The Gluten Free Vegan

When I say spicy, I don’t mean burn-your-mouth-off-spicy. I mean blow-your-tastebuds-away-flavorful. The flavor comes from all the aromatics I threw into this soup but mainly from one spice blend called ras el hanout. What the heck is that? Wikipedia, help us out. My little batch of ras el hanout was given to me by my [...]

This recipe is inspired by a recipe by White On Rice Couple. I heard Todd Porter and Diane Cu present a heart-warming keynote at BlogHer Food ’12 in Seattle last June. Their presentation was easily one of the most memorable for me at this conference. They talked about real life, dogs and emotion. I had [...]

To me, wild rice feels like the quintessential fall food. And almost as Canadian as maple syrup. We’ve got some wild rice growing right here in Saskatchewan too. A few businesses that come to mind are Rusty’s Wild Rice, Northern Lights Foods, and maybe even Prairie Infusions. You can pick up some Saskatchewan produced wild [...]

Hey guys, I offered to help out a food-blog friend that I made when I was at IFBC in Portland this summer with a guest post for her blog.  The guest post was for Claire – The Realistic Nutritionist and she’s awesome. This is the first time I have done a guest post and I’ll [...]

Do you know what the best therapy is? Cooking and dancing in the kitchen. To good music. I keep contemplating throwing down a playlist for you guys when I do posts, but I just haven’t had time. As I was working on this recipe I had a sweet station going which was playing everything from [...]

Autumn. We’re in the thick of it now. Fully immersed in comfort food season, as far as I’m concerned. This soup simply came out of a need to use up the last bit of kale that I harvested from this year’s garden. Speaking of the garden, I am pleased to report it was a success. [...]