Birch Recipes (select a category or search) — Vegan

Touch up your roots! Root vegetables are tuberous veggies where the edible portion of the plant grows underground. This would include potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, onion, garlic and yams to name a few.  These veggies generally have an inherent earthy sweetness to them that can either be enhanced with sweet spices and sauces or delightfully juxtaposed by savory spices, oils, and vinegars. Pure Birch Syrup, however, can lend semi-sweetness AND fruity tang which happens to taste delicious when layered with beets, carrots, parsnips and yams especially. This time we are going to keep things very, very simple to enable you to experiment...

Maybe you have a fully stacked day of meetings or school volunteering, bookings over the lunch hour or lots of prep to do before an important presentation. If you don't take the opportunity to fuel your body before this circus starts, you will have missed your chance at self care for the day. Most pantries are stocked to cater to a rotating carousel of a very limited set breakfast choices. Put a new spin on them to make breakfast more interesting and appealing to all of your senses. 

The original "London Fog" latte gets a rebirth here with a Birch Syrup twist. The end result is a smooth, creamy, delicately spiced version that is perfect for a Canadian winter. 

For some reason, our late mother used to insist that a good cup of tea could not be achieved unless we boiled the kettle twice before pouring the water into an already heated tea pot...An emerging trend are teas with flavored syrups added to lend dimension and enhance the natural essence of the tea itself.