TGIF friends!! Who else is happy the weekend is HEEEEERE!?! What a silly question! Let’s celebrate with some super, quick + easy Vegetarian Broken Spaghetti Risotto 🙂 This weekend, J and I are headed back to where we met in Lille, France. I’m looking forward to a thesis-free weekend enjoying french wine, strolling the cobblestone…
Healthy Chocolate Chip Quick Bread – honestly, friends, I’m obsessed! This bread is so soft, ooey-goeey and full of lots of melty chocolate chips. It’s the kind of quick bread that is just ah-mazing, love at first sight, I need this every morning with my morning coffee/tea kind of bread. Yumm! But let’s back up…
We are going to get freak-ayyy today! No not that kind of freaky, ha! Freekay for this new superfood grain I’m in love with — Freekeh — featured in this super easy. tasty and simple Tomato Freekeh Pilaf. Have you cooked with freekeh before? It’s basically this amazing grain with a killer nutritional profile. I mean…
Do you like buying food in bulk? J came back from a trip to Canada yesterday and my Family stocked him up with all my baking and cooking essentials from Costco and David’s Tea. I think that liking things in bulk is totally an American/Canadian thing. I just like knowing that I have chia seeds…
What do you get when you mix instant mashed potatoes, water and flour? Some of the best and easiest Homemade Quick Gnocchi that you will ever eat! Who ever thought, right!? When I was younger, my mom’s Italian friend would come over and they would spend the entire day in the kitchen making Gnocchi. You…
How about a chocolate spread that tastes so naughty and delicious it tastes like melted peanut butter cups, turned and turned into a delicious, rich and creamy spread?! That is exactly what this Homemade Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread tastes like. Rich, decadent and addictingl-y good, I’m convinced this Chocolate Peanut Butter tastes ah-mazing on…
How was your weekend? We took a trip to the Ardennes and enjoyed a relaxing weekend with J’s family in the woods near the villages of Durbuy and Barvaux. They are both two super adorable and quaint picturesque villages located in the French speaking part of Belgium. We went for a great hike, dined, drank…
Chocolate Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies with only FIVE ingredients! I think we can all agree that peanut butter + chocolate is one of the best flavor combos ever. Peanut Butter is one of those things that we were never allowed as kids (due to my mom’s allergies) and well, chocolate.. enough said. My love for…
Do you have experience cooking in a small kitchen? How about an itsy, bitsy, tiny kitchen that just so happens to be in the shape of a triangle? When J and I first met together in student residence in France we did all of our cooking out of one pot like pan (that we used…
I’m officially back in Belgium and my exams are done, done, done!! My blog posts have been prettyyy sporadic lately due to the holidays, being home and then trying to write my last couple papers which were all due on Monday. Let’s just say, my fingers needed a little break from typing after pulling an…
Since I’ve been home in Toronto my whole routine has been shot out the window. And you know what? It’s kind of nice to have a nice change of pace and switch things up a bit! My chia-seed morning oatmeal has been swapped for pancakes, scrambles, monkey breads and fun family brunches. It’s been great…
Everyday I’m more and more excited that I’m heading home SO soon (15 more sleeps but who’s counting lol!). I’m sure anybody who lives far away can relate. Are you travelling long distances over the holidays? I head home twice a year, once during the holidays and once during the summertime. And the couple of…
These Flourless Almond Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies are so easy, healthy and delicious it’s not even funny. Made with 7 simple ingredients: Almond butter, oats, ground flax seed, maple syrup, vanilla extract, baking powder and chocolate chunks + sea salt if you count that as an ingredient. Which I don’t because technically it’s a finishing touch….
My mom’s mac and cheese was famous growing up. We’d beg her to make us for us when we were kids because Mac & Cheese night was always the best night of the week. And birthday, holidays you name it – I always wanted her to make her Mac & Cheese for every special occasion. I…
The other day I sat beside a cheerful, chatty 11 year old on the train who spoke four languages – four. We conversed in French on the train (his third language) and he couldn’t get over the fact that A) I just spoke two languages and that B) my family just speaks English. He seriously couldn’t get over how…
There is something about baking that is so therapeutic. I love creating new desserts in the kitchen, measuring out the ingredients, tasting the homemade dough along the way (always), adding a bit more or this or that and waiting anxiously for the final dessert to pop out of the oven while my entire apartment is…
This is the best Vegan Creamy Roasted Tomato Soup. The tomatoes are roasted to perfection alongside the garlic and onions, making this soup so rich and flavorful. Who else is already beginning to crave fall soups, everything pumpkin and the cute Fall Fashion that comes along with the gorgeous month of Autumn? I swear I must not be…
I have been a bit off the blogging radar for the past couple weeks because I have been literally travelling nonstop. For the past couple weeks I have had the pleasure of showing my boyfriend and his wonderful family a small fragment of this beautiful country of Canada. We rented a big American SUV (the kind you…
This week has been a whirlwind as I try to complete the rest of my essays before the end of my semester in just a few short weeks. That same feeling of being a student always returns as the jumble for the end of the year arrives. It is that same feeling I would get…
I kinda have an obsession with nut butter. I love everything about it – it’s creaminess, nuttiness, and the way that it tastes devilishly good slathered on practically anything. One of my favourite all-time energy boosting snacks is a sweet banana dipped and slathered with silky smooth almond butter. Even though I love almond butter in…
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