Spring is here in the Northern hemisphere, and with it comes our eagerly-anticipated harvest of fresh spring asparagus. There’s nothing like crunching into a delectable, perfectly cooked spear of field-grown asparagus; the slimy, slightly grey-tinged jarred kind simply can’t hold a candle to it. Below are twelve carefully-curated recipes from some of the powerhouses of…
Tag: Dairy-Free
Recipe Post: Crispy Cinnamon Apple Chips
While I usually view apples as an autumn harvest fruit, their longevity when they’re stored properly over the winter months means that they’re usually an available crop for ages. Hence why I have received literally DOZENS in my winter/spring organics boxes this past year, and why my kitchen is currently somewhat awash in Fuji, Royal…
Recipe Post: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
The title of this recipe is quite a mouthful on the best of days, but if you take the GF and DF out of the name it’s still a yummy quickbread that also makes delicious and substantial muffins. This recipe can also easily be made using dairy and regular flour and oats, but it’s nice…
Recipe Post: Mincemeat Muffins
There are few more traditionally historical British Christmastime recipes as a mincemeat (“mince”) pie or tart; but outside of the British Isles, they’re not as well-known. In a nutshell, traditional mincemeat pie was a savoury pastry, and did contain actual meat; the pies were originally quite a good size, filled with a mixture of finely…
Recipe Post: Roasted Vegetable Soup
It’s looking promising for spring around these parts recently (jinx! I need to knock on some wood, STAT), but the weather is still occasionally nippy enough in my region of Canada that a lunch time bowl of soup is still very inviting and comforting. This is one of my very favourite soups, in that it’s…
Back to Basics: Pantry Staples – Tinned Tomatoes and Tomato Products
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…
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