For those of you readers who are not vegan, today is your lucky day! I have a special Christmas treat for you. It has been a long time since I have posted a non vegan recipe on the site. But it is Christmas, and I wanted to share a recipe that will appeal to absolutely everybody. My dear friend, Karen Morgan from Blackbird Bakery, one of the most accomplished, brilliant gluten free bakers I know has created a decadent chocolate holiday creation just for you. Yes! One of my favourite companies, Green and Blacks sent me some of their gorgeous Fair Trade Dark Chocolate to play (I use their vegan cocoa powder all the time) and because it wasn’t vegan I couldn’t use it. So, Karen came to the rescue. I sent her the chocolate, and she whipped... Keep Reading

No self-respecting Thanksgiving dinner is complete without a truckload of delicious creamy mashed potatoes. I absolutely love them! It is a special treat for me, as I don’t eat potatoes on a daily, or even a weekly basis. Following a mostly alkaline vegan diet, and being susceptible to candida, I eat them sparingly. When I do eat potatoes, I always eat red skinned potatoes, the only potatoes allowed on the Body Ecology Diet, an anti-candida immune boosting regime that successfully helped me rid myself of years of overgrowth of yeast. So, for those of you “B.E” folks this recipe is for you! Instead of using tons of cream and butter, or even vegan butter spread like Earth Balance (which IS fantastic with potatoes by the way) I prefer... Keep Reading

Our Le Creuset Holiday Giveaway is proving to be very popular. I can't wait to see who wins $720 worth of Cherry Red pieces to use for the holidays. I will announce the winner on Dec 11th, so good Luck! Until then, I will continue sharing some fabulous vegan holiday recipes I am making at home with my Le Creuset cookware. As I mentioned when I posted the Spicy Roasted Candied Maple Pecans earlier this week, I was inspired by Bryant Terry’s Thanksgiving menu in the holiday issue of the Vegetarian Times to add some candied maple pecans to a vegan version of my mother-in-law Sandra Hanes’s orange cinnamon sweet potato mash. The results were spectacular, and I had to share the recipe with you. The original recipe contains cream, butter,... Keep Reading

It is DAY 7 of "Gluten Free Vegan Recipes with Breville" and we continue our celebration of this month's Breville Sous Chef® Food Processor Giveaway with the lovely Shelly Lippe from Gluten Free Vegan Journey. I first came in contact with Shelly after engaging with the posts on her Facebook Page. We definitely shared some synergy, so I was thrilled when she agreed to participate in this event and share her favourite recipe, this Gluten Free Vegan Apple Cake with Cream Cheese Filling.  Shelly says of her cake, "This is the most successful gluten free, vegan cake I have ever tasted, or made! It is so moist, delicious, and a definite crowd pleaser! It will be a big hit with the omnivores and gluten-eaters in your life, too! Sugar free... Keep Reading

Inspired by the Full Circle Cleaning Kit Giveaway this month, I continue to share some of my favourite natural cleaning recipes made out of ingredients you can get at the grocery store. This homemade natural eco-friendly laundry detergent is another amazing recipe I got from the folks at Full Circle. Get your stirring spoons out, because this quick, easy recipe is a winner! For many years I have used baking soda, vinegar, lavender oil, and tea tree oil to do my washing. But, when I came across this recipe in the Full Circle Greenhouse, CleanHouse Natural Cleaning Booklet that comes with their Come Clean Natural Cleaning Set, I decided to give it a go, and I LOVE it! This mixture is so easy to make, and your clothes will look and feel... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 30 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid, which means it is the LAST DAY to enter to win the 7QT KitchenAid Stand Mixer! We have had an incredible month of delicious gluten free recipes created by some of the top gluten free bloggers in the world. So, it is only fitting that we wrap up our celebration in style with these SENSATIONAL gluten free peanut butter glazed chocolate midnight doughnuts created by the incomparable Silvana Nardone from Silvana's Kitchen. These doughnuts are rich and DELICIOUS. I had never made doughnuts before, and Scott and I had SO much fun! Silvana will be featuring these babies in the May/June issue of Easy Eats magazine. How lucky are we that we get to sample them first?! Do not miss making... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 29 of Gluten Free Baking with KitchenAid and we celebrate the second to the last day of our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with this delicious gluten free apple spiced loaf created by Jennifer Cafferty from GFree Life and founder of The Gluten and Allergy Free Expo and the Nourished Gluten Free Food Bloggers Conference. This gluten free apple spiced loaf is really a sweet cake baked in a loaf pan! Pure apple deliciousness! This apple cake is gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut-free, and is amazingly moist! Scott and I happily scoffed half the loaf during our "Mad Men Marathon" last night. The other half will be enjoyed when we continue it tonight!  So who is Jen Cafferty? Well, she is one BUSY gluten free maven... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 28 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we celebrate the last 3 days of our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these delicious gluten free vegan garlic rosemary crackers created by Kalinda Piper from Wheat Free Meat Free. These crackers have a delicious flavour and texture using a mixture of almond meal, sorghum flour, and potato starch, and binding it all together with flaxmeal. Aren't flaxseeds a gift from the Gods in the gluten free vegan world?! Just AMAZING! If you have never made crackers before, give it a go! You will be surprised at how easy it is! Kalinda's crackers are wonderful with vegan dips and spreads, or with a delicious salad or soup.  Kalinda says about rolling the crackers, "A lot of cracker... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 27 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid, and we celebrate our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these delicious super easy gluten free vegan pizza buns created by the fabulous Megan Lust from The Gluten Free Vegan. I LOVE Megan's tag line, "It's Gluten Free. It's Vegan. It Actually Tastes Good" and these pizza buns taste GOOOOOOD! They are quick and easy, and Megan even shows you how to make them in her You Tube Video. I absolutely LOVE Daiya Cheese! It just HAS to be the BEST vegan cheese on the planet, and Megan uses it in spectacular fashion here! These pizza buns were gobbled up in record speed at our movie night last weekend. YUMMO! Everybody asked for the recipe! I prompted turned on Megan's video!... Keep Reading

Piggies! It is DAY 26 of Gluten Free Baking With KitchenAid and we continue to celebrate our KitchenAid Stand Mixer Giveaway with these SUPER DELICIOUS gluten free, vegan banana chocolate chip muffins from Jennifer Ward at Be Free Bakers. Jen calls these muffins "Chocolate Monkey Business." I LOVE that name and I LUUUUUV these muffins, as well Jen's proprietary flour blend, "Jen's Blend," that she uses to make them. This amazing gluten free flour blend is composed of five different grains (teff flour, potato starch, sorghum flour, brown rice flour and tapioca flour) and works beautifully in muffins, cupcakes or even pizza crust.  I have this burning desire to champion the cause of this small Missouri business, not only because I used... Keep Reading