Fall

By Ingredient

Maple Leaf Cookies

And more cookies! We’re going to need some rehabilitating, healthy themes come January. Look out: Salad Week! Lentils Week! I Ate Too Many Cookies Week! But that’s January, for now

Sides

Creamy Baked Leeks

During American Thanksgiving, my mother didn’t make the entire meal. It was the first time this ever happened. We made the woman swear up and down that she would make

By Meal Type

Grilled Ham, Apple and Cheese

Do your week­ends end up being as over-subscribed as your work days at this time of year? For instance, this week­end we: did the gro­cery run, attended a birth­day party, dropped

Fall

Maple Apple Cranberry Crumble

Yes, this is a crumble. It’s one of my favourite desserts and one of the simplest to make. I made this one for the first time just a few weeks

Fall

Fried Noodles

You may have spent yesterday lusting over Melvie’s spring rolls. (Maybe that was just me?!) But we’re back today to give you one more homemade dish from my friend Alexa’s

Legumes

Black Bean Burgers

Veg­e­tar­ian cook­ing can get a bad rap. For those who aren’t reg­u­larly prepar­ing meals with­out meat I think the 1970s, macrame plant holder beside the Moose­wood cook­book halo still lingers. In real­ity,

By Meal Type

Curried Pumpkin Soup

We must like pumpkin around here…  Although it was obviously neither right nor true, Ben and I let Esme convince us that she needed to bring in a carved Jack-0-latern

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Sweet Potato French Fries

Here’s another one for the “How have we never done X before?” file. X being sweet potato fries this time around. Sweet potato fries? Shouldn’t that have been like the

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Wholegrain Blueberry Muffins

Even after a year and a half of post­ing on SPC we’re still some­times shocked by the holes in our recipe ros­ter. Gap­ing maws when you really take a look at it. No

Grains & Rice

Quinoa Porridge

Esme would eat oatmeal porridge every day of her life if we were willing to make it. Hottest day in July? No matter, she wants porridge. I was interviewing nutrition