First Nations Food Inspired Dish When I first moved to British Columbia, my mom and I attended a session at VIU’s Shq’athut where we learned about First Nations protocols and we were also able to enjoy the most amazing soup and bannock I have ever had. Before this event, I had always thought of bannock …
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Testing Out the New Canada Food Guide – Healthy Breakfast Assignment
At the beginning of 2019, Health Canada released its new dietary suggestions with a revised Canada Food Guide. This guide is different than previous versions with greater emphasis on conscious eating and mindfulness, plant-based options, and getting back to cooking whole foods in the kitchen. Today I tried out a recipe from the Health Canada …
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Working With a Basic Recipe: (Almost Vegan) Pineapple Muffins
In my experiences with baking, I’ve run into more than a few occasions where I’ve realized a little too late that I’m missing an ingredient. Today was one of those days. It happened to coincide perfectly with this assignment though, since I decided not to take that extra trip to the store and create a …
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Reviewing the Starfrit Spiralizer
The Starfrit Spiralizer was a really fun product to use. Although I’m not one to use a lot of gadgets in my kitchen or follow food trends, I really enjoyed the end result of my spiralized produce. The product is lightweight (under 2 lbs) and takes up about as much space on your counter as …
What Does Food Mean to Me?
For the longest time, I have collected old cookbooks. It started with a love of my mum’s old copy of “Joy of Cooking”. It’s pages were stained and dog-eared, and contained little notes in the margins of improvements she made, or shortcuts she’d discovered. I wanted to borrow it to take to my first apartment …
Welcome to My New Food Blog
Hello! My name is Rachel, I’m 32 years old and I have been cooking up a storm since I was a teenager. I regularly cook for my daughter, although because it’s just the two of us at home, I seem to cook the same things over and over again. Although we do not have any …
Roots and Foods 