Roasted Vegetable Extravaganza

When there’s 42 degrees of difference between the temperature indoors and outdoors, you know it’s cold enough for heavy-duty roasting in the kitchen.

Coconut and Apricot Granola

Granola should come with a user-warning about how highly addictive a food it is.  I love it alone as an afternoon snack, for breakfast along with some warmed non-dairy milk, for dessert with fresh fruit and yogurt or ice cream and as a baking ingredient added to cookies, cakes and crumbles in place of regular…

Cranberry Corn Cakes

After several months of silence during which I was solicited by our family garden in maintenance and transformation, it’s time to begin anew. New look, new recipes, and forthcoming in the weeks ahead, a new domain name and some new categories to make searching the blog a bit easier. Since there’s no better way to…

Baked Beans Bourgignon

I’ve always though that baked beans and Bourgignon sauce combined would be a match made in heaven.  Think about it.  Baked beans. With wine. And rosemary. And lots of roasted mushrooms. After trying it the verdict is that it’s damn decadent: pure comfort food be it for breakfast, lunch or supper. At breakfast, it can…

Hearty Vegetable Soup

If you keep up on Canadian weather, I’m in one of those places where the “Polar vortex” has kept spring at bay and temperatures sub-zero. So instead of frolicking in dandelion greens and fiddleheads, it’s still winter fare as the snow falls outside. Soup weather: to help with the sniffles and warm the shivering bones,…

Peanut Butter Almond Cookies

If you’ve been following the recipes here for a while, then you know that I’m eternally looking for new ways to use the dregs of making my own almond milk.  I use the pulpy meal in veggie-pâté, in macaroons, in veggie-burger, in bread and all manner of baked goods. This is yet another one of…

Creemy Cauliflower and Celeriac Soup

This is a crowd-pleaser. Even the pickiest of palates is sure to appreciate the rich and unctuous mouthfeel, the discreet spicing and the wintery hue. Paired with a salad it makes a lovely light meal although it could also serve as the first course in a multiple-plate affair. This is also an incredibly simple soup to…

Maple Tea Cake

catherine yronwode is a woman I admire for her encyclopaedic knowledge, her business acumen, her magical skill and her absolutely fabulous honey cake.  It’s rich, moist, filled with spices and sweetness and if you want the recipe it can be found in the Hoodoo Food cookbook. Now given I can never leave well enough alone,…