I’m going back to my roots today with a traditional Acadian recipe – Instant Pot Lentil fricot. As I said, fricot is a traditional Acadian recipe, which I grew up eating when living in the Maritimes. Traditional fricot is a dish made of chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions and dumplings, but since eating a mostly vegetarian diet, I decided it was time to make a plant-based version of one of my childhood favorites. If you’re not from the Maritimes, then think of fricot as a sort of chicken and dumplings soup. And believe me, it’s an easy and comforting recipe. My version is made chicken-free thanks to lentils. I used red lentils for protein, which also thickens the dish to make it stew-like and comforting. It’s then flavored with vegetable broth (instead of chicken…
Slow cooker vegetarian pumpkin chili. Slow cooked for maximum flavor and made vegetarian and high-protein thanks to a combination of red lentils and black beans. This pumpkin chili has been a fall favorite around here for the past two years and I hope you’ll love it too. This is actually my first time sharing a slow cooker recipe on the blog and I have no excuse for it. Since I moved in with Shaun 4 years ago and he brought with him an old slow cooker, I’ve used it exactly 3 times. Two of those times being this week. The other time was 2 years ago when I made Half Baked Harvest’s Moroccan soup. I’m not sure how it’s been 2 years already, but it has. Two years ago, I was starting my dietetic…
Fruit-Sweetened Apple Muffins. Canadian Thanksgiving is just around the corner and for those of you who are looking for recipes to make this weekend, I’ve got a great healthy dessert for you. Or snack. Or breakfast. These apple muffins can pass for all three. It may be Thanksgiving in Canada this weekend, but this is an everyday recipe that I hope you’ll love. Healthy whole wheat muffins sweetened with bananas and apples. While I did call them apple muffins, they do have a banana bread flavor to them. Either way, they’re delicious! One bowl and 30 minutes is all you need to get muffins all week. Similarly to my banana bread, I recommend serving these with nut or seed butter. Maybe some apple butter too… I need to try this as soon as possible…
My latest obsession: roasted sweet potatoes with 2-minute vegan aioli. I’ve been eating this about 3 times a week lately and there’s no stopping me. These sweet potatoes with tempeh and a kale salad have been a staple in our house since I finally found tempeh and vegan mayonnaise in Vernon a month ago… It was an exciting day. As disturbing as it may be, we went through almost an entire jar of vegan mayonnaise in one month, all because of this recipe. Me, who’s never bought mayonnaise in my life. It’s just not something we use, but now, that may change. Mayonnaise may become a regular condiment in our fridge, all to satisfy my aioli cravings. I mean, I could make my own mayonnaise, but sometimes you just want…
Date-sweetened chai granola. Utterly addictive, perfectly sweetened with dates and nut-free. This. Is. The. Best. Granola. I’m here to share this granola with you today after an unintentional two weeks away from the blog. Unintentional as in I didn’t expect (nor did I want) to be sick with a wicked cold over the past few weeks. I spent the past 2 weeks on the couch, watching Netflix. Going to work just to come home and crash on the bed for the night. Needless to say, recipe development and photography weren’t the first things on my mind. Now I’m playing catch up with blog content. I worked in the kitchen all weekend and I’m now ready to start sharing some fall recipes, starting with this chai granola! This granola…
