Posts in Healthy eating
Herbed Cheese Sauce and Nut Crusted Hoisin Salmon

Salmon is one of the most popular and versatile fish varieties for chefs and gourmets alike. It’s delicate flavour, pretty colour and presentation styles make it a perfect main dish to serve for any festive occasion or celebration, year round. Consider making this delicious and nutritious, easy and quick to make, recipe to nourish and impress your loved ones over the holidays

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Weeknight Coconut Hoisin Chicken Stir-fry

December is a busy month with the holidays, shopping, wrapping, festivities & events & entertaining (all with Covid still dictating restrictions), cooking, baking, sweets and indulgences, so it’s nice to have a quick and easy healthy meal during this hectic busy time!

Stir-frys are quick to cook to serve your family and friends and they are filled with nutrition – veggies, a healthy fat to cook with, a healthy carb, like rice, to serve with and a protein, in this case chicken breast, but you could use another meat, tempeh, marinated tofu or white beans or chickpeas, all round out this complete and balanced delicious meal

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Homemade Vanilla Extract

Vanilla adds that special quality to baked goods. With the crazy price that store bought vanilla is these days, due to its labour-intensive hand pollinating the vanilla flower production process, and with the quality questionable for a lot of brands that I have tried, I started to make my own vanilla extract. It is so simple to make.

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