Tahini Granola Cookie
Remember these from 8 weeks ago!! Well, you may have missed it, so here it is in print, and here to stay! I use tahini in a lot of my cooking. Tahini is a paste made from sesame seeds –…
Recipes
Whole food, delicious and easy-to-make recipes that you’ll love
Roasted Chickpeas – 6 Ways
We all need to snack right now and toasted chickpeas have the perfect snacking crunch. I love having a little bowl of these at my desk to much on. They taste great and feel healthy to me. I make the…
Cinnamon Pull-Apart Monkey Bread
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately for this recipe specifically. It is a derivative of my Fast and Easy Cinnamon Buns. For those, I roll the dough out on the counter, fill it with the cinnamon pecan filling,…
Brown Rice Sushi Bowl with Sweet and Crispy Salmon
Eating dinner in a bowl is so comforting and the cleanup is super easy! Here’s one of by best “bowl” recipes. A few things about this recipe: While it looks a little daunting, it can be broken down into a…
Perfect Scramble with Mixed Fried Rice, Roasted Chickpeas and Pickled Cucumbers
You don’t have to convince me to eggs for dinner. If I wasn’t making dinner for my family every night, I would have eggs for dinner twice a week for sure. The combination of softly scrambled eggs, flavoured and set…
Passover Bagels
Passover is one of my favourite holidays. It’s a wonderful time for family to get together for an extended meal and enjoy each other’s company. Traditionally, my dad would lead our very large Seder, or Passover holiday dinner. The kids…
Classic Chocolate Babka
Making babka is a project, but well worth it. The base is an Eastern European yeast-risen dough and takes most of the day to make. However, I have a few shortcuts to make it easier and do-ahead. I love this…
Babka Bread Pudding
Babka and Bread Pudding, two of the worlds best foods have finally met. A marriage made in heaven. Don’t depair, when you’ve eaten all you can and you still have leftover (lol, as if), you can repurpose your babka into…
Sheet Pan Cauliflower Kimchi Fried Rice with Sesame Salmon
Sheet pan meals are all the rage and for a good reason. They are simple, easy to prepare, quick and fast clean up. But that does not necessarily mean they taste great. There are a few rules. The flavours have…
Scorched Cherry Tomato Confit
The first time I ever made cherry tomato confit was out of necessity. I was up at the cottage with my extended family. We cook A LOT up there and go through A LOT of food. There are local farmers…
Savoury Spinach, Ricotta and Squash Hamentaschen
Hamentaschen – pronounced huh-min-tah-shun – is the Yiddish word for a particular type of traditional cookie that is made when celebrating the Jewish holiday, Purim. The story of Purim is rather complicated, but the main thing you need to know…
Weeknight Mushrooms in Parchment
Late February… here we are! Probably the hardest month of the year to motivate yourself to do anything. Even though I cook for a living, I still find it hard work up the energy to make a weeknight dinner, especially…