Coconut Carrot Soup with Thai Gremolata

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This year for Earth Day, I made a personal goal to reduce the amount of food we waste on a weekly basis. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep an inventory of what’s in the fridge and use everything up before it goes bad. When you think about it, every time you allow food to go bad and throw it out, you are literally throwing money into the garbage. Food is not cheap these days. I feel like my grocery bill is ever increasing – especially now that we have switched to all organic fruits and veggies. Wasting less is…

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Vegan Chocolate Coconut Cream Pie

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This past December, my sister, my brother-in-law, my parents, Jesse and I celebrated Christmas in Hawaii. We spent two weeks basking in the sun in Honolulu on the island of Oahu. We dined on fresh tropical fruit and delicious treats such as macadamia nut banana bread with guava jam. Yum! Every single morning, I had a fresh mango smoothie and I drank my fair share of coconutty drinks! Between the fresh ocean air, the gorgeous scenery and then amazing local fruits and veggies, I became rather smitten with Hawaii-life. To be honest, I’d love to move to Hawaii one day. It would be such…

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Best Vegan Banana Bread

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Even though I cook a lot of vegan meals, I do not have a lot of experience with vegan baking. However, I recently found out that I have an intolerance to dairy and eggs (see: elimination diet) and I am now on a mission to re-create some of my favourite baked goods without any animal products. Previously, I had success with vegan “blondies” recipes (Strawberry Chocolate Blondies and Pumpkin Pecan White Chocolate Blondies), but felt that I still lacked the know-how to veganize a lot of my favourite baked goods. So, I bought a few cookbooks to help me transition to a mainly vegan…

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