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One Pan Gnocchi Pesto Bake
We love the simplicity of this dish and it’s a great option for meal prep. You can also substitute vegan pesto for olive tapenade – or even rose harissa paste (trust us, it totally works!). Notes You can easily make this recipe gluten-free using gluten-free gnocchi. It’s also worth checking the label of the vegan pesto to be sure it doesn’t contain any gluten. If you don’t own an oven-proof pan, simply cook everything in a regular pan. Then at step 6, transfer the mixture to an oven dish, top with the vegan cheese and follow the remaining steps. You can try making your own vegan red pesto using our recipe for homemade…
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Mushroom + Cranberry Vegan Sausage Rolls
These delightful little things have a lot going for them. We create a sweet and tangy mushroom filling made using chestnuts, sage and dijon mustard. We then pair the mushroom mixture with cranberry sauce and roll it inside a sheet of vegan puff pastry. They’re wonderfully tasty and a great festive snack. Things you need to know: We use vacuum-packed chestnuts which have already been cooked and peeled. Alternatively you can par-boil them yourself for 15 minutes – just be sure to rinse them first then score them through to the soft inside We absolutely adore fresh sage. It’s one of our favourite herbs to use this time of year, but you can…
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Animal Toast (4 ways!)
I got all your toast needs covered. That is why I went crazy and made you these Animal Toast (4 ways!), using a different spread for each: cream cheese, Nutella, avocado, and peanut butter, now there is a toast for everyone! From: Mother’s Day Toasts, Woodland Animal Toast, even Groundhog Toast, I think it’s become apparent from the years of fun food making that I am a toast lover, particularly making animal toast. By the way, we had a vote over Instagram on which was the people’s favorite and it looks like the winner was: It was a close race but the runner ups are as follows: Make these for you kids and…
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Cupcake Terrariums
For the longest time, making food art was my meditative practice. It was my medium for getting in the zone, expressing my creativity, and focus on my breathing. I mean, putting every chocolate sprinkle in place for the kiwi cacti in these Cupcake Terrariums takes time, precision, and care. You HAVE to focus and go slow. So for about 8 years, this was my mindfulness practice. Then I had Jaxon and everything changed. I couldn’t bring myself to make food art all that much anymore because I was struggling just to feed my kid “normal” food. I couldn’t think of turning anything into bunnies, robots, or skulls. Plus, it all just stopped feeding…
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Toilet Roll Binoculars
These were super fun to make with my kiddo! We talked about all the cool things we’d be able to see up close as we taped up our Toilet Roll Binoculars and prepared for our walk (it has been WEEKS since we’ve been out!). We of course printed out our Nature Walk Bingo sheets, and as you can see from the photos below, it was a BIG hit…for the both of us. I had just as much fun telling him to use his binoculars to get a better view with everything we heard and saw. They come together easily in a matter of minutes, just as long as you have the following on…
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Printable Nature Walk Bingo
In honor of Earth Day coming up, I wanted to find ways to celebrate Mother Earth with my son, especially since I’ve been “homeschooling” his during this pandemic. And I put homeschool in loose quotes since he is only three and technically not enrolled in school. But let’s be honest, having some lesson plans/activities geared up actually helps me get through my days, so I created this printable Nature Walk Bingo for us. Click here for your (free) downloadable printable Nature Walk Bingo. Just print it out and laminate (optional) in order to make them last longer. Plus I you laminate them, you can use a Dry Erase marker to cross off each…
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Alternatives to Dyeing Easter Eggs
Are you trying to find alternatives to dyeing Easter eggs? Your reasons might be varied. It might be because you are vegan, because you don’t like hard boiled eggs, you don’t want to waste food, or because there are no eggs at your local market due to this weird time we are living in. Regardless of your personal reasons, I got you covered with these THREE crazy, creative ideas. I hope you love them as much as me and my family do: 1|3: Easter Egg Painted Rocks All you need is some acrylic paint and a brush on hand and the rest is up to nature. Go on a quick, mask-wearing hike out…
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Easter Egg Painted Rocks
I made an effort this past weekend to stock up on food to get us through a couple of weeks so I wouldn’t have to go out anymore than I needed to (thank you, pandemic). So here we sit, a few days until Sunday and no eggs to hard boil and dye. But that is okay because I am thinking that a new tradition has been created with these Easter Egg Painted Rocks. Rocks are the new eggs anyway. This doesn’t need a tutorial either. The concept is simple: Go on a nature walk and find the best rocks possible that resemble an egg shape (or don’t–do whatever you want; it’s a new…
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Macaroon Chicks
You guys, I think we are on our 87th round of Easter egg hunts in preparation for Sunday already. I made a mistake by taking my Easter bin out early last weekend and the little man (um, he’s THREE now–I know, I’ve been gone awhile!) spotted it and immediately wanted demanded an egg hunt. Cue to the 86 more times later…I’m egged out. But we’re preparing, you guys. Holidays are a big thing over here in the F&B’s household, (I am sure you got the feeling). and this Sunday I plan on doing a BIG egg hunt (and then put them away for another 364 days). Needless to say, I need a new…
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Bunny Soft Pretzels
Yeah I’m back. Well, back-ish. A lot can happen when you are in quarantine. Not saying I am consistently posting here but at least I am having fun (or at least trying to) while I’ve been in my house for a month straight. I think I stopped playing around over here for the simple reason that I was putting too much damn pressure on myself to be serious, be a brand, follow SEO, and blah blah blah–all the things that a pandemic quickly brings to light. It also makes you bake. So I baked Bunny Soft Pretzels since Easter is coming up but then again, what day are we in?! This is actually…
