I have had a love affair with chocolate for as long as I can remember, starting with chocolate milk as a child, and ending up with the flourless double-chocolate cookies that I currently eat as a bedtime snack each night. But ice cream comes in a close second as a fave dessert, and combining the…
Deceptively Simple Stewed Rhubarb
Growing up, my best friend (and next door neighbour) and I would always raid her mother’s rhubarb patch and then happily eat the stalks raw, dipping the end in sugar and chomping away, for a sweetly sour treat. These days I’m slightly more refined in my tastes, and will stew my rhubarb before eating it….
Creamy Sundried Tomato & Kale Pasta, Plus How I Handle Leftovers
Once I joined Instagram (@approachingfood, in case you want to follow me), I began following fellow foodies, and came across someone who had made a creamy sundried tomato pasta sauce. Using that as inspiration, I looked around my kitchen, poked around my fridge to see what dibs and dabs of this and that were floating…
Tropical Coconut & Banana Nice Cream, Plus Adventures in Baby Food
What with the warmer temperatures lately, I’ve been craving ice cream (like my Gluten-free Chunks ‘o Brownie Ice Cream or my No Churn Strawberry Ice Cream) the way I usually crave fruits and veggies, so I’ve had to come up with some healthy options so that I don’t gain back the baby weight that I’ve…
Preservative-Free White Cheddar Popcorn
You know that yummy white cheddar popcorn that is sold in stores in the chip aisle? That’s delicious and gets your fingers all sticky and is rather addictive but also full of preservatives? What if I told you I had come up with a copycat version that was preservative-free? Well…I did! My recipe for Preservative-Free…