Kitchen Operas

Happy Hallowe’en, my fellow ghosts and goblins! I hope you’re up to some ghoulish fun today to celebrate!

So this weekend, I rocked a 10k race!!!!!!!! I was a part of the run at our local zoo, and I’ve been training for this all year — it was my goal race of the year, and I am so proud to say I did it! The course was supremely hilly (as I found out […]

Sometimes you just need chocolate, but you don’t have any in the house. Well these no-bake cookies are ready in less than 20 minutes, without any baking required. I originally made these way back in the summer of 2012, when I received a copy of Vicki’s Vegan Kitchen by Vicki Chelf from Thomas Allen & […]

Ash made something crazy this week. I’m trying to decide whether to make some tonight or wait until I get to try hers this weekend. Tonight might win.

You know how I said that my Whole Wheat Toblerone Cookies were my favourite cookies ever? Move over Toblerone Cookies, there’s a new Whole Wheat Cookie in town – the Whole Wheat Compost Cookie. I’ve been hearing a lot about Christina Tosi and the amazing treats she’s whipping up at Momofuku Milk Bar in New […]

You know you’ve got a best friend when she demands a birthday post… so in her honour I present Cranberry & Chocolate Banana Cookies of Birthday Celebration!

Can I interest you in the best cookie I’ve ever made, ever? They’re 100% whole wheat, and buttery, and made with chunks of Toblerone instead of chocolate chips.  Ohhhhh yes, they are amazing!  My Dad declared them the best cookies he’s ever had, and everyone was surprised to discover they were whole wheat. They came […]

C is for Cookie — and G is for Gluten-Free Vegan Ginger Cookies, and they are deeeeee-lish. Seriously, I have made these treats in all sorts of permutations: with egg, without egg, with whole wheat flour, with buckwheat flour, with different proportions of flour, adding butter, baking them from frozen logs, and with a variety […]