When I think of winter, I think of chocolate! Actually pause, rewind, I think of chocolate all year round but I especially like to indulge in it during the holidays and throughout winter! Hot chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate fudge brownies. The sweet tooth kicks in and all I want is that rich, smooth, cocoa flavoured everything! When we used to live in Toronto I would stop by Greenhouse Juice Co. and order their Rococoa smoothie which was heavenly! It had “hidden greens” in ...
Setting Sustainable Intentions for the New Year
I have to say, year over year, my New Year’s resolutions look pretty much the same... Eat healthier Get into better shape Read more Reduce waste Spend less time watching TV / on devices One thing that’s remained a priority over the years is the increasing need to adopt sustainable behaviours--both big and small actions we can take to reduce plastic, water, and energy waste. Part of the reason for this is that if we don’t start to curb or correct our behaviours now, ...
We Moved!! Selling our Home in Toronto! Next Chapter.
F i n a l l y ! Now that the physical move and the stress of the sale are behind us, I feel like I can finally sit down to write this blog post to share it with you all. These past few months have been such a roller coaster (adding to the personal and professional challenges, re: chaos, that 2020 has brought). Our close friends and family have known for a while now that our plan had been to *someday* move back to Montreal--the city in which my heartmate and I met, and called home for the ...
Vegan Butter Chicken Recipe | Easy to Follow
Creamy, buttery, rich, exotic flavours. When I was a teenager and I used to work at the mall, there was this Indian fast food restaurant in the food court that was so good--they always had a lineup! Every day on my lunch breaks I would run over there to try and beat the rush, and the only thing on the menu that I never got sick of ordering was their butter chicken on rice with a side of warm naan. Mmmmmm. Oh. Em. Gee. It was a foodgasm, every single time. But making traditional Indian ...
Maple-Pecan Cinnamon-Chai Doughnuts with Rose Petals Vegan Donuts
Maple-Pecan Cinnamon-Chai Vegan Doughnuts with Rose Petals…. Now that’s a mouthful! (pun intended) :) Anytime I think of doughnuts... those classic pink glaze with rainbow sprinkle ones that Homer Simpson used to eat always come to mind! Is that weird? ...
Avocado-Zucchini Spring Garden Salad
Happy Cinco de Mayo! With the ongoing climate of COVID-19 impacting how we celebrate occasions from Easter to Passover to Ramadan, and more, one constant throughout each holiday is food. Food unites us, it’s universal, and it gives us a way to celebrate something in our own special way. ...
What Really Happened This Past Year | Answering Your Questions
Hi everyone! I’m happy to finally be back at my desk, hands at my keyboard with a cup of tea steaming and ready to pour myself into this post. The post is geared at unearthing what really happened in the past year to help address questions I've been getting for a while. Over the past year I’ve been getting a lot of questions from you, from close friends, family, and even recently from colleagues. Yes, colleagues! The nature of most of the questions is - 'what’s been going on with ...
How to Earn DOUBLE the Points on Dining & Entertainment Purchases in 2020
Confession: I’ve been a little naughty lately! Naughty in the “spending money unnecessarily” category, to be exact. Honestly, I don’t think my spending habits have any particular pattern to them, other than AT TIMES I can get a little excessive, and spend more than I probably should. Maybe it’s seasonal? Maybe it happens in waves? I have no idea. But the same can be said about making my meals for the week vs. buying lunches. Some weeks I’m really good and beyond diligent... having my meal ...
How to Make Vegan Pumpkin Scones [Easy *Actually Delicious* Recipe]
I feel like over the last few years ‘Pumpkin Spice’, as a flavour, has gotten somewhat of a bad rep! Maybe it’s been overdone… maybe it’s on too many coffee shop menus… maybe it’s been infused into too many different types of foods… I don’t know! I do know that to me, October is the month for allllll of the #pumpkinspice baked goods! That’s one food category from which you just can’t take the pumpkin away! Pumpkin scones, pumpkin loaves, pumpkin soups… and I’m just saying the pumpkin timbits ...