Piggies! May is Celiac Awareness month, and to celebrate I am helping to launch the BRAND NEW Gluten Free Surprise snack delivery service from Healthy Surprise. In this month's giveaway, you can WIN a Six Month Subscription to Gluten Free Surprise valued at $396! That is SIX boxes full of delicious gluten free snacks delivered directly to your door. My friend Joe has teamed up with some of the best natural food companies in America to bring you a box full of healthy gluten free snacks every month. Partner companies (what you might find in each box) include: Hail Merry, Caveman Bakery, Go Raw, Two Degrees, Home Free, Righteously Raw, Yoga Earth, Bobo's Oat Bars, Skinny Crisps, Two Moms in the Raw, Bumble Bar, Kopali, The Bliss Bar, Twin... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 25 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and today we continue to celebrate our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these delicious gluten free, dairy free, almond cranberry muffins from the lovely Linda Etherton from The Gluten-Free Homemaker. All of Linda's wonderful recipes are gluten free, dairy free, and soy free. My kind of recipes! I LOVE any recipes made with almond flour, and Linda beautifully mixes protein and starchy flours together to create a lovely moist muffin with a gorgeous flavour. I used cranberries in my batch, but you could also use raisins. Either way, these muffins are piggilicious! I use that word deliberately, for I scoffed FOUR in one sitting. YES! I AM a pig!  Oh, and there's more! When... Keep Reading

Piggies, I hope you all had a fabulous Easter. It is DAY 9 of Gluten Free Baking With KichenAid, and even though it is has been the Easter holidays and not the Christmas holidays, I still wanted to feature this delicious gluten free, nut free, soy free, vegan pumpkin bread that can really be enjoyed all year round. When I asked the fabulous Alisa Fleming from Go Dairy Free to contribute a recipe to this event in honour of our KitchenAid stand mixer giveaway, she sent through this "Gluten Free Vegan Holiday Pumpkin Bread" with a note that said, "Wrong holiday but here's a good recipe," to which I responded, "It is never the wrong holiday or day to enjoy pumpkin bread!" Then I tasted the recipe!! WOW! This pumpkin bread is PHENOMENAL!... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 4 of "Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid" in celebration of our fabulous 7-QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway. Today I am celebrating with what one of my piggies called "Gluten Free Baking Royalty." Yes! I received an excited email from a reader after announcing the list of contributors who proudly declared her Royal Status. I also received some emails from other contributors gushing that Carol was their "baking goddess!" So, for those of you who are not acquainted with the great Carol Fenster, here is the scoop! Carol Fenster is a cook, teacher, consultant and author of 10 gluten free cookbooks (see links below) for those with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity. She believes that eating is the most... Keep Reading

Piggies! Today is the 84th annual Academy Awards ceremony and Billy Crystal returns to host for the ninth time! I am so excited! This is just a very short post as I am hosting a brunch at my house before heading off to Skyboat Media's annual Oscar party. My friends Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir host a sensational Oscar bash every year in honour of Gabrielle's father John De Cuir, celebrated art director and production designer who won 3 Oscars and a whopping 11 nominations. Nobody throws a party like Stephan and Gabrielle! Every year they choose a theme that pays homage to John and one of the films or actors nominated that year. Having attended their amazing party last year, I am DYING to see what they do tonight!  Before I head... Keep Reading

Piggies, I cannot believe Christmas is on Sunday! I am like a child opening up an advent calender counting down the days until I can open the big prize at the end. For me, that would be a wonderful day with my mum, dad, family and friends. I am so grateful to have my lovely parents here for a whole month! My mum and I have already been cooking up a storm. Yes, I will be sharing the fruits of our labour over the coming months! Those of you who were following me this time last year might remember me explaining our family Christmas traditions, where we spend every second year with my mum's extended family hosting a four-day-feast in a different Australian city. On the alternate year, everyone spends Christmas with their in-laws. My sister... Keep Reading

Piggies, ONE more sleep until I pick up my mum and dad from the airport and I can start cooking up a storm with my mother. I have already started trialing recipes to share with her. My mother is an AMAZING baker, so I typically save my Christmas baking to do with her, so that I can benefit from her years of experience. She is also a shortbread aficianado. Those of you who have been following me for a while will remember the allergy free lemon shortbread I made as part of my gluten free, dairy free, egg free, nut free Christmas menu that I developed for Super Living Magazine in Australia. That shortbread is wonderful if you suffer from food allergies, but doesn't hold a candle to my mum's homemade shortbread, which unforunately is loaded... Keep Reading

Piggies, today I am sharing the last of my "blender-inspired" recipes in my four month of guest posts with Recipe Relay. Check out this amazing website where cooks create recipes "relaying" local seasonal ingredients off each other. I love this idea. It is so different from other recipe sites out there. I started my series with my zesty ginger lemonade made with whole lemons; then moved onto my creamy vegan butternut squash soup; and then shared (what turned out to be a very popular) raw vegan spicy cranberry mousse.  I had planned to finish my time with Recipe Relay by sharing a delectable vegan maple pecan sweet potato pie that has had me rubbing my belly with piggy pride after scoffing three slices in one sitting on more than one... Keep Reading

Piggies, we are just days away from Thanksgiving in the US and I want to share a delicious raw vegan “eggnog” recipe that comes from the wonderful Tracy Russell at Incredible Smoothies. This is one of my favourite healthy smoothie websites. Tracy and I have a lot of synergy in our approach to health and whole foods. She and I both eat a plant based diet with a lot of raw foods and green smoothies, supplemented with some healthy cooked whole foods. So I was delighted when she agreed to do a trough swap with me this week to celebrate the holidays. She is featuring my vegan ginger cranberry sauce recipe and I am eggnogging it! Check out Tracy’s website. She has almost 400 amazing green smoothie recipes! She also shares her inspiring story... Keep Reading

Piggies, I shared this delicious raw vegan orange cranberry mousse as part of my blender-inspired series for Recipe Relay last week, and I thought it only fair that I share it here.  I love home made cranberry sauce with the delicious blend of sweet and spicy! Cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg just scream autumn to me, and I feel warm and comforted. I was craving those flavours the other day, so I had the idea of creating a super quick and easy spiced cranberry mousse that I could serve at holiday dinners. I have a penchant for quick blender mousses using avocado as the base. “God’s butter” never lets me down and serves as a wonderful blank canvas for inspiration. After blending and tasting this mousse for over half an hour and devouring half of... Keep Reading