This time of year always promises the tastiest root vegetables. After the first couple frosts, starchy vegetables like carrots and parsnips convert their starches into sugars, resulting in the sweetest roots you've eaten all year. At least this gives us something to look forward to as the days get longer and the nights get colder! If you're ...
Mixed Mushroom & Spinach Chickpea Scramble
Chickpeas are definitely my favourite legume. I don't know what it is about them. If I had my way, they are the only legume I would ever eat. But eating the same thing all the time definitely isn't ideal, so I force myself to buy different types of legumes and I never let myself make two batches of chickpeas in a row. I make a batch of beans every ...
Immune Strengthening Soup
After almost an entire year of good health, I came down with a cold only two days after arriving back in Canada from our vacation. For a week I took all sorts of supplements in an effort to kill the bug, boost my immune system, and fight it off. I took everything from medicinal mushrooms and herbal tinctures, to sulforaphane and Vitamin D. And it ...
Indonesian Spiced Eggplant & Tempeh Curry
I'm just loving eggplant lately. I went all summer without buying any, and now I can't get enough. I love its deep purple colour, and its ability to absorb flavour in dishes. The phytonutrient that gives eggplant skin its purple colour is an anthocyanin, a group of compounds that give foods like blueberries, cranberries, red cabbage, and eggplants ...
