Easy oven baked Nacho Hash brown Casserole recipe. Made with frozen hash browns and a lot of cheese, this is the ultimate comfort meal. If you scroll through my most recent savoury posts, do you see a pattern? After my Easy Nachos, Nacho Quesadilla and my Nacho Omelette, you would think I would have ran...
Simple Soft Gingerbread Cookies are not only for Christmas. This easy recipe is made with molasses and makes a perfect dessert or snack idea. Why is it that I am always craving food in the wrong season? During the winter, all I want are berries. During the summer all I want is soup. And now...
Easy Salsa Bread recipe. This simple quick bread is made with less than 10 ingredients, and pairs perfectly with soups or chili. If there is one thing that I can't stop buying, it's salsa. Okay, maybe that's a lie. I would probably say that it is sugar, then chocolate then oats. But the next best...
Easy and gooey Nutella Swirl Banana Bread recipe. The chocolate and banana combo is to die for. It makes a great breakfast idea. I am finally back at it! After two weeks off for March break, I am back at work. Back to waking up early, coming home late, having no time for lunch. Yeah....
Easy recipe for Snickerdoodle Pancakes with Cinnamon Glaze. Light and fluffy, this is the perfect weekend breakfast idea. It's Thursday! The weekend is near! I can taste it! Or maybe it is these Snickerdoodle Pancakes with Cinnamon Glaze that I am tasting. They do make it feel like the weekend, even though I am eating...
Easy St Patrick's Day Nutella Cups recipe. Made with only 4 ingredients, this makes the perfect last minute dessert idea for St Patty's Day. Saint Patrick's Day is this week! I have an excuse to make one more St Patrick's Day dessert recipe. And of course it is Nutella cups. Flip flopping between Nutella cups...
These Chia Seed Mocha Brownies are so east to make, and a lot healthier than your average brownie. Flourless and ready in under 30 minutes. If you know me at all, you know that I go through very concentrated periods of particular food obsessions before I move on to something else. For the past year,...
Fruit and Vegetable Smoothie Bowl recipe for a healthy breakfast. This green smoothie is made with frozen avocado, spinach, apple, pineapple and banana. Today was the first day of Autumn. Weather wise of course, but it came way to early for my liking. I walked to the gym this morning in shorts and a tank...
Easy Berry Peanut Butter Coffee Oats recipe. Topped with hemp hearts, this is one of my favourite oatmeals to make for breakfast or brunch. I'm not sure when it was in my life that I became super obsessed with oatmeal, but I would like to say that it was around the time I moved out...
Fluffy and healthy Banana Pancakes recipe that are super easy to make. This quick breakfast idea uses 2 ripe bananas and ingredients you already have in the pantry. On days like today, all I want to do is curl up in bed and have banana pancakes served to me with a side of coffee. And...
Easy Coffee Milkshake recipe made with only two ingredients. This coffee drink makes a decadent treat, making it perfect for a hot summer day. I am looking at this coffee milkshake right now, and am really wanting to recreate it again! It is so hot in Vancouver, and I have spent the entire day walking...
Easy White Chocolate Matcha Bread recipe. Perfect for a quick snack or grab and go breakfast idea. Healthier than your typical sweet loaf. Hello quick grab and go breakfast for the week! How are you doing? Is it cheating when I say that I have been eating my greens all week for breakfast? All in...
Easy Weetabix Chocolate Nests recipe is the perfect no bake snack to make for Easter. This dessert is made with only 4 ingredients. Is there such thing as a mini egg addict? Because I think I am one. Every year around Easter I stock up on mini eggs. And yet, they barely last for more...
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes recipe with pumpkin cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Super easy to make, this is a great fall dessert idea. Where did the week go? Hi hi! How was your week? Mine was so busy, I was honestly shocked that it is Friday today. I could have sworn that the week just started. I...
These maple muffins are made with pure maple syrup. One of my favourite nut free recipes, they make a great breakfast idea. It's back to school for me! I can't believe the week is over already. One week vacation goes by too quickly, don't you think? Especially when you are exploring a new city. Now...
This Hemp Heart Fudge Bites recipe is so quick and easy to whip up. Made with only 4 ingredients, this is vegan and gluten free. Hey all you fellow Canadians out there. Happy Thanksgiving! I love long weekends, mainly because being a full time teacher doesn't leave much room to cook or bake. That is,...
This Applesauce Cake is made with pecans and cranberries. The perfect dessert or breakfast recipe for the fall. Okay, here we go. Let the fall baking begin. Maybe if I start baking like fall, the weather here in Toronto will start ACTING like fall. Seriously! There was a heat warning yesterday, and another one today....
Easy 4 ingredient Pina Colada Nice Cream that is ready in under 5 minutes. It's a banana ice cream, so it is vegan, gluten free and paleo. We are halfway through September and it is still hot in Toronto! What is this? Global warming? As long as it means that we won't have snow this...
These Carrot, Apple and Pecan Muffins are sweetened with shredded coconut, dried cranberries and brown sugar. A healthy grab and go breakfast recipe. Fall in a grab and go muffin form!!! Too soon? I have yet to see pumpkin spiced lattes come out of Starbucks, so it looks like the rest of the world is...
Banana Split Cream of Wheat is like having dessert for breakfast. This recipe is ready in no time, and can satisfy your morning sweet tooth. Cream of wheat!! Love it or hate it? The first time I tried cream of wheat, I hated it. The texture is unlike anything I have ever tried before, and...
Easy Layered Apple Coffee Cake using fresh apples and applesauce. An easy breakfast recipe that is perfectly spiced. Note to self, do not buy apples during the summer. I am a big apple eater, and I always go crazy around apple season in the fall to buy bags and bags of them. But even during the...
Brown sugar meatloaf recipe made with ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. Makes an easy weekday dinner idea. I think that this brown sugar meatloaf proves that I do in fact make real food now and again. By real food, I mean not desserts or oatmeal. And I mean especially oatmeal. If it were up to me,...
No Bake Peanut Butter and Chocolate Oat Fudge Bars. Ready in 15 minutes, these make a great quick and easy snack or dessert idea. THESE NO BAKE PEANUT BUTTER AND CHOCOLATE OAT FUDGE BARS!!! I'm kind of obsessing over here. Especially since I can never have enough chocolate and peanut butter recipes up on...
Healthy homemade Grape Fruit Juice Gummy Bears recipe made with grape fruit juice. A quick and easy healthy snack kids will love. So this week has been crazy. Something a teacher wouldn't really say now that it's summer. It should be time for relaxing and soaking in the sun. But when you are also a...
No bake peanut butter protein balls. Made with vanilla whey protein powder, they are vegan, gluten free and made with no refined sugar. It's another protein powder recipe y'all! It's another protein powder recipe y'all! I have been on a mission to use up my protein powder. Not because I don't like it, it...
Moist dark chocolate coconut cream cake. Made in one bowl, which means less dishes. Again finding use for my coconut cream. Last time in my strawberries and cream oatmeal - which, honestly, if you missed it, it is my new favourite way to eat oatmeal hands down. But now I am adding an entire can...
A classic shepherd's pie recipe made with ground beef. Tastes just like my father made, and his grandmother before him. Is it weird that I start craving shepherd's pie as comfort food exactly when the temperature gets warmer? You'd think I would be making these comforting, stick to your bones kind of foods (like oatmeal and shepherd's...
Easy Peanut Butter Protein Cookies, made with whey protein. A super simple recipe made with 4 ingredients that really packs in the protein. Hey guys! I made a recipe with protein powder again! Honestly, I am finding every excuse to bake or make something different with this protein powder I bought. It tastes amazing,...
Vegan peanut butter chocolate and oats fudge. Gluten free, and made with cranberries and super easy to make. Long weekend!! Whenever there is any type of holiday, you just know that I head straight to my kitchen and bake. Not that I'm not always baking anyways. I just stock up on the goodies when I can...
My favorite Lemon and Garlic Salmon recipe. Baked in the oven for 15 minutes, this healthy baked salmon is the perfect weeknight meal. Ever since I made my maple salmon recipe, I have been obsessed with buying and cooking salmon. But since the maple salmon was the only salmon recipe I have ever made, that was what I was...
Dates Brownies that are gluten free, butterless, and ready in under 30 minutes. I have a surprisingly easy brownie recipe for you. Now I know what you are thinking: a brownie recipe? The internet has enough of those. What is so special about that? Will the fact that they are gluten free, butterless and and...
This is fall in a muffin: pumpkin and snickerdoodle mixed into one. These Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Muffins are so easy to make! I know what you're thinking. Pumpkin?? What is happening?!? It is nowhere near fall, and yet I am pulling out a can of the good stuff to make some pumpkin treats. To be...
Your favourite chocolate chip cookie in bar form! Soft and chewy and packed with chocolate chips. Craving chocolate chip cookies is just a constant in my life. Most of the time you can find me in the kitchen baking my peanut butter chocolate chip cookies or, my favourite cookie of all time, my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Obviously,...
This apple coffee cake makes for a perfect breakfast or afternoon snack. Soft cake filled with apples, topped with crunchy cinnamon streusel. Today was my first snow day ever! And by snow day, I don't mean the first time I have seen snow on the ground. I live in Canada after all....
These healthy apple peanut butter bars are loaded with all the good stuff: oats, peanut butter, apples and raisins. Soft and chewy granola bars. Healthy snacking is definitely not my forte. Chocolate makes its appearance at least once in between breakfast and lunch, and from lunch to dinner... well.. I may or may not end...
When you have one brown banana in the house, here is a lost of 10 Things To Make With Only One Ripe Banana! Including pancakes, cookies and smoothies. Don't you hate it when you look over and see that you only have one ripe banana? What can you do with that?? The...
5 Minute Apple Crisp for One makes a quick and easy dessert recipe. Made in the microwave for days you don't want to turn on the oven. I think you know that I have a problem when 3 out of my past 5 blog posts have been a mug cake of some sort. Is there...
Caramel bars made with evaporated milk, caramels and pecans. An easy and delicious dessert or snack recipe. The dreaded Monday. Back to the grind of..whatever it is you have to do. Even though I love teaching with all my heart, I can see summer approaching, and I am excited for family time and the...
This Broccoli Pasta Bake is so easy to make and I am almost sure you have all the ingredients in the house! You can swap out the pasta for pasta of your choice. Yesterday was my first day at my new teaching job, and I love it! Maybe this is just the thrill of...
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles taste like fall in a cookie! So light and fluffy, and topped with cinnamon sugar, these make great snacks. I want to snickerdoodle THE WORLD! Is snickerdoodle a verb? Because I just snickerdoodled a pumpkin cookie. What should I snickerdoodle next? There are so many options out there. The world is my...
Banana Bread Granola that uses one ripe banana, coconut oil and pecans. Perfect for breakfast or snacking on during the day. I would like to start this post with a question to all of my listeners: what do you do when you only have one ripe banana? This happens to me every time I...
This Biscoff Mug Cake is a quick and easy dessert recipe ready in under 5 minutes. Made in the microwave to satisfy our cake craving immediately. Even though as I am writing this post this cake is long gone, I am thinking of making another this moment. And even though I need to leave...