Are there any perks to food blogging? you ask. For one, you eat really well. And with each successful post, there are several moments of euphoria — when the dish looks amazing, when the photo looks amazing, when the dish tastes amazing, when you figure out what to write in the intro, when you click…
Cookie Dough – I love you
Have you been to a cooking class in your local grocery store? I’ve found fantastic recipes and superb chefs, such as culinary instructor and certified nutritionist Abigail Nagorski, at Whole Foods Market. Abigail delights everyone with her whole food cookie dough. While I abhor regular cookie dough’s sickeningly, cloyingly sweet flavour and texture, these Cookie Dough morsels are heavenly little…
Chia Coconut Delight – Overflowing Passion
I was still sleeping when I realized that Kegel exercises need to be renamed. If we’re to take the exercises seriously and make practice a priority, then let’s give them a memorable name. How about P hugs? That kind of imagery should keep you focused. Why is this epiphany coming to you in a food…
Coconut Cacao Bark – NEED Chocolate?
Are you tired of stealing Halloween chocolate from your children’s booty after a hard night of trick or treating? Do you feel guilty eating up the treats you bought to distribute, then turning away neighbourhood kids empty-handed? If you’ve answered yes to either of these questions, then you need to make a little time in…
Rhubarb with Molten Marshmallow
Here is the question: Can you fear what you love? I say “yes.” I love cream–but I also fear what it can do to my midline. So I search for alternatives. “Seek and you shall find,” as they say. While in Paris, I had the most delicious rhubarb dessert. The base was a shortbread cookie,…
Chocolate Coconut Love Bites
On Valentine’s Day 2013 my dad turns 90. He’s a gracious 90, easygoing and content. Visiting him in the nursing home where he’s been living for almost a year is touching. While it’s hard for the residents to relate easily to one another, they all seem to relate to music. Every Friday The Anniversary Song is played…