Baking

When I made this recipe I was trying to create a protein packed vegan light pizza crust. The result was this Vegan Burger Pizza. What is that? A vegan Burger Crust base Pizza Sauce Vegan Butternut Cheeze Sauce Vegan Pizza Toppings The crust gets lost between pizza crust and veggie burger. It is firm around the edge but becomes almost like dense chili in the middle of the "pizza". Grab a napkin, this is a very messy and delicious meal! This is a hearty yet figure friendly comfort food meal. Let's talk crust shall we? This pizza crust is made of zucchini, lentils, quinoa and buckwheat. All suprefoods in their own right, all suitable for a healthy diet. This is not a pizza "dough". You don't roll or stretch it out. You spread it with a spoon and it bakes into whatever shape you give it. How easy is that?! This is also a high protein and high fibre crust (no not high protein when compared to a protein shake, but definitely offers more protein than traditional pi...

This zucchini noodle lasagna is so delicious and healthy! Here are the great nutritious swaps this recipe makes when compared to ordinary meat lasagna: zucchini replaces pasta vegan soy-free parnsip cream replaces traditional cheese or bechamel lentils replace beef This recipe sort of fell together. I was making a late night dinner for me and my husband. Neither of us were very hungry but we wanted something that tasted nice without being too heavy. I decided to make a vegan zucchini noodle lasagna. I made a similar recipe in my cookbook Every Day Super(Food) but that recipe involves a more labor intensive "cheeze" sauce. I wanted something quick for this recipe. I created this easy to whip up parsnip cream sauce to use in place of the cheese or bechamel sauce used in traditional lasagna. What a delicious creation!   We were given several parnsips last week by one of my employers so I decided they may make a good base for a sauce in this recipe. I use parnsips in my healthy v...

Ok wow. So I should start by saying this recipe makes me so happy. Just knowing a single-serving healthy cinnamon roll is only a few ingredients and a couple minutes away is just the stuff joy is made of. Am I right?! This recipe is super minimalist in terms of ingredients, equipment and technique. A child could make this recipe. In fact please make this with your child this weekend if you have one!     Let's look at the ingredients for my raw vegan cinnamon roll, shall we? coconut date rolls (ingredients: dates, coconut) dates cinnamon   No, I'm not kidding. These cinnamon roll are made with less than five all natural and gluten-free ingredients! These raw vegan cinnamon rolls are grain-free, vegan, gluten-free, paleo, nut-free, soy-free and vegan! Now let's look at the vanilla glaze ingredients shall we? vegan coconut milk powder (ingredients: dehydrated coconut milk, chicory) coconut water stevia maple or raw honey or agave or coconut nectar vanilla bean extract or po...

I have been craving PIZZA lately. But I don't think pizza is something I should eat often as it usually makes me queasy and I am not a fan of store bought vegan cheeze, so I created a few healthy pizza recipes to enjoy. This is my latest and greatest spin on vegan pizza, my Vegan Deluxe Pizza with gluten free Sweet Potato Crust! I made this single serving pizza for myself for brunch on Sunday. It was so delicious. I think I can count the number of vegan pizzas I've made in my life on one hand so I was very impressed with myself when this turned out so well and totally crushed my pizza cravings. Did I mention this pizza is super healthy and gluten-free? It is! In fact its kind of like a huge serving of vegetables disguised as a pizza. What could be better than that?! Like veggie burgers, I strongly believe that vegan pizzas are only great when loaded to the max with delicious toppings. Mine was buckling under a mass of veggies and a homemade vegan butternut squash cheeze sauce t...

Do you ever find yourself craving light summery food in February? I definitely do. It's probably my body's way of saying, "put down the fries". I found myself feeling like that all week. I wanted green juices, salads, green wraps and zucchini noodles! I'm glad I listened to my body instead of eating my husband's leftover rice last night. Meet my Summer Bowl! This bowl can be made semi-raw OR fully raw depending on your preference. It will leave you feeling nourished and refreshed either way. Its full if raw and vibrant vegetables, a light but creamy cucumber and tomato cream dressing, and a great array of textures and flavours. I put my new spiralizer to good use making spaghetti shaped noodles out of an English cucumber and a zucchini. I threw in some orange grape tomatoes, shredded savoy cabbage for crunch, and red bell pepper for colour and flavour. I love plain vegetables but I LOVE creamy sauce covered vegetables more. I would probably eat 2 heads of ka...

Just in time for Valentine's Day I bring you this super RED , super HEALTHY, vegan and gluten-free pasta recipe. I call this dish my Bed Of Roses because when I made these beet noodles and put them in a bowl they looked like a beautiful spirally bouquet of red roses. Luckily for you and me they didn't taste like flowers! So there's a bit of a back story here. I bought a Paderno three blade spiralizer this weekend on sale for $30. I'm pretty stoked about it because up until recently I was enjoying my Vegigetti spiralizer almost daily! The difference is vast between the two. The Paderno model allows you to spiralize firmer vegetables like potatoes and carrots, or in the case of today's recipe, beets!  I mean come on, how gorgeous are these beet spirals! Three different blades is a great feature too because it has introduced me to new shapes for my zoodles. I used the thickest blade for these gorgeous gigantic spirals. Beets were not the first thing I tried though...

This recipe...this recipe made my month! What a successful Baking Backwards experiment this was! So I bet you are wondering what exactly vegan Pizza Zoodles are...well, they are wonderful! Here is what is going on in this epic zucchini noodle bowl: zucchini noodle base cheezy vegan sauce made mostly from vegetables ( NO nutritional-yeast, NO soy, NO seeds. NO nuts) marinara sauce homemade vegan pepperoni slices (purple carrot or beet based vegan meat!) oregano and evoo drizzle for extra pizza flavour I think everything in this bowl is totally delicious on its own. I debated eating the vegan cheezy sauce as a rich bowl of soup...luckily for you I had other plans! This grain free healthy vegan pasta dish is very reminiscent of pizza flavours and textures. The vegan purple carrot "pepperoni" slices are worth their own blog post! Crispy on the edges, chewy in the middle, smokey, salty and slightly sweet. They are totally addictive and so much healthier than real pepperoni. Oh ya,...