I present: the Hemp-Seed & Kale Antioxidant Smoothie Bowl! It’s super-yum, super-easy, and so on trend that it’s practically on fleek. I don’t have a crystal ball (or a crystal mixing bowl, for that matter) but I do read a lot of food blogs. Between the food blogs and Pinterest, you can totally see trends emerging, with pumpkin-spice-everything being…
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Making the Most of Leftovers: Easy Pickled Vegetables
Given that I’m not a morning person, I usually prepare the day’s lunches the night before. Tonight I was making Thai spring rolls, and had some sliced green peppers left over. And given that I have a waste not, want not philosophy when it comes to food, you know I had to use them up…
Memories of Meals Past: Homemade Soft Pretzels
Every now and then some recipe comes across my facebook feed that I really want try. In this case, it was a post by The Artful Parent that talked about the soft pretzels that she made with her daughter. They used Alton Brown’s pretzel recipe and raved about it so much that I had to try…
Kiwi-Mango Vanilla Pannacotta & Stomachaches ‘R’ Us
This week my bake-a-long group is making Mango Vanilla Pannacotta, from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. For a few days before I made it and wrote this post, I was trying to think of a ‘hook’ for the post, something to make it funny, or tell a bit of a story, but nothing came…
Baby, It’s Hot Outside: Double Layer Ice Cream Brownie Bars
Last weekend, there was a bit of a heat wave in Toronto, and temperatures hit the 40’s (Celsius) with the humidex. When you stepped outside, you were hit with a wall of humid heat, and you progressively wilted the longer you were outside. I was running errands and luckily remembered to pack that old-fashioned thing,…