How to make healthy choices every day

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Just the Flax

Not quite a cracker, not quite a flatbread…you can imagine the amount of restraint it required not to entitle this post “crack bread”, especially considering how good they taste.Although this is not exactly bread, and therefore not really fulfilling one of my new year’s food…

Boxing Day Delight

Boxing Day Delight

For some people, the holidays are a time to relax and unwind, gorge themselves on cakes, cookies, and chocolate, and take long naps on the couch watching re-runs of the 90210 Christmas special. Whatever works for you. Personally, I see it as a time to…

Green Giant Cilantro Pesto

Needing an infusion of brightness as we head into the darkness of winter? Here’s your fix: Green Giant Cilantro Pesto. I call it giant because the flavour of this luscious sauce is so enormous it will knock your wintery woolen socks off. Promise.And the bonus…

Twice-baked Cantuccini Heaven

Twice-baked Cantuccini Heaven

As if one needs another excuse to curl up with a steamy, cup-of-anything-hot this season, I’m giving you another: home made cantuccini. And yes, by that I mean ‘biscotti’, sure. But in Italian, biscotti simply means cookie, whereas cantuccini are the twice-baked biscuits we all…

Roasted Roots

I received an email from a reader recently, asking for my suggestions on a raw food “trial” diet, since her and a few friends thought that they would like to give the lifestyle a whirl. Here’s my suggestion: don’t do it!The reason: it’s cold outside!…

Reader Request: My Favorite Recipe – Four Corners Lentil Soup

I have had so many requests for my favorite recipe, that it’s high time I make the big reveal! I have no idea how the idea for this delightful soup even got into my hot little hands, but I have always been a huge fan…

Whole Food Thinking and Whole Plant Eating

Would it sound strange to buy sneakers without the laces, or a sandwich and throw away the bun? Well, it seems to be in this culture of ours, we’ve grown accustomed to eating just part of a whole food, and tossing away the parts that…

Reader Request: Confetti Quinoa Salad

I’m back in the saddle everyone. After a very nice break and some time to think, I realized that what I really needed to do was call in the troops for some healthy reinforcement to cure my writer’s block. I want to thank all of…