A sure thing about life is that you never know what might happen next. And so, suddenly, I have found myself juggling the final month of classes for my masters degree with a shiny new full time job. The situation is equal parts overwhelming and amazing, and the job, I am in love with more […]
game changing hummus
Our kitchen has a large window that faces into our building's courtyard. Across the courtyard from our apartment, but directly in front of our kitchen window, are the balconies from another building. One of these balconies belongs to a couple who, each and every single day, bring all of their blankets, pillows, and rugs outside […]
raw chocolate pudding
When I'm going through tough times, I have a tendency to look for the answers in a bowl of pudding. I'm not advocating for emotional eating, but sometimes you just need a little something, you know? And pudding, at least the way I make it, makes for a fine little something any day of the […]
Moroccan Carrot Salad with Chickpeas
This Moroccan carrot salad with chickpeas is a fresh, vibrant twist on a classic. Tender carrots and creamy chickpeas are tossed with chewy farro, sweet and tangy prunes, and plenty of bright, fresh mint. A spiced honey-lemon dressing brings the whole thing together for a nourishing, satisfying carrot salad you’ll want to make on repeat.
live well - finding balance
Many people, usually people who don't know me all that well, assume because of my chosen field that I eat a 100% healthy diet all the time. Folks! No, definitely not. I do, however, try my best to find balance. Balance means different things to different people. I eat a lot of vegetables. Like, a […]
Orange Braised Broccoli
Hey there! Happy New Year! Gott Nytt År! I hope you're all doing tremendously well. Thanks for standing by while I took a little break - it wasn't my intention to take one, but such is life. And really, if these views were what were to your immediate left and right, would you want to […]
Roasted Acorn Squash Salad
Roasted Acorn Squash Salad with winter greens, crumbled cheese, and toasted seeds served in a roasted squash bowl. Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Cheerio! I'm writing from my sister's flat in London sipping on a mimosa before we all (Paul, my sister Emily, my brother-in-law Andy, and I) head back to Heathrow and hop on […]
spicy chocolate snickerdoodles
I've officially reached the time of year when my diet consists of more cookie dough than not cookie dough. I'll tell ya, I feel pretty gross. The problem is that last week I baked 500 scones and at least as many cookies for a holiday open house, and there was a lot of, err, sampling […]
five minute feel better miso vegetable soup
You know that cold that has been going around? The one everyone in class or at your office has had? The one I was so smug about having avoided, particularly after having spent hours sitting next to sick classmates, working with sick kids, and sleeping next to a sick husband? Yeah. It caught up with […]
Live Well - You and I and BMI
These days I’m attempting to walk a delicate balance between diving into obesity research, and framing everything I say in a size positive-way. It’s not easy. We keep hearing about a worldwide obesity epidemic. With it there is a slew of health problems both on a personal and a public health level, as well as […]
whole wheat spaghettini with harissa roasted cauliflower
I was so worried that by the middle of November I'd be a quivering ball of grad student stress. I'm not. On the contrary, I'm seriously enjoying the molecular nutrition course we're working on right now. Typically, the course which looked the most scary to me is the one I've, so far, liked the best. Last […]
roasted kale and sweet potato salad
There are some pretty clear signs that we're barreling towards Christmas time. For starters, there are Christmas decorations everywhere. There are lights being strung, the stores are stocked with gingerbread and glögg, and the city of Stockholm has started construction on the crazy tall tree that stands each year in front of the royal palace. […]
porridge nuggets
Sometimes a recipe will rattle around in my brain for ages. Other times, normally when I've got a paper due, it goes from notion to fully formed thought to tested and photographed in the flashest of flashes. This post is the result of the latter. Have you ever had porridge left in the pot and […]
lentil loaf
I think a popular assumption is that vegetarian = healthy. I've been vegetarian for nearly 20 years now, and as I mentioned in the first post in the Live Well series, I haven't always been so healthy or health conscious. My vegetarianism has definitely gone through several evolutions over the years, both in reasoning and […]
Live Well - the beginning
Before we get started, I want you to know that when I am talk about health I am never talking about size. For some people there exists a relationship between size and health, but many people are healthy independent of size. This is important to keep in mind, as there is a great deal of […]
100% whole wheat bread
I am an eater of wheat and a lover of bread. I've dabbled with eating gluten free a few times, mostly because I get a lot of emails and questions from people who are, for various reasons, eating gluten free, and I want to better understand it. Every time I eat gluten free the same […]
honey roasted carrot and hummus sandwiches
This time next week I'll be sitting in class. Sitting. In. Class. It kind of snuck up on me, and now I'm alternating between being really excited and really terrified. I'm excited about pursuing my dreams, meeting new and presumably like-minded people, learning more about nutrition. I'm terrified I won't know enough, people won't like […]
carrot quinoa salad
This summer I have had the great privilege, twice, of spending time with groups of people who habitually spend their summers together. Although on opposite sides of the globe, there were some commonalities: lazy afternoons on the beach, friends, family, laughter, and shared meals. The first, in a little beach town in the south of Sweden, was a […]
Easy Fresh Peach Salsa
Homemade Peach Salsa is what summer cooking is all about—seasonal produce, minimal effort, and maximum flavor. With juicy fresh peaches and tomatoes, zippy jalapeño and lime, and crisp red onion, this is a recipe that will become a new summertime tradition.
raspberry cornbread
It's hard to get any work done on these lazy summer days. What's occupying your time is driving through a small coastal town on a warm afternoon with one of your favourite people (who, just the night before, surprised you with their presence at your family beach fire), and you pull over because you see […]
white bean tortilla with piri piri
By the time you are reading this I will have gallivanted around the Cinque Terra, and have probably eaten and drank my own body weight in olives, bread, pasta, and wine. Ahhhh. Did you follow along on Facebook? We're spending one night back in Stockholm before we head to BC, to the place where my soul lives, […]
salad rolls with miso glazed tempeh
Despite the abundance of fabulous fresh, in season, local produce which becomes readily available in the summer, I find that it can be a difficult time to eat healthy. It's the beach picnics, the barbeques, the lazy patio afternoons sipping cold beer and nibbling on nacho platters. It's also travel time for a lot of […]
quinoa crusted mini quiches
I've had grain salads on the brain lately, and I've been trying to come up with a jazzy new quinoa salad to share with you all. Greek style quinoa salad? Quinoa salad with grilled veggies? Quinoa fruit salad for breakfast? I dunno, it isn't coming to me. But! While I was trying to brainstorm quinoa […]
cucumber gin mojito
It's Saturday. I was up real late and up real early helping my best Stockhomies move from their rented apartment just two blocks away, to an apartment they bought on the other side of town. It's a good thing, a really really good thing, it really is. It's bittersweet to not be able to pad […]
soba noodle salad with spinach
The last weekend of May was a bright and sunny affair in Stockholm. I biked around wearing a skirt and a sleeveless top. We drank cold beers on sunny patios. Paul and I planted a little garden on our patio. I even got a touch of a sunburn one day. And then, June arrived. What […]
whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
If you are in my Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook feed, then you were bombarded by step by step photos on Saturday as I made cupcakes for Paul's birthday. Annie suggests garnishing the cupcakes with mini chocolate chips (which, since even regular chocolate chips are basically impossible to find in Stockholm, I didn't bother looking for) […]
broccoli kamut slaw
Sometimes I do this thing where I decide I need a break from sandwiches for lunch. I try to pack other things; stir fries, fried rice, I recently even made fried millet and packed it for lunch. Like, woah. And, grain salads. Grain salads pack well, they have good chew power, and are more often […]
mostly whole wheat no knead pizza dough
Folks, I have a tried and true pizza dough recipe. One I've been using for years and years. One I know off by heart. One I know by smell and feel. One I know I can slide off of my peel and onto my stone and turn out a damn fine pizza. This? Isn't it. […]
green pea pesto ravioli
For me, one of the hardest things about moving across the world from Vancouver to Stockholm was leaving behind my very dear friends. Now, one of the best things about being a world away is making new ones, and I've been so blessed with meeting some truly wonderful people here. A bit of a circle […]
egg quesadilla
This is a quickie. A quick post about a quick meal. This egg quesadilla is something that I make very often. I make it for a quick lunch. I make it for an easy dinner alongside a simple salad. I make it for a late morning weekend breakfast when I’m feeling the need for something […]
lemony roasted broccoli and tempeh with quinoa
I grew up in a part of the world that doesn't really get real winters. Don't get me wrong, Vancouver winters are nasty in that can't-get-warm-cause-you're-always-soaking-wet kind of way, and I do not miss the rain even a little bit, but relatively speaking, they're mild. Now I live in a part of the world that […]
spicy kohlrabi salad
One of the things I learned about myself while traveling through Thailand is that I am a lot more squeamish than I thought I was. We planned our trip quite a while in advance so I had a good number of months to contemplate my food attitude on this trip. I knew full well that […]
home made bagels
Let's make some bagels, can we? Yes we can! For starters, today is my birthday, and on my birthday we can do anything we want. We can eat cake for breakfast and bagels for lunch and because it's my birthday the calories don't count. Please remember that I have an actual degree in nutrition, so […]
tom yam soup
Tom Yam soup. I've always seen this soup referred to as Tom Yum, but our instructor and recipe booklet both call it Tom Yam, so that's what I'm going with. If you find yourself in Chiang Mai and are looking for a great cooking class, let me suggest May Kaidee's Thai vegetarian cooking class. The […]
cooked eggnog
Here is the cold hard truth: I have consumed more eggnog in the last week and a half than I have in the entire rest of my life. For real. See, I've always had a bit of a love hate thing for eggnog. Love the flavour, hate the notion that I'm drinking raw eggs. I've […]
perfect hard boiled eggs
This is not a recipe as such, but more a suggestion and a favourite technique of mine. Making really good hard boiled eggs is one of those things that eluded me for years and years. I would try to make them but inevitably they would end up way over done or (in my opinion much […]
baked eggplant parmesan caprese sandwiches
Back in April when Paul popped through Vancouver for a few days en route to a conference we had dinner with his parents one evening. Because it was Easter weekend, there was a ham. And pierogies. Because I am vegetarian and my in-laws always make sure there is enough for me to eat, there was […]
Vij's spicy cauliflower steak
If you've been hanging around here for a while, you've probably heard me rave about how much I love Vij's Indian restaurant in Vancouver. One of my favourite dining experiences of all time was a few years back when my sister, Emily, and her soon-to-be husband, Andy, were visiting Vancouver and decided to take the entire […]
how to cook dried beans
A little while ago I posted this recipe for Next Level Hummus, which calls for 4 cups of cooked chick peas. My lovely and talented friend Christa sent me a tweet with a gentle reminder that although I had called for cooked beans, I hadn't included any instructions for actually cooking the beans. I told […]
savoy slaw
Last weekend I had my first day off since I arrived back in Vancouver. The course I was supposed to be teaching on Saturday's didn't end up running, which, happily, freed me up to head over to the Vancouver Farmer's Market Winter Market. It was the first time I'd seen the market running in their […]