Healthy, wholesome, recipe inspiration
Do you have a favourite nut? Almond? Cashew? Brazil? Pecan? How about hazelnuts?? I do love my hazelnuts but honestly can’t convince myself to pick a favourite. It’s like picking a favourite child. HOW CAN I NARROW IT DOWN?! I LOVE THEM ALL. Which is why I love making my own nut butters. It is EASY and DELICIOUS with an added bonus of avoiding any unwanted fillers. weeee!!
Are you ready to give it a try?
It’s time to say GOODBYE to bland, gross tasteless salads.
See you later uninspired greens!
Hello tasty, tangy, sweet, packed with herbs dressing. Hello my one true salad love. Hello my sauce that I am now going to pour over EVERYTHING because it’s that good.
With only 7 ingredients, this dressing is jammed full of flavour and goodness. Are you ready to give it a try?
What happens when the best of two world’s collide? Like, say when hummus and guacamole combine their powers of amazingness to make one dip of delicious?! PURE MAGIC PEOPLE. That is what this avocado cilantro hummus is. PURE MAGIC.
Take the best elements of guacamole- hello cilantro and lime juice- and combine them with chickpeas (because why wouldn’t you?) and you get this dip that you can take to any party, event or just eat at home by yourself. I mean, you love yourself don’t you?
Let’s get to this recipe. It’s creamy, flavourful and takes less than 10 minutes to make. I call that a winner. Want to try it? Read on friend.
I am a firm believer that the dressing makes the salad. You can have great ingredients but if the dressing is only meh… then the salad is only meh. This doesn’t mean the dressing has to be fancy, au contraire, my friend. I’m not into fancy at all and in fact, the less time it takes to make a dressing, the better. TBH, my usual go-to is olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper because I’m lazy like that. But really, a dressing like this is totally worth those extra five minutes. Yup, five minutes and you will have a creamy, dreamy sauce to pour on everything.
I do have a slight obsession with this dressing right now. I am busy putting it on all the things. Snacky? Dressing and veggies. Dinner? Dressing and tacos. Lunch? Dressing and salad. You get the idea.
With so many of my favourite ingredients in it how can I not be obsessed. Things like creamy almond butter, light and flavourful miso paste, cilantro (team cilantro for always and ever here), lime juice and a few others to bring it all together. I was originally going to post this with a bowl recipe coming up but thought it needed a post all it’s own. Are you ready for it?
Do you love hummus? I actually haven’t eaten hummus in quite some time(chickpeas aren’t always my friend)- however, I was at an event recently and they served turmeric hummus and it was basically the best thing EVER! Obviously it got my brain spinning about what other flavour combinations I could come up with at home. I really like the introduction of turmeric to hummus. It seems to fit so perfectly with the tahini and chickpeas without being overpowering as turmeric sometimes tends to be. Around here it is the beginning of seasonal allergy time so I decided to sneak some bee pollen in the mix as well. To round things out I blended it all with some roasted carrots.
[Read more…] about Roasted Carrot Hummus with Turmeric and Bee Pollen
Do you garden? I love the feeling of walking out onto the back porch in my bare feet in the warm sun to do some digging in the dirt. When your food is a total of 7 feet from garden to table it is as fresh and local as you can get. I actually don’t even have a backyard to plant in but I do have a balcony and I make use of every inch of space out there! Living in the city, it isn’t always easy to garden, but it is totally doable! I find that herbs and lettuces are the easiest to grow in pots on my balcony but my absolute favourite thing to grow are edible flowers. From lavender to chamomile, pansies and especially nasturtiums.