Pretty Plates

August 20th is National Lemonade Day. While I love lemonade, I don’t always love the sugar high and crash that follows. I also prefer to save my calories for food rather than drinking them, hello hungry girl! Enter Lemon Perfect! Lemon Perfect is a hydrating cold-pressed lemon water with essential antioxidants and electrolytes. Sweetened with stevia, it has a lemonade like flavor without the sugar and weighs in at just 5 calories. It comes in four delish flavors so staying […]

Someone recently asked me where I come up with the ideas for the recipes I develop.  It’s a great question, but my answer “It depends” didn’t really tell the whole story. While inspiration can come from anywhere, my natural curiosity is generally what drives a recipe. It makes me tweak techniques, combine new flavours and achieve a better result…most of the time. Recently I had the opportunity to work on a Valentine’s recipe for theskiny.com, a fantastic website dedicated to […]

Its been so hot this summer. Here in Toronto we are on our fourth heat advisory of the season. So out of character for the Great White North. Heat and humidity, a fantastic combo for frizzy hair and zapping energy . In addition to drinking lots of water to beat the heat, there has been lots of frozen treats…way too much ice cream. Not great for the waistline, but oh so tasty. This morning I am beating the heat with […]

Cravings for comforting foods in my house are on the rise while we shelter in place.  However, one cannot live on mac and cheese alone. This soup checks all the comfort food boxes, creamy texture, warming spices and a high yum factor.  You can use what you have available, I subbed in coconut cream for the coconut milk and thinned it with water.  Use butternut squash or sweet potato if you don’t have carrots. Stay safe everyone.  Carrot Coconut Soup […]