a quick, no-fail, full flavor recipe.
Lemony Split Pea and Kale Soup
A simple vegan soup Split Peas, Kale and all the vegetables you find as you clean out the crisper - and lemon. Lots of lemon.
Cinnamon Sugared Pecans
These sugared pecans are deliciously spicy. They are impossible to leave alone. In fact, batch two is getting dangerously low. You may want to double this recipe.
Sweet Potato and Kale Tortilla Soup
This soup is fun to eat and sweet with a little bit of a kick (very little, just enough) and full of beautiful, colourful veggies. I'm just so please about this. And then you can top your bowl like a taco or a heaping plate of nachos! Seriously, best soup ever.
Double Chocolate Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
These Double Chocolate Whole Wheat Banana Muffins are vegan and fill the chocolatey requirement. And will totally settle that mid-afternoon chocolate craving. In a slightly virtuous way - there is whole wheat flour in there!
Cranberry-Pear Baked Oatmeal
This easy to make breakfast recipe is vegan and gluten-free. Cranberries, Oats, Pears and almonds.... and mostly hands-off too.
Our 8 Favourite Vegetarian Side Dishes for the Holidays
.... here are 8 side dishes that would make me absolutely giddy to see at the holiday table. And they will please the rest of the crowd too. The holiday feast is all about the side dishes anyway.
Chickpea Cacciatore
A vegan version of an classic italian stew. Chickpeas, sundried tomatoes and artichokes in a rich sauce simmered all day in the slow-cooker
Apple Cranberry Muffins
Because, because, because it's Monday and I have apples and the holidays are around the corner which means I also have cranberries. So I made Cranberry Apple Muffins. Just because.
Freezer Black Bean Fajita Burritos
Make a batch of these freezer black bean fajita burritos and have a healthy vegetarian lunch ready to go any time you want. Just like store-bought, but a fraction of the price and you can control what goes inside, each burrito reheats in about 2 minutes. Looking for more make ahead lunch ideas? Check out...
Roasted Sweet Potato Frittata
Frittatas are one of my favourite ways to do eggs for dinner or for a late lunch on the weekend. I find them less fussy than omelets and easier than Quiche since there is no crust to deal with. But still impressive and satisfying. They also do just as well served at room temperature as they...
Roasted Butternut Soup with Coconut Milk
For those busy days when you want that I slaved in the kitchen all day bowl of goodness but didn't have all day to slave away in the kitchen.
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.
Pear and Cardamom Muffins
This Pear and Cardamom muffin falls in the middle of virtuous and fancy.They are relatively low in fat, but drizzled in a sweet glaze... and I've packed them full of fruit.