
Generally, I don’t dig raw food. I find it hard to digest and truly, I just prefer the texture of slightly mushy cooked veggies. I am a toddler, apparently. Great news, though: this isn’t the case for everyone! If you…
Generally, I don’t dig raw food. I find it hard to digest and truly, I just prefer the texture of slightly mushy cooked veggies. I am a toddler, apparently. Great news, though: this isn’t the case for everyone! If you…
I’ve been working lately with a number of clients looking to create simple, quick weeknight dinners – half-planned and shopped for, and half thrown together using whatever’s in the kitchen. There’s something nice about knowing you have something nourishing and…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about food and its connection with guilt and body shaming and self-loathing and control and feelings of wrongness. Nice and light, right? ;) It seems like almost every woman I have spoken to lately…
I read a great article this week from Summer Tomato on finding your ideal weight. It’s something that I – and I think most people I know – think about a lot. Despite being on this crazy food-body-health journey for…
Can we talk for a second about mashed potatoes? They’re sort of the quintessential comfort food, and let’s be real: there’s not a ton going on with them in their plainest form, neither nutritionally or in terms of taste. They’re…
Aaaaannnnddd… we’re back! Thanks so much for your patience the last couple of weeks as recovering and travel have taken over blog time. I have a whole slew of fun new recipes for the month ahead (how is it almost…
I’ve discovered in my late-20s-ish-ness – which is perhaps due to the same thing that makes me say “BLENDER SALE?!?!!?” and “EARLY BEDTIME!!!!” with the enthusiasm I used to reserve only for Chinese food buffets and Christmas – that I…
This has been a month of trying to pack our lives full of as much Mexican food as possible, like these vegan tamales. I am embarrassed to say how many times we’ve found excuses to return to Gracias Madre in…
The test of a solid tofu recipe is when non-vegans actually enjoy it. Like, finish it and then Facebook you about it afterwards. This was the case following a dinner with friends a few weeks ago and I was relieved…
A couple of weeks back, after a conversation about comfort food, a lovely friend asked me to veganize a traditional Shepherd’s Pie. Oh man, challenge accepted. I love revamping old recipes to make them better for us, including swapping in…
I am obsessed with soup. I don’t know how this happened. At some point in the last month, my body decided that soup is the answer to everything: perfectly timed, as it’s starting to get a little chilly. The sweaters…
In the spirit of fall – and in the spirit of pizza – here’s a delicious way to start the week! We whipped this up a couple of weeks back for a dinner gathering with our lovely neighbor, and as…
If eating rice ever makes you feel kind of blergh, but you still totally love the experience of eating it, cauliflower rice might be your new best friend. I discovered this crazy trick several years ago when I cut most…
I love pesto. I think we should put some kind of law in place that requires pesto to make an appearance at all meals. Or maybe we don’t need a law. Maybe we just need to make pesto at home…
Comfort food at its finest – and honestly, one of the things I liked least as a kid – meatloaf is a wintery staple. Dip it in ketchup and serve with buttery mashed potatoes, and you have the perfect 1950s…
One of my favorite things about cooking with veggies is that they are often more than they appear. Kale can become chips, leafy greens can swap in for bread, squash can become the base for pizza crust, and perhaps my…
It’s 6:00pm. You’re done at work and heading home, dreading the task of making dinner that lies ahead of you. You’re exhausted, you’re a little irritated (traffic/transit/the weather is just irksome today!), and you’re famished. The last thing that sounds…
There’s a funny relationship between hunger and deservingness. It comes up all the time in meetings with my nutrition clients: this feeling that “I shouldn’t feel hungry [yet]”, or “I didn’t do enough today to be hungry”, or even “I…
I shared a post a few days ago sharing some thoughts on The New Greenmarket Cookbook, a really valuable resource for seasonal, local recipes and how to shop at the farmers market, no matter where you are. In perusing the…
Lately, if you’ve noticed, the carbohydrate content of many of the recipes I’ve shared has been higher than usual. I think this has everything to do with being 7000% more famished than usual, on account of all the training for…
Switching to a plant-based diet can sometimes mean parting ways with foods we used to love… but perhaps foods that weren’t doing us a whole lot of good. Mayonnaise is one of those things. It’s not that I have so…
So, this one time (last Sunday), I tried to make gnocchi. It did not work. I think – on account of not using a gluten-y flour, or enough binding – my little potato-almond butter pasta bits weren’t sturdy enough to…
I’ll be sharing some themed posts this week on the blog – namely, how to tackle sugar cravings. It’s been coming up a lot in my practice with clients, and it sounds like the sugar monster is on a bit…
This spring, I conquered my fear of risotto [read about it here]. This is a continuation of my adventures in overcoming kitchen-terror… I’ve been teaching classes for the last few weeks at Suite ThreeOhSix, a vegan supperclub and cooking academy in…
Happy Canada Day [she says from below the 49th parallel]! If you’re Canadian, I hope you’re having a glorious day celebrating all things Canuck; if you’re not Canadian, I would encourage you to do something traditional like drinking maple syrup,…
For everyone who’s met me in person, you know I’m not a very fancy person. I am quite comfortable in yoga pants [in fact, part of me wonders sometimes if I do this work – a little bit – because…