Butter and Radish

This year I grew some radishes in my garden and wanted to try this recipe out. All you need is some butter, radishes, salt and toast. These radishes are pretty big and work perfectly to make tiny disks. All you need to assemble this recipe is radishes, butter, toast and some salt. Apparently in France,…

Healthy Carrot Cake with Cottage Cheese Icing

Here is a recipe for some healthy carrot cake. Begin by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl, mix 1 cup flour, 3/4 cups almond or oat flour, 1/4 cup flax flour, 1 1/2 cup sugar. 2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir…

Caramelized Bacon Crackers

Warmer weather is heading our way and that means it will soon be picnic season. This recipe is a great snack to bring to picnics or as an appetizer for a party. For this recipe, you need some crackers, bacon and brown sugar. For the crackers I used toppables since it was the same size…

Chocolate Orange Mousse

This has to be one of the easiest recipes that I have tried. And it only takes two ingredients; chocolate and orange juice. I think this recipe works because of the dark chocolate that is used. I have not tried it with other chocolate. Melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or over a double…

Almond Flour Pancakes

We love breakfast at our household. Here is an easy recipe to try when you want to avoid flour or if you know someone who is gluten intolerant. You can whip up this recipe easily and it satisfies your pancake cravings. For this recipe, you need almond flour, eggs, vanilla, maple syrup, baking powder and…

Honey glazed croissants

I have seen this crispy croissant hack for a while now and thought that it was finally time to try it out. The results was pretty good and definitely was worth trying. First start off with some store bought croissants. Flatten the croissants with a rolling pin. Toast the croissant in a frying pan with…

Peach and Rosemary Compote

I received this recipe that I needed to try but because I just renovated my kitchen, I could not find my kitchen scale, so I converted the measurements. It still turned out great and I think the recipe is very forgiving. The rosemary adds a nice savory element to the dish. This would be great…

Viennese Hot Chocolate

I live in Vancouver and always want to go to the hot chocolate festival but I am a little lazy to travel around the city to get them. I would rather make something at home. I recently tried this interesting hot chocolate recipe recently and really enjoyed it : Tea Hot Chocolate. I decided it was…

Crepes

This is a simple recipe but wonderful for quick breakfast. I wanted to try something different for my son instead of his regular breakfasts. I decided to fill these crepes with nutella because who wouldn’t like that. I also made some with cinnamon sugar for myself. The first thing you need to do is prepare the batter….

Broccoli Leaf Stir Fry

Growing winter veggies has been an interesting experience. All through summer my broccoli only produced leaves. Just recently there was some signs of florets but not a lot. I’m hoping that by Spring, we will have more broccoli. In the meantime, I have been experimenting with cooking broccoli leaves which are similar to kale. They…