Food

Gluten-free Mini Egg donuts

April 10, 2020

With being stuck at home, we’ve been baking up a storm in our house over the past couple of weeks and also experimenting with different recipes. (I’m totally a stress-baker and a stress-eater.) So far, we’ve made banana bread, muffins, brownies and most importantly, donuts. It hasn’t been the best for my waistline, but my stomach sure is enjoying it!

I love donuts. As in, I really, really love them. The only problem with being gluten-free, is that there aren’t really a ton of options when it comes to donuts so I ‘most always have to making them myself from scratch when I’m craving one, (hashtag gluten-free problems) and as you all know I can be pretty lazy sometimes.

A few weeks ago, I was craving donuts really badly. We didn’t have any of my usual go-to items in the house for donut making, including my regular flour, so I had to get a little big creative and come up with some substitutes and a new dough-recipe. Turns out it was a blessing in disguise as this dough recipe is my favourite one yet! Overall, it was pretty easy to make and the donuts were so soft and fluffy. As an added bonus, they also freeze really well!

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Wok Fresh: Gluten-free instant meals for when you’re on the go + a giveaway

November 13, 2019

Being gluten-free, it’s super hard to find healthy, quick and easy instant meals for when you’re on the go or for those days where you just don’t have enough time to make lunch. (Not only that, but for me there’s really only one place near my office where I can actually eat on those days when I don’t bring a lunch.)

Last year, I discovered Wok Fresh and Backcountry Wok at the Toronto One of a Kind show and instantly (pun not intended) became hooked. They make vegan, dehydrated meals – you just add water and go!

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Canning for the first time with Bernardin – my grandmother’s red pepper jelly recipe!

August 13, 2019

This summer marks the 4th year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing. I wrote a little bit about her and our relationship back when it happened as a form of self-therapy, but one thing I left out was her love for canning.

Growing up, my grandparents owned a farm out in Creemore, Ontario which was treated sort of like the family cottage. We would spend all of our summers and each holiday up there with the entire family – all 16 of us!

One of my most vivid memories of my grandmother is her spending hours and hours in the kitchen, slaving away at making everyone jars and jars of their favourite jams and jellies.

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Recipe: The Perfect Gluten Free Cut-Out Cookies

November 28, 2017

One of my favourite things to do around the holiday season is to make cookies! While my parents are partial to my peppermint chocolate chip cookies, my absolute favourite Christmas cookies has always been cut-out cookies.