This easy vegan bolognese sauce is made with crumbled tempeh, nutritional yeast, and flavourful spices. Done in under 30 minutes but with all-day flavour and packed with plant-based protein, this vegetarian pasta sauce is the perfect quick and healthy weeknight dinner.
Pumpkin Mac and Cheese
This Pumpkin Mac and Cheese is an easy, healthy baked pasta dish that’s perfect for a weeknight dinner! Lighter than your average mac and cheese thanks to the addition of pumpkin, it’s a vegetarian meal the whole family will love.
Tortellini Pasta Salad with Burst Tomatoes and Green Beans
This easy Vegetarian Tortellini Pasta salad can be served warm or at room temperature. It’s quick to make, packed with protein, and super healthy. Perfect for family gatherings and picnics alike.
Simple Summer Pasta
Simple Summer Pasta for hot summer days! This vegan pasta dish is tossed with crushed tomatoes, herbs, and olives, with a drizzle of olive oil and some vinegar to brighten things up. It couldn’t be easier to make or more delicious to eat.
Very Green Vegetable Edamame Pasta
Very Green Vegetable Edamame Pasta! Made with green soybean fettuccini this 15-minute pasta is vegan, gluten-free, and packed with plant-based protein!
Orecchiette with Broccoli and Lemon
This quick and easy Orecchiette with Broccoli and Lemon is a perfect weeknight dinner. It’s loaded with veggies, comes together in a flash, and is simple yet still sophisticated.
caesar roasted broccoli with orzo
Caesar roasted broccoli with whole-wheat orzo and almonds is one of the easiest dinners you’ll ever make! Easter is one of my favourite times of year. It’s not just that the children dress as witches and go trick or treating, a tradition I adore (they’re such cute little witches!), or that people hand you gigantic…
creamy one-pot pasta with yoghurt and peas
Tangy yoghurt and frozen peas come together in this lightened up quick and easy one-pot creamy pasta dish. Every once in a while, maybe once a year or so, I subject myself to a flurry of activity intended to move this blog forwards. I did this recently. I joined a couple of new groups on…
one-pot lemony kale spaghetti
Easy one-pot lemony kale spaghetti comes together in a flash and is the perfect respite from heavy holiday meals. Top with a poached egg to add some protein! I haven’t hit the snooze button for a whole week. That might not seem like a lot, but I am trying to kick a decades long snooze…
creamy cauliflower pasta bake
This creamy cauliflower pasta bake is a lightened up version of a classic mac and cheese. The other day my favourite swimming goggles snapped just as I was getting ready to dive into the pool. I borrowed a pair from the lost and found, and then put my other pair of goggles into my swim…
tomato sauce with butter and onion
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting at my desk feeling grumpy on a Friday afternoon. One of those days where the weight of the world was catching up with me, I was feeling the pressure of a full time job plus full time thesis work, and feeling rather far away from my family…
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…
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…
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…
roasted pumpkin lasagna
Autumn is definitely descending, and here in Stockholm it’s happening more rapidly than I’m accustomed to. There is definitely none of the lingering Indian Summer that can happen on the West Coast of BC. We’re losing daylight quickly, and I know the payback for all of those long summer days is just around the corner….
