Creamy Cauliflower Sauce You’re going to flip when you make this recipe; it’s so easy and so delicious and so creamy. In case you’re wondering, it doesn’t taste at all like cauliflower (sorry cauliflower). This is a great base for low fat mac and cheese, coming soon! Serves 6 2 Cups sodium-reduced stock (I used beef) 1 Head of ...
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Creamy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Creamy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce This can be a dip, a spread or a sauce and it’s so good! You get sweetness from the honey and a little crunch from the green onion, this is great paired with something spicy. Makes about ¾ cup 1/2 Cup fat free sour cream 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp grainy Dijon mustard 1 tsp Dijon mustard 3 Green onions ...
Baked Potatoes with a Cheesy Broccoli Sauce
Baked Potatoes with a Cheesy Broccoli Sauce Cheesy potatoes and you’re supposed to believe these are healthy? Yup. The cheese sauce is thickened with a slurry and then old cheddar is used sparingly; when you use a strong cheese you can get away with using less. Also, by using a full head of broccoli you really stretch the amount of sauce and add a ...
Honey Mustard Glazed Brussels Sprouts
 Honey Mustard Glazed Brussels Sprouts This is an incredibly simple side that is sure to impress! You get the nutty flavour from roasting the Brussels Sprouts and then you get the tang from the vinaigrette, a great combination. Serves 4 ¼ Cup Cider Vinegar 1 tbsp honey 1 tbsp grainy Dijon mustard 1 tsp Dijon mustard 1/3 Cup extra virgin olive ...
Roasted Vegetables
Roasted Vegetables Every week my family and I go to my parent’s house where my mother and I make dinner for everyone. For some reason I always end up using the oven which drives my dad nuts. Why you ask? Why does that drive him nuts? Well in the builders infinite wisdom the smoke detector is 2 feet from the kitchen door so if you use the oven or ...
Lemon-Caper Sauce
Lemon-Caper Sauce This is a fabulous sauce to use in place of regular, boring (but still yummy) tarter sauce; I made this when I had my Spicy Scallops; yum! Makes about ½ Cup ¼ Cup Fat free plain yogurt ¼ Cup Light mayonnaise 1 tbsp capers Splash (about a ½ tsp) of the caper brine The zest of half a lemon The juice of half a lemon Pinch of ...
Japanese Aioli
Japanese Aioli Aioli is simply a flavoured mayonnaise. When I was pregnant with my daughter I desperately wanted to make homemade mayo, the problem? I couldn’t get it to work without the egg yolk and in case you didn’t know; raw egg is an absolute no-no when you’re pregnant. So the other day when my children and I were holed up, avoiding the ...
Spaghetti in a Rose Sauce with Grilled Chicken
Spaghetti in a Rose Sauce with Grilled Chicken I love recipes that use previous recipes and come together as something completely different. Here the addition of a little Alfredo sauce transforms the Tomato Sauce into a Rose Sauce, yum! There is less pasta here and more grilled lean protein; this will help support any healthy New Year’s resolution ...
Greek Potatoes
Greek Potatoes                 My very good friend is Greek and her wonderful mother shared her family recipe for Greek Potatoes with me and said I can share it with the world! Here it is, check out the notes for the more authentic recipe because I went with what I had on hand. Serves 4 The juice of half a lemon 2 tbsp ...
Asparagus and Tomato Salad
Asparagus and Tomato Salad In my world you can never have too many recipes for tomatoes or asparagus.  Here I combine my two favourite veggies (well 2/3, I love broccoli too and apparently a tomato is a veggie and not a fruit; I’m staying out of that debate!). This dish is very versatile; see the notes! Serve 4-6 2 tbsp extra virgin olive ...
Green Salad with Creamy Greek Dressing and Avocado
 Green Salad with Creamy Greek Dressing and Avocado I can’t stress enough how much I love a good salad, especially one with cheese and a creamy dressing. What? I am human; I love cheese and I love creamy yummy sauces. The problem with that? Well, it’s really not good for you! Here I’ve made this dressing completely fat free and use the avocado in ...
Roasted Winter Vegetables
I have a confession to make; I don’t like root vegetables. There I said it. You’ll never catch me eating a cooked carrot unless it’s in my Beef Stew and even then, it’ll be a small piece. I can handle a sweet potato in small doses if its prepared like my Roasted Sweet Potato recipe. I tried the parsnip here, to me it tasted like a lemony potato, ...