Category: Recipes

  • A Cool treat to beat the Summer heat

    Hello Everyone! In my house, we try our best to avoid refined sugars and artificial flavours/colours. Come summer time, when the kids want an ice cold beverage, running to the store and grabbing what we call a Slurpee would be a quick fix. But I’ve discovered a quicker, easier and healthier way of doing this!…

  • An Icy Drink

    Want to treat you little ones to something nice and cold but the freezer is empty and the cubbies don’t look promising either? Here is a way to make your sunny summer afternoon a little cooler! All you need is: -blender -ice cubs -concentrated juice -a glass Step one: Put a whole bunch of ice…

  • Shauna’s Peanut Butter Squares

    Peanut Butter Squares are one of my old standbys as far as quick and easy plus being a total crowd pleaser.  I used to live on Salt Spring Island and there was a little cafe that served these and I loved them, as did my kids.  Eventually the cafe closed.  I was super sad that…

  • Recipe: Rice Crusted Nettle Quiche

    I’ve been spending my time the last week harvesting nettle. Such a delicious gift of the season. My first mug of fresh nettle tea always seems to awaken me from my winter hibernation. Here’s one of my favorite ways to incorporate nettle into my weekly menu. Rice Crusted Nettle Quiche preheat oven to 400F Crust: 1.cup uncooked brown…

  • Recipe: Quick energy fix!!

    Hi everyone, I don’t want to call myself a kitchen princess and I have been always a little anxious to share anything that comes out of my kitchen, but brave as I was, I brought over some energy balls to the Bamboletta studio and guess what, Christina took one bite and she was hooked! Luckily everybody…

  • Brandi’s Sushi Spring Rolls

    So the girls at the studio think I’m some kind of food guru or something.  I am nothing of the sort, but will admit that I am a little overly obsessive when it comes to food preparation.  At the studio, it’s sort of an unspoken rule that when an occasion arises, be it birthdays or…