Author: dremina

Warm up your cool autumn evenings with this delicious, savoury pasta recipe. This Red Thai Curry Fettuccini whips up in about 20 minutes and uses easily accessible ingredients that you can find in almost any grocery store. Try this leftover-friendly recipe as part of your meal prep or as an easy weeknight dinner! Prep time:…

These vegan chai pecan cookies are aromatic, gluten-free, oil-free, dairy-free and full of rich chai spices, soft texture and pecans. This recipe uses the Chai Spice blend from our local Kelowna Don-O-Ray Farms containing a ground blend of fennel seed, black cardoon, cloves and cinnamon. 1 ¼ cups Oat flour, super fine 2 tsp Chai ground…

If you feel like a home-made one-pot dish in 25 minutes – this Thai Vegetable Noodle Soup is for you – you just need to prep the spice blend in advance!  This recipe is loaded with veggies & warm Thai spices to satisfy your belly on a cold winter night. ½ cup thinly sliced scallions…

Can’t find a tofurkey? This dish offers a perfect savoury-sweet contrast of tart-but-sweet cranberry glaze coupled with a hearty loaf. It fulfills every requirement of a holiday dinner main dish. A whole foods, plant-based alternative to the holiday turkey or tofurkey. Try this delicious and interesting Vegan Loaf for your holiday meal, and smother it…

Warm up on a cold winter day with this Creamy Indian Vegetable Korma recipe. Aromatic spices and creamy coconut milk make for a healthy and satisfying vegan dish. FOR THE SAUCE 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and halved 3 cloves garlic, peeled 1 (1-inch) piece ginger root, roughly chopped 1 jalapeno pepper, stemmed and seeded…

Experiencing pain, whether it’s from an injury or a repetitive posture, can be a complicated and frustrating process. Although there are similarities in the expression of pain, every individual’s encounter with pain is unique to them. Massage therapy can be applied using a variety of techniques to help reduce pain and educate the client about…

A delicious twist on green beans and potatoes – Romesco Roasted Potatoes and Green Beans Roasted Veg: 2 pounds Yukon gold yellow or red potatoes chopped into ½ inch cubes 1 ½ tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1 lb green beans, chopped into 1 inch pieces Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Romesco-Inspired…

What if I told you that there is a very effective treatment for chronic pain that has been around since the 40’s, that can correct pain in as little as one treatment, and is taught around the world… but you likely have never heard of it? Intriguing, right? The treatment that I am referring to…

Vegan, gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, refined sugar-free, soy-free – all this and the best lentil soup we’ve had yet! Lentils are rich in fibre, folate and at least 7 different minerals. They are a also great source of protein in a vegan diet. We love this soup as it relies mostly on pantry staples. It is so quick and easy…

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women and the second highest cause of female cancer mortality.1 Nature-based therapies (NBT) such as forest bathing (aka forest therapy or FT) shows promising research in its ability to upregulate the immune system in women with breast cancer. While most of us intuitively feel better…