Tag Archives: snacks

Strawberry Watermelon Slushies

Made with just three ingredients, these Strawberry Watermelon Slushies are filled with fresh, flavourful fruit for a quick and refreshing drink!
Made with just three ingredients, these Strawberry Watermelon Slushies are filled with fresh, flavourful fruit for a quick and refreshing drink! Guys, I was not made for the heat. Some people love it, wait all year for those hot days and just luxuriate in it. I do not. Maybe we should have rethought this… Read More

Nightshade Free Antipasto Platter

Nightshade Free Antipasto Platter - I Say Nomato
Learn how to create a colourful, welcoming Nightshade Free Antipasto Platter that will be a hit at your next party!    Is there anything more welcoming than a platter full of your favourite foods? I don't think there is. My family tends to go all out for holidays. And I mean. All. Out. I'm part of… Read More

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

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Decadent, rich Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. The stuff dreams are made of!
If you make any food at all in your house, you know that there comes a time in every relationship when you must attempt the impossible: Make your partner's favourite recipe from when they were a kid. Ah yes, that macaroni casserole laced with summer picnic nostalgia, that pie whose smell wafts through the halls… Read More

Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Crispy bacon wrapped around sweet dates, these babies are the perfect appetizer! Bacon Wrapped Dates - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
In the little town where I went to university, there is a pub that makes THE BEST burgers I have ever eaten. Seriously, on all our travels I could find nothing to fill the hole that burger left in my heart. It’s the kind of burger that you pick up and everything falls off because… Read More

Roasted Garlic Chickpeas

These Roasted Garlic Chickpeas are perfect for an easy, hot snack! With lots of kick, they're sure to brighten your afternoon!
How do you cook with chickpeas? I honestly don’t know. Or garbanzo beans???? They are also a mystery. (Ha. Ha.) I swear if I were ever in a cooking competition and they revealed the next challenge as make something – anything! with chickpeas, I would have to quit right there. Hands thrown in the air,… Read More

Nightshade Free Nachos

My family has a deep and abiding love of awful jokes. One time on a 5 hour road trip, we made tree puns for the whole drive. You’d think we’d have run out of material. You’d be wrong. Seriously, if we had to choose between life and never telling another groaner again, we’d be toast. So… Read More

Feta and Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms

Real Talk Time: mushrooms are weird. Whichever one of our ancestors looked at these weird white things growing on a rotten tree and decided to not only touch them, but eat them, must have been verrrry hungry. Not to mention they probably died because they ate the poisonous ones. Thank you for your sacrifice, Oog-Oog,… Read More