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The Weetabix Recipe Roundup! #MyBixMix

May 1, 2015 By Food Retro

Last week, I was challenged to find delicious ways to mix up my Weetabix breakfast cereal! I love these sorts of plain cereals, so for me? This was a piece of cake! Challenge accepted.  Since the Weetabix biscuits are so low and sugar and high fiber, it felt only natural to keep from adding a lot of…

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Filed Under: Cereals & Granola, Kitchen Chemistry Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, high fiber, Kitchen Chemistry, Life With Food Allergies, low glycemic, peanut free, sponsored, vegan, vegetarian

Getting Cool Bell Pepper Hummus in our Bellies and Spring Into Our Step!

April 1, 2015 By Food Retro

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m glad April is here! It’s finally spring. The time where Canadians come out of their home-caves and all swear to lose weight gained from being sedentary over the winter. I mean, you can hardly blame us, especially the last couple of winters. Too bad hubs isn’t retired…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Sauce & Condiments, Side Dishes, SLIDER, Snacks and Appetizers Tagged With: gluten free, high fiber, Kitchen Chemistry, low glycemic, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, vegan, vegetarian

Green Beans with Mozzarella + Tomatoes (Fagiolini in Tegame alla Italiana)

March 2, 2015 By Food Retro

I was tooling around in the grocery store, feeling the winter angst over crappy winter vegetable offerings, when I happened to see that–for once–there were actually some ripe Roma tomatoes on display. They smelled ripe, which is to say, they actually smelled like a tomato instead of stale grocery store. Hubs and kidlet aren’t usually fans of…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Side Dishes, SLIDER Tagged With: egg free, gluten free, low glycemic, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, soy free, tomatoes, vegetarian

Pumpkin Spice Mix (and Why You should Enjoy It)

September 5, 2014 By Food Retro

It used to be that the fall season was heralded by back to school sales, some lovely apples, and the changing of the leaves. Now I know that winter is coming when I see my first Instagram photo of a pumpkin spice latte. Within hours, the internet becomes full of Pumpkin Spice Everything and I’m…

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Filed Under: Herb Lore Things, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, Sauce & Condiments, SLIDER, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: cookies, dairy free, dessert, egg free, gluten free, Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, low glycemic, nut free, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

Adventure Bread

August 25, 2014 By Food Retro

You guys know how much I like my books. Raincoast Books was a dear and sent me Josey Baker Bread. It’s not only a fabulous recipe book with a cute guy in it, it’s a story about a guy who never ever thought he’d end up in the place he was as a full time baker;…

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Filed Under: Bread, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: bread, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, high fiber, low glycemic, no refined sugar, peanut free, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

No-Machine Ice Cream

June 2, 2014 By Food Retro

The ice cream in this photograph was made by a 5 year old boy with no special equipment. And out of soy milk (he’s got dairy allergies). Did you know that you and your kids can make ice cream at your Father’s day picnic, or while you’re on camping, or just out in your backyard…

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Filed Under: Desserts, Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER Tagged With: dairy free, dessert, Kitchen Chemistry, Life With Food Allergies, low glycemic, nut free, peanut free

Smooth Hummus from Canned Chickpeas

May 2, 2014 By Food Retro

What do you do when you’ve a potluck request for your super-smooth like store-bought, (Jerusalem-style) hummus, and you somehow hallucinate you have another day to soak the dried chickpeas, forgetting that to make it you would have to be grinding chickpeas in your food processor at 7am? I had a can of chickpeas left over…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER, Tips & Tricks, Weird Science Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, gluten free, how-to, Kitchen Chemistry, low glycemic, no refined sugar, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

Making Stock From a Bird Carcass

April 21, 2014 By Food Retro

I almost always walk home with the bird carcass from any family gathering. Nobody ever fights me for it because nobody knows how to make delicious soup from it. Or they can’t be bothered. Their loss! It makes me giddy because I love soup, and I’d rather have the soup than huge chunks of leftover…

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Filed Under: Frugal & Eco Things, Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, SLIDER, Tips & Tricks Tagged With: budget, dairy free, egg free, Health & Home, leftovers, low glycemic, main course, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, soy free

The Quest for the Best Smooth Hummus

February 17, 2014 By Food Retro

And just so you know up front, I found the Grail. Bear with me – this will be a bit of a long post, but there’s a reason. This isn’t really about the recipe. Hummus recipes are almost depressingly identical, give or take a few chickpeas. This post is longer because I’m covering and comparing the two…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Snacks and Appetizers Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, gluten free, high fiber, how-to, Kitchen Chemistry, low glycemic, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, snack, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

Make Your Own Tahini

January 6, 2014 By Food Retro

Tahini, a paste made from roasted sesame seeds, is one of those unusual foods that has gotten slapped with the labels “ethnic” and “vegan.” That’s no reason to give it the cold shoulder. The odds are that you probably have had tahini pass your lips, though, especially if you’ve ever enjoyed a hummus dip. I…

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Filed Under: Homemade Pantry, Kitchen Chemistry, Preserved foods, Sauce & Condiments Tagged With: dairy free, egg free, gluten free, Kitchen Chemistry, Life With Food Allergies, low glycemic, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, soy free, vegan, vegetarian

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