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 ...
Let’s Cook 30 | 30 Meals in 30 Days and Why You Should Join this Fun Challenge!
Friends! Can you believe Fall officially begins in one week?! It’s finally here -- my favourite time of year! Every September, I fall in love all over again... The autumnal change in colours, the knitwear and sweaters we get to layer on, and the seasonal change in warm beverages on coffee shop menus just get me. Every, single, time! :) While for some, September can often feel overwhelming at work with colleagues returning from vacation and entering “high productivity mode”, there’s ...
Sunrise Citrus Drink Recipe | Perfect for Get-Togethers
Well, here we are friends, the first week of June. JUNE! Time really does just fly by! I feel like I say that around this time every year. Once after winter and those colder months of spring are behind us, and again in the fall when summer literally just flashes by us with the blink of an eye. Anywho... This time of year, particularly the last week of May, is when my heartmate and I pretty much round everything up around the house, give it a thorough spring cleaning, and get the backyard ...
Local Freshness Delivered | Toronto Online Grocery Shopping
When my heartmate and I first moved to Toronto five years ago, everyone told us we wouldn’t need a car as we would be living in the core of the city, and as such, would be able to walk anywhere we needed to go. So the time came where packed up all our belongings in Montreal, we sold our car, hired movers... and 2 plane tickets later we were living in a new city, (the big city), in our condo waiting for our belongings to arrive. ...
Warm & Toasted Homemade Cinnamon Spiced Granola (V, GF)
Sooooo, I know I’m completely off-season with this recipe because the flavours and profile just scream winter comfort food, BUT, I try not to think of homemade granola as a seasonal snack because it is literally one of my biggest weaknesses. And I embarrassingly consume it in amounts that stretch far beyond a normal portion size. But yolo. Many of you know, I’m sure, that my weakness is for foods that are both crunchy and savoury (i.e., I can make a bag of chips disappear in two seconds flat). ...
Vanilla-Orange Gluten Free Donuts | Easy Vegan Recipe
Sometimes you just wanna take a bite out of a warm, glazed doughnut. Ahhh, yum! A little indulgence from time to time, right? In moderation of course! The tough part about picking up doughnuts at coffee shops or dessert places is that it isn’t always easy to find “healthier” options. Gluten-free, vegan, allergen-free… Sometimes it can be a challenge. These doughnuts are both vegan and gluten-free, and I challenged myself to keep the sugar to a minimum. Half a cup of sugar for 12-13 ...