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 ...
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Warm Rice Salad with Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Butternut Squash
Warm Rice Salad with Spicy Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Butternut Squash This is the quintessential autumn salad. It’s seasoned to perfection, roasted to perfection and the very perfect vinaigrette is served with it. You could argue it’s the perfect salad. This is how I did it: I preheated my oven oven to 425. I then combined the Brussels ...
Roasted Chickpea and Cauliflower Salad with Rice
Roasted Chickpea and Cauliflower Salad with Rice This is a healthy recipe for Roasted Chickpea and Cauliflower Salad with Rice; coated in a Sweet onion infused Dijon vinaigrette! This side dish comes together in under an hour and serves a crowd. You get crunch from the onion, plus the perfect balance of sweet and tang from the ...
Pickled Beets
Pickled Beets Tis the season to figure out what to do with the abundance of veggies we're blessed with. With that said I must confess I'm not the biggest beet fan. I got these ruby gems in my veggie order and decided I'd try pickling them. You know what??? Not bad, not bad at all my friends. Pickled beets take minutes to prepare and they're ...
Marinated Eggplant with Zucchini
Marinated Eggplant with Zucchini Roasting vegetables really is a great way to transform them from blah to great. With that said, marinating then and then roasting them really is next level! Here I’ve taken simple traditional Greek seasonings and transformed less than favourable vegetables and made them incredible. Feel free to switch up ...
Sesame Garlic Noodles with Crunchy Vegetables
Sesame Garlic Noodles with Crunchy Vegetables Oh what a celebration of flavour and texture! This is a simple side that can also serve as a vegetarian and vegan main. Leftovers taste even better. Feel free to serve this warm or cold and to switch up the veggies to make this your own. An easy recipe ...
Greek Orzo with Roasted Vegetables
Greek Orzo with Roasted Vegetables I have finally figured out a way to make zucchini that I actually like! Usually I find it bland and smushy. I couldn’t decide which vegetable I detested more, parsnips 😖 or zucchini’s but after this dish, zucchini is definitely not number 1 (sorry parsnips 🤢). I got zucchini and eggplant in my veggie order ...
Scandinavian Salade Nicoise with Poached Chicken
Scandinavian Salade Nicoise with Poached Chicken I made this dinner with the help of my mother. My father and Mike had both worked a really long day in the middle of a ridiculous heat wave that hit southern Ontario this summer. My mother and I thought a cold dinner, ie, salad was a no-brainer, apparently Mike and my father had a different idea; ...
Gentle Bok Choy
Gentle Bok Choy I wanted the taste of the vegetables to shine through here. So many times I find myself adding little things to produce a certain flavour rather than appreciating the natural taste inherent in the ingredient itself. So to that, I said, No! Haha, I was trying to go for theatrical drama there! Really though, this dish really ...
Spicy Green Beans
Spicy Green Beans This is a great way to dress up green beans but really it could be used on any veggie you’d like. I made this for Mike and his family and it was well received. With that said, I added too much of the chili flakes (see notes) and needless to say, we drank a lot of water that night! Really though, I choose to believe I was doing ...
Asian-Style Coleslaw with a Sesame Ginger Dressing
Asian-Style Coleslaw with a Sesame Ginger Dressing I never know when inspiration is going to strike. I was at my parent’s house for lunch and my mother served an Asian Salad Kit she’d picked up at a local grocery store. It was delicious but it had a few no-no’s like fried wonton chips; totally delicious but I was pretty sure I could come ...
Bean Sprouts Stir Fry (Chow Mein)
Bean Sprouts Stir Fry (Chow Mein) My guilty pleasure used to be ordering a yummy pizza but I really don’t like takeout pizza as much as my homemade pizza (shameless plug) anymore, so what to do? Well, Mike LOVES Chinese takeout so now I find myself studying the Chinese menu and trying to figure out how to make it healthier!! I love the chow mein! ...