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6 Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

6 Chocolate Recipes for Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! Below I have rounded up six delicious chocolate recipes to celebrate your and your loved ones today. If the commercialization of Valentine’s Day isn’t your thing, that’s ok – I’m a bit of a Valentine’s Grinch myself – but who doesn’t love 

Chocolate Pecan Toffee Bars

Chocolate Pecan Toffee Bars

Valentine’s Day is less than a week away and what better way to celebrate than with chocolate?

Crispy Garlic Potatoes

Crispy Garlic Potatoes

This recipe has been on my ‘to be posted’ list for years. The reason that I’m only sharing it now is that I procrastinated shooting the accompanying photos until now… The recipe itself has been in my draft posts since last summer and in my recipe journal since winter 2022. Continue reading Crispy Garlic Potatoes

Roasted Red Pepper + Cauliflower Soup

Roasted Red Pepper + Cauliflower Soup

Happy Saturday! It’s finally starting to feel like winter around here after weeks of unseasonably mild weather. With the temperatures dropping deep into the negatives, I’m inclined to lean towards more warming and hardy foods. Enter Roasted Red Pepper + Cauliflower Soup!

Roasted Squash Soup with Coconut Milk

Roasted Squash Soup with Coconut Milk

Although I love summer, the transition towards more autumnal temperatures and the first colours of fall have been refreshing. Fall is a season of many things: pumpkin spices lattes, apple desserts, and the official start of soup season – my favourite!

Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups with Toasted Buckwheat

Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups with Toasted Buckwheat


Back in December I went to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto to get a bit of holiday shopping out of the way. For those of you that are not familiar, the One of a Kind Show is a large multi-day convention of Canadian vendors that is open to the public to attend (for an entrance fee). The vendors’ products range from food, to art, to ceramics, to clothing or accessories. It’s a super fun way to spend a weekend day, which is exactly what we did. While we were there, I stumbled upon a business called Allo Simonne that sells a variety of different hazelnut butter spreads. I sampled a few of them and ended up walking away with the Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Spread with Toasted Buckwheat. It sounds like a bit of a weird combination, but oh my goodness was it ever good! The flavours from that hazelnut spread are what inspired the flavours for this recipe. Continue reading Chocolate Hazelnut Butter Cups with Toasted Buckwheat

Strawberry & Pistachio Bark with Flaky Salt

Strawberry & Pistachio Bark with Flaky Salt

It’s no secret that I love chocolate. I have never been huge on candy, but chocolate is something that I always keep on hand. I especially love dark chocolate. If we’re getting specific, I love the Lindt Excellence Ecuador 75% Cacao chocolate the most. I 

Sheet Pan Sweet Potato Salad with Lemony Tahini Sauce

Sheet Pan Sweet Potato Salad with Lemony Tahini Sauce

At the end of the winter semester when I was in the thick of group projects and was bouncing between group meetings I had one evening where my meetings went well past 10pm. Between meetings, I scored the pantry and fridge looking for something I 

Decadent Hot Chocolate

Decadent Hot Chocolate

With the unfortunate resurgence of winter weather we are currently experiencing here in Southern Ontario, I thought there would be no time like the present to share one of my favourite winter recipes, but who am I kidding? I make this hot chocolate recipe all year around, but it is especially nice to enjoy whilst curled up by the fire watching snowflakes flutter down outside your window or while staying indoors to avoid the frigid wind chills like I am currently doing. Continue reading Decadent Hot Chocolate

Vegetarian “Sausage” & Noodle Soup

Vegetarian “Sausage” & Noodle Soup

I don’t know what it’s like where you all are, but it has been absolutely freezing here in Ontario the past few weeks. At this point in the season I seem to have a semi-permanent raspy voice from running outdoors in these crazy cold temperatures.