Category Archives: Healthy Recipes & Kitchen How-To’s

How to Make Your Own Homemade Yogurt

homemade yogurt

Here are the very reasonable reasons you might want to make your own yogurt: Live yogurt is a probiotic – which means it is full of good bacteria that can help you digest your food better. Good digestion leads to vibrant health and beautiful, healthy skin! It’s delicious. I love a good bowl of yogurt,…

How to Make the Best Healthy Homemade Salad Dressing EVER. In The World. Ever.

Hollyhock Dressing

Okay guys – get this. I have found the holy grail of salad dressings. This yeast dressing is the best thing… ever. No really – my taste buds have never been so happy. And I’m fairly certain your life will finally be complete once you taste it. But what’s even better is that dressing up…

Tasty Bean Salad Lunch Recipe

There’s a really yummy vegetarian bean salad that I’ve been eating for lunch every day for the last week… it’s time to share it with you! Check out the video below to learn how to make it: Recipe: This salad is completely open to interpretation. The basic ingredients are: 1 cup of beans (eg. black…

How to Make Ghee from Butter

ghee

In my video today I’m going to show you the process for making ghee out of butter. It’s really, really easy. What’s ghee? Well, butter is made mostly of dairy fat with a little bit of dairy solids – meaning the milk sugars and proteins. When people have problems tolerating dairy products (ala lactose intolerance…

Hungarian Goulash Recipe: Deliciousness in a Bowl

Hungarian goulash

The other day I made a giant batch of my favourite stew: Hungarian Goulash. Many of you probably don’t know what goulash is, or equate it with something not-so-classy. In America, goulash is apparently some kind of “chuck your leftovers and some ground beef in a pot” type of concoction with some macaroni thrown in…

Recipe: How to Make Quinoa Tabbouleh

quinoa tabbouleh

What’s tabbouleh, you ask? It’s a middle eastern salad, traditionally consisting of some combination of bulgar wheat, parsley and mint, usually onions and garlic, and seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt. Taboulleh is awesome and simple to make. But since bulgar wheat does contain gluten, and I tend to veer away from gluten…

How to Make Nourishing Bone Broth to Heal Gut and Skin

Bone broth acne

I know I’ve been talking about bone broth for a long time now, so finally – here are the instructions (and a video)! What is Bone Broth, and Why Do I Want to Make It? You know what broth is, right? The flavourful liquid in soups that, unfortunately, is usually made with water and fake…

Two Special Blender Tricks I Have Found Useful

Blender tricks

I thought I had blenders all figured out. In fact, I thought I was some kind of a blending pro – a  hot shot, blending with my eyes closed and behind my back. At the height of my glory, I was blending five times a day, training to go to the world Blending Championships to…

How to Make Your Own Homemade Lacto-Fermented Condiments

Homemade ketchup

Commercial condiments are bad for you, and fermented things are good for you. So why not improve your health by killing two birds with one stone? Regular ol’ condiments are often some of the worst foods that people eat because they tend to be chalk full of damaged vegetable oils: canola oil, soybean oil, cottonseed…

How to Make Sweet Green Scrambled Eggs

Green Scrambled Eggs

Today I’m going to show you how to make green scrambled eggs – in other words – eggs with a bunch of greens blended into them. If you don’t mind eating some bright green eggs (they honestly look like you’ve dumped a bottle of green food colouring on them), it’s an excellent way to get…