Tag: Dried fruit

Peach Pie Soft Breakfast Cookies [Vegan] | EmmaEats

Soft Breakfast Cookies, 2 ways [Vegan]

September 5, 2013 by EmmaEats

We haven’t the best track record for getting to school on time. For three years running. Summer was truly a wonderful time for our household. The girls and I leisurely wandered from outing to outing, meeting friends and casually making our way through our days. So easy. So relaxed. Here we are now, along with many of you, a week into back to school and adapting to a new routine. We’re doing well so far. What’s made the difference? First, […]

Categories: Breakfast, Brunch, Recipes, Super School Snacks, Vegan • Tags: Apple, Apricot, Autumn Recipes, back to school, baking, Baking and Confections, Breakfast, Brunch, Cinnamon, Cooking, dairy-free, Dried fruit, Fall recipes, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Peaches, quick and easy, Recipes, spelt, summer recipes, Vegan, Whole wheat flour

Dairy-free Dark Chocolate, Apricot and Granola Muffins

[Dairy-Free] Dark Chocolate Granola Muffins with Honey and Apricots

February 28, 2013 by EmmaEats

It’s been a muffin-eating frenzy here lately. We don’t normally eat muffins very often. Many years ago, I had a failed attempt at making them (imagine mini boulders) and was scarred by the outcome. Now suddenly these little babies saunter into our kitchen and have been utterly irresistible to all members of our household. Emma even requested them for her snack day at school. Unbeknownst to her, these muffins are little fibre powerhouses. Between the whole wheat and spelt flours, […]

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Warm Moroccan Quinoa Salad

February 14, 2013 by EmmaEats

Another quinoa recipe? Oh, this must be good. And it is. Cozy and complex, not only is it delicious for the grownups, it’s a fantastic way to introduce Moroccan flavours to the kids. We stumbled upon this combination by accident — I was making the Mexican-style Quinoa and made way too much quinoa. The girls have been enjoying lots of dried fruits lately with our homemade granola and we happened to have Moroccan seasoning on hand from making this Chicken Tagine. Quinoa […]

Categories: Brunch, Dinner, Lunch, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Autumn Recipes, Brunch, dairy-free, Dried fruit, Fall recipes, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, quinoa, Recipes, Winter recipes

Family-friendly Christmas Fruitcake

December 20, 2012 by EmmaEats

Fruitcake snob = me. For the first 30+ years of my life, I did not like fruitcake. The thought of aged cake with glaceed fruits and almond paste that could be a year old or more was unfathomable. I was blissfully living a fruitcake-free existence when I realized that G loves it. I had no choice but to find a way to make this traditional cake palatable. Fruitcake has now become a family favourite. This was even our wedding cake. […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Autumn Recipes, baking, Baking and Confections, Christmas, Christmas cake, Dessert, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Fruitcake, Gift-giving, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Recipes

Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cherry Bites

December 6, 2012 by EmmaEats

It can’t be so. Cookies with no nuts, no butter and no eggs and entirely irresistible. Well, it is indeed so. These incredibly flavourful cookies are definite crowd-pleasers and even diehard non-vegans won’t even notice that these tasty morsels are in fact without the butter, egg and nut triumvirate. Emma picked these for her school snack day awhile back and the platter came back clean. Empty. As were the bowls of them at her birthday party. As was the tray […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes, Super School Snacks, Vegan • Tags: Autumn Recipes, baking, Baking and Confections, Cherry, Chocolate, Chocolate chip, coconut oil, Cooking, dairy-free, Dessert, desserts, Dried fruit, Fall recipes, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes, spelt, Vegan

Get the Balance Right — Homemade Caramel Corn, 4 ways

August 9, 2012 by EmmaEats

We’re fresh off a visit to Disney World. One of Emma’s favourite Disney treats, among the many, is caramel corn. In general, it’s off-limits since most varieties are plastered with peanut warnings or contain added nuts. So we’re not talking just any caramel corn here. This is a nut-free, explicitly-stated-on-the-package kind which we only find at one shop over on Main Street. On past trips, we’ve even returned home with a few bags. This time, however, we didn’t have to! […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes, Vegetarian • Tags: Baking and Confections, Caramel corn, Cherry, Chocolate, Cooking, Cranberry, dairy-free, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Gift-giving, Homemade, Kid-friendly, Maple syrup, nut-free, Recipes, Vegetarian

Her name is Cherry – Chewy Dark Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

April 12, 2012 by EmmaEats

Originally, I had no intention of posting a dessert recipe this week. We had a big family Easter weekend where we consumed so many sinful sweets like nanaimo bars and lemon squares, chocolate cake and truffles, not to mention the many chocolate eggs from the kids’ Easter egg hunt. After “Feaster”, this week should have been a “get-back-to-healthy-eating” week. But then, as I admired the eggs in Emma and Katie’s Easter basket, I remembered these cookies. Their dark and sweet and […]

Categories: Desserts, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Biscuit, Cherry, Chocolate, Chocolate chip, Cinnamon, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes, spelt

Made for a prince(ss)

September 9, 2011 by EmmaEats

August was a hot and stormy month around here. On top of the heat, our oven was suddenly on the fritz. Not that I would have turned on the oven in our already hot kitchen. However, this meant that my dessert-baking obsession was taking a serious beating throughout that time. As I’ve mentioned before, when Emma has friends coming by, she selects what treat she’d like to have for the visit. We were preparing to have some friends by for […]

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Scones - plain, lemon cranberry and pumpkin spice

Hello baby! – Lemon Cranberry Scones

July 22, 2011 by EmmaEats

It has been awhile! I’m happy to be posting again, and happy that you’re here reading. Things at Emma’s have been pretty topsy-turvy as of late — mainly because at the end of June, we welcomed a new member into our family: Katie. That’s right, Emma’s a big sister now. And, the first two weeks after Katie’s arrival lulled me into a false sense of security — and then BAM! she doesn’t sleep consistently anymore, all routines are blown away […]

Categories: Breakfast, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Breakfast, Brunch, Cranberry, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, healthy, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, pumpkin, quick and easy, Recipes, scone, scones, Whole wheat flour

C is for Cookie… — Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookie Bars

May 26, 2011 by EmmaEats

It has been a long time since my last post on EmmaEats. It’s certainly not been because Emma hasn’t been eating (well, we had a small spell of that when everyone here was sick for a few days!), however, things got a little busy here. G was travelling up a storm for work, we then had a delightful holiday to Paris, on our return, got sick, were catching Emma up on all of her missed classes/lessons, preparing for the arrival […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, Chocolate, Chocolate chip cookie, Chocolate chips, Cookie, Cranberry, Dessert, desserts, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Homemade, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes

In between meals… — Chewy Cranberry Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

March 3, 2011 by EmmaEats

Most of our friends (with and without children) are always looking for healthy, portable, easy to assemble snacks. When I was pregnant with Emma, I was looking for the same. I ate many All Bran bars, blueberries, Babybel cheeses and baby cut carrots, and although it satisfied my need to eat constantly, I would have been happier to have a bit more variety. I posted a granola recipe awhile back that is incredibly popular in our household and thought would […]

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All the leaves are brown… — Apricot and Raisin Granola

October 29, 2010 by EmmaEats

Well, fall seems to have arrived with a vengeance. Temperature has dropped nearly 10F everyday over the past few days! I feel as though we need a quick injection of something warm and cinnamon-y in the house. And since Emma’s also been asking (out of the blue, I may add), that she’d really like some granola, I’ve set to work on some. I never really thought I’d be the granola-making kind of girl, although I remember loving the Quaker granola […]

Categories: Breakfast, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Breakfast, Cinnamon, Cooking, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, gluten-free, Granola, healthy, Kid-friendly, Martha Stewart, nut-free, oil-free, quick and easy, Recipes