Healthy & Easy Slow-Cooker Ketchup
When I mention making my own ketchup to people, I often see some eye-rolling and get some comment about how I have too much time on my hands, lol. The truth is homemade ketchup is almost too easy. You dump everything into the slow cooker and walk away. You also have the option to preserve […]
Homemade Brazilnut Butter
Brazil nuts are high in a mineral called selenium, which is a powerful mineral, with too many benefits to list. Selenium can be supportive in the areas of thyroid health, male fertility, healthy immune function and red blood cell metabolism, and is part of the “anti-aging” nutrient group. Even though selenium is a very important […]
Beet, Red Pepper & Dill Soup
Walking through the market this morning, with my chai coconut milk latte in one hand and a reusable tote in the other, I looked like the total stereotype. However, grabbing a latte and visiting the market is my little dose of self-indulgence during an especially busy and hectic week. I shop alone (no kids in […]
3 Ingredient Peach Jam- No Refined Sugars or Pectin
Coming home from the Okanagan Valley this year I could not resist stopping into my favourite farm and grabbing myself a 20-pound box of peaches. However, I think by the time we made it home it was about a 15-pound box after being in the backseat with the kids. Once home, I placed the box […]
Raw Garden Fresh Tomato Sauce
When you bite into a warm, ruby-red tomato right off the vine and the juice runs out, it’s pure magic. Tomatoes you buy in the store just do not compare to smell and taste to the ones right from the garden. When it’s time to pick the tomatoes, I get so excited because I […]