Tag Archives: fruit

Watermelon and Strawberry Fruit Salsa

This Watermelon and Strawberry Salsa can go either sweet or savoury, and apples give it the perfect crunch!
This Watermelon and Strawberry Fruit Salsa can go either sweet or savoury, and apples give it the perfect crunch! It’s not often I have a Saturday where I can just mess around with food and try out all the ideas that have been kicking around in the ol’ noggin ('recipe development', more like 'throw things in… Read More

Crunchy Pear and Brie Crepes

Crunchy Pear and Brie Crepes - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
One of my most favourite book series of all time are the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. Thick, but easy books aimed for the young and the eternally young, they’re stories written for those yearning for adventure, the clash of good and evil. You could argue that the main characters in these books are all the creatures that inhabit… Read More

Panettone French Toast

Panettone French Toast - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
If you come visit my family during the holidays, it’s a pretty good bet you’ll leave with your arms full of panettone. What is, panettone you ask, eyes full of wonder. This. This, my dear friends is panettone: (more…) Read More

Nova Scotia Blueberry Grunt

***Since posting this recipe, it has come to my attention that blueberries contain solanine, which is one of the glykoalkaloids responsible for nightshade allergies. If you are on a nightshade free diet, please proceed with caution unless you are certain that blueberries are okay for you! You can find more information here.***   One of the first… Read More

Week 18

    Happy Friday everyone!   This week's lunch is pretty basic, nothing too fancy. I've been geeking out over summer fruit, and Mr. Nomato's lunches are proof of that. It's healthy sugar right? Full of fibre? YES. Snack Sliced celery with peanut butter for dippin'. Lunch Raspberry and Feta Cheese Summer Salad (minus the… Read More

Raspberry and Feta Cheese Summer Salad

I’ve really been digging fruit-based salads this summer. I’m not normally a ‘salad person’ as much as I try to be, but the fruit we’ve been getting has been absolutely spectacular. Case in point: Strawberry Spinach Salad. These raspberries HAD to be the star in something! And the cheese… well, the cheese had to have a… Read More

Blueberry Banana Smoothie Bowl

***Since posting this recipe, it has come to my attention that blueberries contain solanine, which is one of the glykoalkaloids responsible for nightshade allergies. If you are on a nightshade free diet, please proceed with caution unless you are certain that blueberries are okay for you! You can find more information here.***   Mornings are hard. There’s no… Read More

Amaretto Sour Cupcakes

(Just a heads up! I have both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions of this recipe.) Guys. Guys. This is one of the best experiments I have ever done, sorry Tidepool Jello Cups. Pound cake cupcakes infused with nutty Amaretto, topped with a sweet but sour lemon frosting... They are perfection. These are now my official, go-to… Read More