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Dairy Free Cranberry Rosemary Cheese Roll and a Holiday Charcuterie Board

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Working on a blog is hard.   

Don’t get me wrong, I love blogging. It comes with sweatpants, eating copious amounts of delicious food and cuddling with my pooch throughout the day.

However, it does mean spending a lot of time alone. A lot. It also means a lot of time doing dishes and a lot of time on social media.  Social media can be tricky as I often find that the more I scroll the more I compare myself to other bloggers. So instead, I have found it very useful to reach out, make friends, and collaborate.  Making food and creating with friends is so refreshing and enjoyable and fun to see things through a different lens.   

One of my good friends, Tisha from The Nourished Mind, has been someone I can reach out to to ask blogging advice, talk about the latest health trends (we are both nutritionists) and now, collaborate together!  We made a gluten and dairy free holiday charcuterie with vegan cheese (my recipe is for a Cranberry and Rosemary Cheese Roll) and a Tisha made a beautiful Cranberry Apple and Rosemary Jam.

Want to give your own holiday charcuterie board a go? Read on friend.

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Chai Banana Snack Cake (paleo)

Chai Banana Snack Cake (paleo, dairy free)
Chai Banana Snack Cake (paleo, dairy free)Sometimes on Mondays all you really need is a little cake.  Like this Chai Banana Snack Cake. Paleo, grain free, dairy free and absolutely delicious.

Don’t you love how it’s called a “snack” cake. It makes eating cake as a snack any time of the day legitimate.  Now I’m just waiting for the lunch cake and dinner cake trend to take off and I’m all set.

Semantics aside, this cake is moist, tender, flavourful and only has 2 tbsp of maple syrup in the whole thing! (what?!). It’s also full of chai spices like cardamom and cinnamon which smell amazing while it’s baking.  I feel like I could even call this recipe a “breakfast cake” because it definitely seems like a nice breakfast treat.

Are you ready to give it a go?

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Caramel Apple Slices with Superfoods (vegan and paleo)

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caramel apple slices with superfoods

Halloween is coming up fast.  Can we all sit here for a moment and just think about HOW IT’S ALREADY THE END OF OCTOBER?! Let’s just slow everything down today and appreciate that it’s not snowing outside (at least where I am) and there are beautiful fall colours around us and we can eat all of the caramel apples our hearts desire.  Like these superfood spiked caramel apple slices. Let me just say that again. SUPER. FOOD. SPIKED. CARAMEL. APPLE. SLICES.  You dig?

Let’s give them a go!

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Roasted Peaches with Cashew Cardamom Cream

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Peach season is coming to a close.  It’s sad but true.  We had a good run this summer and I even managed to get some late summer popsicles in.  I feel as though I need to embrace the start of fall and school and sweaters and boots and pumpkin spice lattes. However, it is still hot as a sauna outside so instead, I have decided to meet fall halfway with a little bit of summer.  These Roasted Peaches with a Cashew Cardamom Cream do just that!  Juicy, drippy, perfectly ripe peaches with a flavourful fall-like cardamom cream. Easy, simple and delicious.

Are you ready to give it a try?

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Paleo Tomato Tart

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Hi, my name is Lizzy and I am 100% obsessed with tomatoes right now.  My usual mode of consuming these beauties is sliced with a hefty glug of olive oil and more than a fair sprinkle of sea salt and black pepper.  Simple, and so satisfying.  However, do to the fact that I somehow can’t help but buy pounds and pounds of these at the farmer’s market, I need to find other ways to use them up.  In comes this tart. A cheesy (dairy free of course), pesto-y and tomato tart combination that is the perfect culmination of all that summer has to offer.

Are you ready to give it a go?

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Paleo Chocolate Hazelnut Cake with Salted Almond Butter Whip

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Oh hey there Monday. Faaaancy seeing you….again. You just keep showing up without an invitation don’t you? Every. Darn. Week.   So I’m going to embrace you, Monday. And by that, I mean, eat cake on Mondays (and by that I really mean eat cake on Mondays for breakfast).  I don’t think there would be a better way to start a week. Am I right? You can start your week this way as well if you make this cake- And trust me, you want to make this cake.

Are you ready? Let’s do this!

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