Chile Spiced Pumpkin Seeds

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I try so very hard to eat non-processed, healthy, nutrient dense food. But one daily food craving in particular is making this healthy living business difficult for me! The problem – I love plain tortilla chips. I love them with salsa, hummus, guacamole or just with a squeeze of fresh lime juice. Yummmm! It’s become quite the vice lately though. I always crave them right after work + tend to binge a bit on them when I get home. I suppose there are worse things to crave, but I also know tortilla chips can be quite high in calories +…

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Cocoa Chai Granola

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Here is a delicious way to start your week! A quick-to-make granola inspired by my favourite tea from David’s Tea – the delicious, slightly spicy Cocoa Chai. Hints of chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and cardamom make this granola taste like pure heaven. Especially when mixed into some yogurt with some fresh raspberries. The cocoa flavour is nice + subtle, but combines so nicely with the chai flavour. If you’d like a bit more spice, add a pinch of cayenne into the mix. Hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was very nice! I finally got to have my first…

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Summertime Quinoa Salad

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For those of you lovely people who have followed The Fig Tree for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I love quinoa. In particular, I love making salads with quinoa. Using quinoa as a base, you can experiment with different dressings and add-ins, and you’ll end up with a different, unique salad every time. This past week, I decided to try a quinoa salad with a savoury garlic dressing. For the add-ins, I used medium Gouda cheese, toasted pumpkin seeds and chopped dried apricot. The combination was fantastic. I loved the sharp cheese along with the sweet apricots. The pumpkin…

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