Mango Coconut Chia Pudding

I’m definitely a chia seed pudding enthusiast. Such puddings are great for breakfast on the go (especially if you make them the night before 😉 ) and/or make for a satisfying and energizing snack. Chia seeds may be puny, but they contain legitimate amounts of protein, calcium, iron, fiber and omega-3 fatty acids. Talk about…

Holiday Cranberry-Cashew Bliss Bars

These bars are the perfect way to use up those cranberries you bought but don’t know what to do with. Let’s be honest, it can get tricky finding uses for these tart little berries. This is why I’m plopping a cran recipe on the blog today, and combining it with orange for a magical result….

Orange & Cardamom Date Squares

Today’s pastry recipe is one for a buttery, crumbly, ooey-gooey and naturally sweet date square in which the cardamom and orange make its flavour pop (I wish I could also say “snap” and “crackle”). Date squares are a childhood favourite, and this is truly the type of recipe a grandma would bake, so I plan…

Happy Hempy Tabbouleh

Ahhhhhh, Lebanese cuisine! I’m crazy about it. Lebanese cuisine is an uber healthy cuisine that makes use of an abundance of fresh fruits (specifically pomegranate, watermelon, dates, lemons an figs), vegetables (specifically eggplant, zucchini and green beans), whole grains and fragrant herbs and spices. My first experience with Lebanese food was as a kiddo, when…

Parsnip, Chestnut & Walnut Loaf

I love how human beings are so inventive despite existing limitations. My one true love, music, is limited to a certain degree by the fact that there are only 12 notes in an octave. However, the thousands of possible combinations with these notes make it such that new tunes are produced daily and they have…

Especially Good Brown Rice With Mushrooms

By now, you’ve probably come full circle to realize that I love adding ingredients to recipes where they wouldn’t normally be found. What can I say, I like being artful and imaginative in the cocina! Especially when it comes to using “anti-ageing” ingredients like matcha. It isn’t my first rodeo when it comes this superfood. I’ve talked about…

Green Pea & Avocado Soup

You’d think by now I’d be drowning in soups (what with all these blog posts on soup). Alas, I’m not, but I’ve used my nutritionist skills to build a makeshift raft and it’s waiting in the corner of the room, just in case I should need it. Today’s soup post is a pea soup post….

Decadent Coffee Cake

I lovelovelove coffee cake. By now, you’ve probably figured out that I have my devious ways when it comes to baking. And by devious I mean sneaking beans into cakes. Beans in cake format are the very best. This coffee cake tastes like a charm and is topped with a stellar cinnamon, sugar and walnut…

Home-Made Almond Butter Lovers Unite

I eat nut butters on the regular: on my toast, in my oatmeal, on bananas,  on pancakes, on waffles in sandwiches, heck, I put nut butters on everything, just the way lots of people drench their food in ketchup/add ketchup to their ketchup. Basically, I’m a nut-butter-eating-fiend. Major advantage: it tastes unbelievably good. Slight disadvantage: it costs “a lot…

Bubble Tea, Meet Your Match

Who doesn’t love bubble tea? Those little tapioca bubbles in this Taiwanese drink burst in your mouth and are perfectly chewy, just like spherical jujubes. Typically, bubble teas are composed of tapioca pearls, full-fat milk and tea, with or without syrup. There was a period of time where I got majorly hooked on these drinks, obtaining…

Secretly Healthy Brownies

These brownies are full of butter, cream, sugar, eggs, etc. (my nose is getting longer). Truth be told, black turtle beans showed flour the door and avocado stole butter’s place. I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious. You’ve never seen brownies like this before!  Black beans have a creamy interior which makes these…

How to Nourish Your Beautiful Brain – Brain Food

Nutritionists often speak of top foods for heart health and bone health, amongst other topics, but a topic that is under-discussed in my opinion is brain health. Here is some food for thought: the top nutrients/foods for that blob of grey and white matter resting in our skulls (geez, poetic much today?). ***B vitamins (especially B6, B9 and B12) are…