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Book Club Tuesday: The Yellow Table

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Well, last week I did something that was waaaay out of my comfort zone — I announced to my friends (on Facebook) that I’m writing cookbook reviews. Actually I may have just posted a link and may have not mentioned that it was my review (since it’s all Shipshape-Eatworthy my friends might have needed to guess that it was me). Chicken? Afraid of looking foolish? I’m not too sure but it’s funny that I have this huge passion for all things cooking but when it comes to telling people who I know (maybe not as much in person, but definitely online) I can’t. It makes me anxious. Funny that I get no anxiety from posting my reviews for complete strangers to read…anyways, I bring this up simply because I admire people who can put themselves “out there.” One such person who has my undying admiration is Anna Watson Carl, author of The Yellow Table cookbook & blog.

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Book Club Tuesday: Cut the Sugar: You’re Sweet Enough

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Happy New Year everyone!! So glad to be back! Sweet ’16 right?? Well it’ll be the only thing that is because today I’m going to review Ella Leché‘s Cut the Sugar: You’re Sweet Enough. Her vegan and gluten-free cookbook promotes a healthy lifestyle without being dependent on refined ingredients. Natural and clean — just the way we want to begin the new year!

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Book Club Tuesday: How to Feed a Family

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So I’m not going to lie. It’s a given that having children is not easy. It’s emotional (in the best way possible) and pretty rewarding (IMHO). When my daughter was born, I wanted to “do everything right” — famous last words. I wanted to ensure that I provided her with nutritional experiences that set her up to be in love with food and eating. I tried to eat all of the “right” foods while I was pregnant, then while nursing (I’d heard somewhere that this is where babies develop their initial tastes), and then when she started solids I was going to start her off “right.” The road to hell is often paved with good intentions and while I tried (and am trying every day) — guess what? My toddler has a mind and preferences all her own. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great thing except I wish that cooking each meal was easier. This is where Laura Keogh and Ceri Marsh, the minds behind the fabulous site Sweet Potato Chronicles,  enter into the picture.

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Book Club Tuesday: Oh She Glows

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So I haven’t always been a) a vegetarian b) health conscious c) a good cook. My Mom keeps telling me that out of all of the things she thought I would be passionate about in life that cooking and nutrition wouldn’t be one of them.  I can see what she means – I never really expressed an interest or desire in cooking. I wasn’t around people who talked passionately about cooking either. I did, however, have great role models. My two biggest culinary influences when I was growing up were my mom and grandmother. I grew up in a home where my mother made every meal from scratch because this is what she did. There was no Instagram or fancy social media platforms to encourage home cooks. She was a stay at home mom and cooking was one of the zillion things she did.

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Book Club Tuesday: My New Roots

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Ok. I’m back again for another review (how many times does a person have to do something before it becomes a habit? I’m really starting to look forward to writing these Tuesday reviews). This week I’ll be reviewing Sarah Britton’s My New Roots: Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season. After last week’s review of Amy Chaplin’s At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen, I realized that each author’s success is partly born from a particular expertise. In the case of Amy Chaplin and Emma Galloway, they’re both chefs. For Sarah Britton, she is a holistic nutritionist (among other things). One of the things I enjoy most about her writing and recipes is her unabashed enthusiasm regarding health and nutrition – even I was excited about her Revolutionary Pancakes (just read her blog post and you’ll see what I mean)! I like how she re-thinks everyday ingredients and makes them into something special — take the humble avocado. Who could believe that, in combination with cashews, it could become one of the most sinfully delicious vegan ice creams in creation? Have a gander at these Mint Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches and see if you don’t agree.

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Book Club Tuesday: At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen

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It seems like everything is more expensive these days. From food to cookbooks, your precious kitchen scratch needs to go further. This is why (I’m going to really give it a try) each week I’ll post a review of a cookbook I enjoy using – one that I feel is definitely worth buying. Last week I posted a review for one of my all-time favourite cookbooks: My Darling Lemon Thyme by Emma Galloway. This week I’ll review another cookbook that shares the same space on my kitchen counter as My Darling – At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well by Amy Chaplin.

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Book Club Tuesday: My Darling Lemon Thyme

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I’ve been waiting awhile to write a post — Instagram is great but it’s not for writers. Since deciding to move my small blog from Tumblr to WordPress I’ve been waiting for a moment to write something that felt important to me. Well, something exciting is happening – Emma Galloway’s My Darling Lemon Thyme cookbook is having its North American release today! I’m not a blogger by any means but I really have so much to say about this book that I thought it best to write a review for it. I think the first thing that struck me about her book was the lack of labels – vegan, gluten-free, vegetarian — just real food. This lack of labelling, I think, helps people to just see the delicious recipes between the pages without getting hung up on what diet you need to have. The recipes are adaptable and forgiving. If you want to make your own tomato sauce there’s a recipe for that but if you use store-bought that’s fine too.

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