Vegetarian

Roasted Cauliflower, Pomegranate & Hazelnut Salad

This roasted cauliflower salad serves as my reminder that good recipes are flexible. Good recipes invite experimentation. They serve as helpful guidelines, not rigid rules. With titles like “The Best This” or “The Ultimate That” it’s easy to forget no one recipe has a monopoly …

Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Original, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Winter

Soup Sisters: Spread the Love

When is a bowl of soup not a bowl of soup? When it’s a community coming together in support. Soup Sisters is a registered not-for-profit organization with 12 chapters across Canada. Through the help of their volunteers, they have delivered more than 100,000 containers of …

Book review, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Legumes & Lentils, Original, Recipes, Savory, Soup, Vegan, Vegetarian, Winter

Pampered

If I come back as a vegetable I want to be kale. Ruffly, versatile, pretty kale. Not only would I be my favourite colour (green), I’d finally have unstoppable curls — something I can’t achieve even with hot rollers and a perm. But I’d be …

Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Original, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Another Breakfast Soup

Soup for breakfast is working. Sort of. But after a couple of weeks of savory Asian Chicken and Quinoa Soup, and a gentle Lentil & Lemon Soup, I’m wanting to start my day with something sweet. While I crave a raspberry danish or waffles dripping …

Autumn, Book review, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Savory, Soup, Vegetarian

Pushing Boundaries

I did it. Despite containing three ingredients I’ve never used before, I made onion bhaji. And I pronounce them to be good. Make that “very good.” Andrew, who inspired the selection, claimed they were “delicious” and “as good as the restaurant’s.” So, with a flourish …

Appetizer, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Original, Recipes, Savory, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Rosemary Almond Crackers

So-and-so can’t touch gluten. Whatshisface is allergic to eggs. Dairy gives Thing-gummy a rash. And Hoojicky? Garlic sensitivity. Happy Holidays, indeed. I feel for you. I do. Having been on both sides of this equation (I have played the role of allergic guest and accommodating …

Appetizer, Baking, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Snack, Vegan, Vegetarian

Trying Again – Lazy Quinoa Lasagna Recipe

For some reason, the recipe for slow-cooker vegetarian quinoa lasagna didn’t attach to its post the other day. Could have been technology. Could have been me? I choose to blame technology. Either way, I had people asking for the recipe. So here it is.

Egg-free, Healthy Choice, Mains, Pasta & Grains, Recipes, Vegetarian

Lazy Quinoa Lasagna

Mairlyn Smith owes me a new crockpot. Sort of. She didn’t actually come to my house and break mine, but because of her I learned just how bad my old one was. At her recommendation I made the slow-cooker lasagna from The Vegetarian’s Complete Quinoa …

Egg-free, Healthy Choice, Pasta & Grains, Recipes, Savory, Vegetarian

Fig and Olive Tapenade

I almost feel like I’m cheating on this one. It’s far too easy to be this tasty. But on second thought, it’s a perfect illustration of Eric Akis’s approach to food. It delivers what he calls “obtainable goodness”, is suitable for all levels of cooks, …

Appetizer, Christmas, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Recipes, Snack, Vegan, Vegetarian