Recipe Post: Dairy-Free Pasta Salad

My buddy Kat likes to relate the tale of how this pasta salad saved my life. Well, maybe not “save” it, per se, but given it was the only thing I could keep down after an epic bout of food poisoning earlier in the week, it was the Most Delicious Thing I Had Ever Eaten….

Recipe Post: Vegetarian Chickpea “Tuna” Salad Sandwich

I’ve been a vegetarian for a very long time; in fact, almost as long as I’ve *not* been a vegetarian. Needless to say, it’s been a looong time since I’ve eaten a tuna salad sandwich, but I feel like it’s a pretty safe bet to state that this does not taste like tuna salad whatsoever….

Back to Basics: Pantry Staples – Lentils

Now we’ve been dealing with the Virus That Shall Not Be Named for several months now, I feel like I may be somewhat late to the table with this advice. However, I feel that in this new year there may be a few people still out there who have decided the drive-through and Uber Eats…

Recipe Post: Instant Pot Apple Butter

Apple butter is a rich, sweet spread created by rendering apples (and a few key spices) down through long, slow cooking in a crockpot or over the stove until they lose much of their water and intensify in flavour. The name “apple butter” is a bit of a misnomer, as it doesn’t actually contain any real…

Recipe Post: Hearty Vegetable Stew and Dumplings

This recipe is an improvement on a recipe I published several years ago in my post, “Winter Warmth in Stew Form“. With those of us in the Northern hemisphere firmly in winter’s grasp once again, I felt it was time to bring this recipe back out and see what changes I could make to it….

Recipe Post: Gluten-Free White Bread

My friend, Christine, is Hostess Extraordinaire of the popular Canadian podcast Insomnia Radio (you can find it on Spotify!). When she’s not recording in her home-studio, she can often be found working on developing her own gluten-free recipes. While not at Celiac-level of reaction to gluten, it definitely causes her a lot of pain and…