Birch Recipes (select a category or search) — Vegetarian
Gaye Glowacki
Birch Roasted Roots
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...
Gaye Glowacki
Birch for Breakfast - 2 Ways
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.
Gaye Glowacki
Pecan Birch Scones
Pecans grow on trees and birch syrup certainly does. Put the two together and you have one delicious set of companions. This scone recipe makes lovely puffy, light scones using a standard scone baking method. The secret to a great light scone is...
Gaye Glowacki
Birch Winter Fog Latte
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.