Main Dish
02 Aug Sweet Potato Frittata
Frittata’s aren’t just for breakfast. Enjoy this tasty recipe any time of the day. Serve with a large salad for a complete dinner meal or take it cold along with some greens for lunch. The options of your frittata fillings are endless. Use veggies that you...
30 Jun Sweet Potato Black Bean Salad
Although this is a salad, and can certainly be used as a side dish, it is loaded with fibre, protein and complex carbs, so this makes a wonderful main dish meal for those times you want to keep things simple. What you need 2 sweet potatoes, peeled,...
03 Jun Baked Portobello and Egg Stack
Go on break the rules! This dish goes for any meal; breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner. There's no real recipe for this dish. You can make a "mushroom stack" out of any thing you like. The options are literally endless. Here, I used a large portobello mushroom cap,...
10 Dec Sweet Potato Rösti with Smoked Salmon
This recipe for sweet potato rösti was inspired by Food & Drink magazine. I recently hosted a family brunch using some recipes that I modified from LCBO's Holiday 2015 edition of Food & Drink. This is one of the 8 recipes that were a hit among my family. A...
12 Nov Roasted Root Vegetables on Quinoa
Root vegetables - the sweetest of them all I love autumn time here in Niagara. It's a time of shedding what we no longer need, nestling down and getting cozy at home. The harvest of the root vegetables that are abundant now lasts us throughout most...
08 Apr Nut Pate Sushi Roll
I believe you can wrap anything in a nori sheet and call it sushi. It's fun & quick with endless options, so let your imagination soar. Just like you can make countless versions of sandwiches, consider the nori wrapper your hum drum bread and wrap...
15 Dec Curried Coconut Cream Celery Soup
It's winter and soup seems to fill my soul as much as it warms my bones. This snowy December day led me to work from home most of the day and clean out my refrigerator of some tired celery. What you need 1 Tbsp coconut oil 1 whole...
06 Mar Herbed Meatballs
What you need 1 lb ground turkey or chicken (organic) 1/4 c rolled oats, ground into fine flour 1 Tbsp chia seeds, soaked in 3 Tbsp water for 7 minutes or 1egg 1 Tbsp fresh thyme, finely chopped 1 Tbsp fresh basil, finely chopped 1 tsp oregano 1 tsp cumin 2 cloves garlic,...
04 Nov Spicy Sweet Potato Soup
A hearty plant based soup for vegetarians or vegans...
15 Oct Immune Boosting Soup
The making of soup is a lost tradition, yet nothing seems more soothing than a bowl of homemade soup that has been prepared with love. Many cultures start their day with a bowl of soup or broth. You don't have to think of soup as...
22 Feb Wicked (Good) White Foods
As a holistic nutritionist, I spend a lot of time talking about the deadly whites in our SAD diet (Standard American Diet); their impact on our health, the processing that occurs as a result of industrialization of food and how their deficiencies far out way...