Slow Cooker Chicken Curry

I’m a huge fan of curry dishes and quick and easy meals! This recipe checks off both of these boxes. A curry slow cooker recipe to have cooking while you are out and about running errands or at work. Your house will smell amazing once you get home. I promise!

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Garlic Chapati Bread

I love the taste of curry dishes and love to pair it with some delicious flat breads. This chapati bread is delicious smoothered in ghee and sprinkled with some garlic and sea salt. Pull it apart and enjoy it with your favourite curry dish! I really enjoy this bread with Slow Cooker Chicken Curry.

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Simple Sautéed Asparagus

Asparagus is such an interesting vegetable, right from the day it’s planted. Did you know it takes 3 years to grow asparagus from seed?! But fear not, after that time, you will have a yearly yield of this green gem to savour well into the future. It’s amazing when you think about it! All that time to become the delicious, crunchy, melty, kind of indescribable vegetable sat simmering on your plate! (Can you tell I’m a fan?!)

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Warming Homemade Chili

Those colder days calls for batch cooking warming, nourishing meals! Batch cooking is so easy, as it affords the opportunity to fill up on soups, stews and chilis. I will often double or triple recipes and make extras to freeze so I have grab-and-go meals throughout the week. This Warming Homemade Chili is always a welcome, wholesome treat, full of tomato-based warming goodness!

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Turkey Thyme Patties

It’s a challenge lots of us face: how to ensure we get healthy, nutritious food in a quick and easy format. Preparation is key! When life gets busy, it’s handy to have some delicious and nutritious foods at hand that we can quickly take out of the freezer and eat on they fly. These Turkey Thyme Patties check all those boxes! Not only are they an excellent source of satisfying protein, but they also offer oodles of flavour, along with many beneficial nutrients.

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Dairy-free Spinach Pesto

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Looking for a green festive food? Look no further! Stay away from the artificial dyes and use real whole food to colour your dish green. This pesto is full of goodness including calcium, fibre, good healthy fats and it has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties to help reduce inflammation and oxidative stress in your body!

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Quinoa-Black Bean Burgers

Summer is here and so is burger season! It’s time to start making those summer salads and quick and easy go-to meals. These veggie burgers are a cinch to put together on those hot summer days. Are you worried you won’t be getting enough protein if you don’t eat a burger made from meat? Set those worries to one side! These veggie patties are packed full of protein and fibre to give you that burger-sized feeling of satisfaction.

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Garlic Thyme Roast Chicken

While I eat mostly vegetarian these days, I do enjoy a chicken or turkey dish from time to time. However, the traditional roasted chicken or turkey is filled with gluten-filled breaded stuffing. Since I eat gluten-free, I decided to fill my chicken with some delicious herbs instead, making it a little kinder to my body, but still exploding with flavour!

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Cauliflower Broccoli Cakes

This recipe is full of delicious ingredients that are also very beneficial for our bodies! I created it especially for anyone experiencing any symptoms associated with estrogen dominance – an imbalance of two hormones, estrogen and progesterone. 

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Quick and Easy 'Cheesy' Sauce

I love creamy dips and sauces, but since going dairy-free it has been hard to get that creaminess and cheesy flavour I so enjoy. But guess what? I’ve created a Quick and Easy ‘Cheesy’ Sauce, great for dipping, or to use as a sauce or dressing. The nutritional yeast in this recipe is what gives it a cheese-like flavour, while the cashews give it a creamy texture.

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Sautéed Green Beans and Tomatoes

I’m so excited to be receiving a weekly vegetable basket from The Greenhouse! It’s like Christmas every week for me – a bag full of fresh and local veggies (what more could a holistic nutritionist ask for?!) The baskets offer a wide variety of vegetables, some of which are completely new to me. This is the most exciting part of all, as it gives me the opportunity to get creative in the kitchen and try new dishes (or old ones, vamped up with new ingredients!) 

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Avocado Lemon Curry Dip

This dip is super creamy and delicious! It’s great to have with homemade sweet potato fries or it can also be used as a spread.

Avocados are so good for you and are loaded with great nutritional benefits. They are great for the nerves, containing many of the vitamins needed to support a healthy nervous system, including some of the B vitamins, calcium and magnesium. They are also a source of good fat.

 

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