Top 34 "Must Follow" Canadian Food Bloggers
2020 Nov 30th
Blogging about food has become a national pastime for Canadians. Thanks to social media, many people are posting pictures of their favourite dishes and sharing their recipes and ideas. The following 30 blogs are just a taste of what Canadian foodies have to offer.
From coast to coast, Canadians are sharing their love of food through traditional or inventive meal ideas, while adding their own unique personalities to their personal blogs.
Check out these delicious foodie blogs that will tantalize your tastebuds and have you racing to your kitchen or local market!
1. A Canadian Foodie
Valerie Lugonja centres her love of food and cooking style around traditional Canadian Prairie cuisine. Her award-winning blog features a variety of recipes for all seasons, from breakfast to dessert. Her foodie philosophy is simple: she believes when food is made in the home for family and friends, the time spent cooking and enjoying a meal together helps create and build long-lasting relationships. Valerie’s focus on authentic Prairie recipes is a truly Canadian way of keeping beloved traditions alive for all generations.
2. Simple Bites
Aimée Wimbush-Bourque created her Canadian food blog to be family friendly. She focuses on bringing everyone to the table to enjoy homemade meals, as well as offering honest tips for cooking with children. Aimée’s desire is to help Canadian foodies prepare unprocessed, wholesome, and delicious meals locally and seasonally. Her encouragement and honesty in her cooking tutorials has helped her blog win awards and appreciation from Canadians coast to coast.
3. Family Feedbag
Amy Bronee writes her foodie blog from her family home in Victoria, BC. Everything is homemade; Amy creates, prepares and serves every recipe that is featured on her award-winning blog. Amy also features many canning recipes and has easy-to-follow tutorials for beginners who may find canning scary. Her focus is simple: where does food actually come from and how do Canadians prepare it in a fun, easy-to-follow way to create memories and traditions.
4. Rock Recipes
Barry Parsons has hundreds of recipes listed, from breakfast to dessert, that he has either created on his own or has added his personal Newfoundland flair. Barry photographs each culinary creation to accompany his vast archive of delicious meals and updates his popular foodie blog regularly. If you want to add an East Coast twist to your favourite dish, Rock Recipes is sure to have it.
5. Family Bites
Jan Scott specializes in event planning and preparing fun meals for kids. Many of her recipes focus on family get-togethers and celebrations for all festivities. Jan’s blog is great for party and food ideas. One of her more popular tutorials is a DIY Mac’n’Cheese bar - a Canadian favourite, of course!
6. 80Twenty
Kris Osborne’s food blog is gorgeous to look at. Kris’ photographs of her delicious meals would inspire almost every Canadian to recreate one of her recipes at home. Her foodie philosophy is eating nourishing food 80 per cent of the time and eating whatever we want 20 per cent of the time. Her recipes are a harmonious balance between good food and what’s good for us.
7. Sweet Potato Chronicles
Laura Keogh and Ceri Marsh team up for this foodie blog devoted to family meals. Laura and Ceri know that kids’ likes and dislikes change as they grow up. This blog follows these ups and downs in an honest, yet hilarious way as they know how parents try to get dinner on the table. Their recipes have a fun take on easy, nutritious meals that even the busiest parent can manage.
8. Living Lou
Louisa Clements is only 22 years old and her food blog showcases her Toronto-style living. Lou, as she prefers to be called, is passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and her blog is full of simple, yet tasty meals. She has a section devoted to 5 ingredient recipes, which is very handy for those who are just starting out living on their own.
9. eat. live. travel. write.
Mardi Michaels writes about her culinary adventures, both near and far. Many of her recipes feature French cuisine, which is a passion of hers as she is a full-time French teacher in Toronto. Her French Friday recipes will surely inspire your inner Julia Child!
10. Sweetopia
Marian Poirier has a passion for all things sweet. Marian’s sugar art is incredible and her photographs of cookies, cakes and pastries will bring a sweet smile to everyone. There are tutorials for icing and design, as well a page dedicated to baking terms. Marian certainly sweetens the average chocolate chip cookie recipe.
11. sweetsugarbean
Renée Kohlman combines her three favourite things in her blog: cooking, food photography and writing. Her cooking mantra is butter always, never margarine! Renée’s recipes feature local, organic and natural ingredients, and she documents her culinary adventures in her little green kitchen.
12. Clockwork Lemon
Stephanie Eddy is passionate about baking. Each recipe includes honest how-tos and pictures to help keep check for even the most advanced baker. Stephanie also includes her travels and writes about her many adventures both in and out of the kitchen.
13. Crumb
Isabelle Boucher loves to create her recipes from ingredients found in her own garden and from her local market. Her humour is evident throughout her blog as she is the first to admit that not every ingredient is from scratch, as she quips about making puff pastry a “surefire path to insanity.” Isabelle is active within the Canadian food blog community and shares her favourite tips and tricks from it.
14. Dinner with Julie
Julie Van Rosendaal created her food blog in response to recipe requests for “real meals.” As a food and nutrition columnist on the Calgary Eyeopener on CBC Radio One, Julie’s followers are avid followers of her well-written blog. She incorporates her travels with her recipes, and features local cuisine at every stop in her adventures.
15. Tara O Brady
Tara O’Brady is a brilliant writer and includes her favourite recipes with every story. Her stunning photographs and blog have been featured many times over in the media, so don’t miss out in finding your new favourite food on seven spoons.
16. Lord Byron's Kitchen
Byron is a lover of food, cats, crochet, and Christmas. He has worked at a private school for over 15 years and did not find his passion for cooking and baking until much later in the years. In fact his ex-wife would do most of the cooking for him. He learned to cook vegetarian food when he met his current partner. This pushed him to learn to pursue his passion for cooking even further.
On Lord Byron's Kitchen you can find many different types of cooking recipes starting from pastas, breakfast, appetizers, and side dishes, to salads, dips, and beverages. A big part of his cooking blog consists of Christmas recipes and pastry decorations. If you are interested in baking some of the best cookies for your next Christmas party, Lord Byron’s Kitchen is a good resource for learning how to bake them.
17. Seasons and Suppers
Jennifer loves to cook simple, seasonal meals that are delicious and delightful to look at. Her recipes cover all meal ideas and are written for the more experienced cook in the kitchen. If you’re up for a challenge, Jennifer’s seasonal suppers are the way to go.
18. oh she glows
Angela Liddon has created one of the most popular Canadian food blogs with her easy-to-follow and delicious vegan recipes. Angela chronicles her passion for healthy living and shares her advice, stories and cooking tidbits on her award-winning blog. Angela is definitely one of Canada’s top food bloggers to follow.
19. Bacon is Magic
Ayngelina Brogan is a culinary travel writer. She travelled the world, followed her stomach and has tasted ethnic and traditional foods from all over. Ayngelina is now situated in Toronto, where she lives with the love of her life, who happens to be a professional chef. Ayngelina’s blog is a beautiful story of combining her passions of travel and food.
20. The Recipe Rebel
Ashley loves to cook and bake… her way. She is the first to admit that her measurements are eyeballed and her dry ingredients aren’t sifted, but her family and friends love the meals she prepares and that’s all that really matters to Ashley. Her blunt honesty and beautiful food photographs make this up-and-coming food blog a definite one to follow.
21. Let's Om Nom
Cindy is from Edmonton and loves to promote the local restaurants and food vendors through her photographs and reviews. Her blog is popular and is considered an authority for people living in and visiting her beloved Canadian city. Cindy is not afraid to try any type of food, and is willing to share her thoughts about all the splendid food Edmonton has to offer.
22: Life Without Lemons
Elyse Chatterton was trained as an English Butcher, which leads to the birth of her blog, "Life Without Lemons."
She has been featured in "Slow Food Edmonton." Her blog contains posts that present her interest in the kitchen. The butcher page includes quotes from Jo Brand "If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?” https://www.facebook.com/lifewithoutlemons/
You can expect to find a unique variation of posts from her butcher Guide that have tutorials like "How to Tie a Butcher Knot to delicious recipes like "Chilli & Sesame Thai Dressing."
23. The Fig Tree
Courtney Rae Jones’ blog is all about veggies. Her recipes are inspired from around the world and showcases that vegetarians really do have a lot of fun in the kitchen. Courtney’s blog categorizes her recipes by global, seasonal and ingredient influences, and is full of endless vegetarian delights.
24. The Messy Baker
Charmian Christie specializes in “approachable, inspiring, from-scratch cooking.” Her award-winning blog is fun and offers many recipes that would inspire even the most inexperienced cook. Each post has a beautiful photo of the most mouth-watering meals that could be created in your home kitchen.
25. Hidden Ponies
Anna Nienhuis loves to share her collection of simple, tried-and-true recipes for families. Anna loves food and loves to cook favourite dishes for her family, and has shared her thoughts and ideas through her easy-to-follow recipes. This is a great blog for traditional home-cooked comfort meals for all Canadians to enjoy.
26. Simply Stacie
Stacie is a multifaceted woman. Being a mother of two girls, and a military wife that has move all over Canada, Stacie decided in 2008 to start blogging. Killing time while the girls were at school is how simply Stacie started, but soon her blog grew to be more than a hobby and creative outlet. Featured in publications as large as Redbook, Prevention, Women’s Day and People indicates how great of a writer Stacie has grown in such a short duration.
Stacie is always looking for partnering with brands and fellow bloggers. Reaching out to Canada is what Stacie enjoys most. Her site features so much more than food. Crafts, pets, home décor, and weight loss are just a mere few subsections on her page. Stacie even writes about vehicle reviews and technology. We said she is multifaceted!
27. The Kitchen Magpie
The Kitchen Magpie, also known as Karlynn has excelled in the Canadian food blog world quicker than anyone. Her blog has been read by many for over a decade. Karlynn prides herself in not allowing any recipe contributors. The Kitchen Magpie recipes are all Karlynn’s. Continuing with her creative writing style, Karlynn is also a proud author of two cookbooks. “Flapper Pie & a Blue Prairie Sky” has been featured on QVC! “The Prairie Table” is Karlynn’s second fantastic cookbook wonderfully written about family gatherings in the great open skies.
What sets The Kitchen Magpie apart from other food blogs is the “Kitchen School” section. Here you can learn about everything you wanted to know about cooking but were afraid to ask. Like Karlynn states, you will learn about calamari, lo mein vs chow mein, and microwavable corn. The kitchen school is a great place to sit the kids down to learn a bit about food and the kitchen.
28. Closet Cooking
Kevin was never even into food. He finally got fed up with boring meals and food in general. Turning the corner, Kevin jumped in headfirst into the world of food. Now, learning and researching all things food is all what Kevin does regularly. Kevin’s closet-sized kitchen made his blog name easy to choose.
closetcooking is written in a very technical manner. Kevin has indexed everything flawlessly. The indexing of recipes by course, diet, meat, cuisine and host of other variables makes the closetcooking blog one of the most mathematically advanced sites we have read. This website has a layout that all will enjoy viewing. Kevin even has all his recipes in 12 eCookbooks available for purchase on closetcooking.
29. Food Bloggers of Canada
Melissa Hartfiel, Ethan Adeland and Mardi Michels started the FBC website in 2011. They believe that the FBC is for fostering and promoting Canadian food blogging to Canada and the world. On the FBC, one can find a multitude of subjects. Themes such as weekly menu plans, restaurant reviews, beer and wine are just a couple of examples of this well put-together website.
The FBC has become a go-to site for all bloggers in Canada to obtain advice, comradery, and help. Becoming a Canadian Tastemaker or a Featured Canadian Blogger on the FBC will get you noticed quickly. The FBC is one of the top sites to reach out to if you are interested in Canadian blogging. The Food Bloggers of Canada has an excellent brand partnership and programs for all to use.
30. Meghan Telpner
Being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2008, Meghan realized how important nutrition is for the body. Studying as much as she could about the subject, Meghan became the Director of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. Through education, Meghan has written a number 1 bestseller entitled “Undiet: Eat your Way to Vibrant Health”. Meghan continues to educate those in nutrition. She has aided in the graduation of 1,800 students at the Academy.
Meghan’s blog encompasses more than nutrition. Beauty, health, business, and travel are a few topics Meghan explores on her page. Following Meghan’s advise will enable your mind, body and soul to become more efficient guaranteed!
31. Earth, Food, and Fire
Chef Markus Mueller lives in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. His training at the Sceau Rouge, along with his upbringing has led Chef Mueller on a journey to provide quality training on becoming self-sufficient in the world of food. His parents taught Markus that growing your own food and learning to forage is of utmost importance. Staying away from additives and preservatives is Markus’ main goal throughout Earth, Food, and Fire. And to educate everyone that preparing delectable fare from scratch is easier than one thought.
Earth, Food, and Fire breaks down beautifully into subsections for gardening, growing, and foraging as well as a full recipe index divided into multiple useful categories. With spring here, Chef Markus’ ideas on how to plan and grow a salad garden is a must read! Instead of running to the market for greens, succession planting will keep you eating forever when you continue to plant every two weeks. We learned so much so far from Markus Mueller that we feel confident to survive a week in the forest, finding our own nutrition!
32. Photos & Food
Nelson and Liz love their two boys, food, and photography! Add in their love of their Portuguese roots, from there, Photos & Food was born. Nelson has been cooking and messing around in the kitchen forever. Liz, after the kids grew, decided to take up photography again due to her love of the subject from her high school days. They wish for practical and realistic recipes for all to try. Everything from main meals to desserts are covered by these two with a flair of Portugal always in there somewhere!
The photos in Photos & Food are absolutely gorgeous! Liz has really shown her creative talent and ability when photographing food. The last blog we read, and saw in beautiful detail, was about the tomahawk steak on a pellet grill; which made us get creative and use our Ooni - 3 Portable Wood-Fired Oven with Stone Baking Board and give it a try: Delicious! And for those who know or want to learn what a wonderful country for cuisine Portugal is, well you are in luck with Nelson’s plethora of recipes from the region.
33. Toronto Food Blog
Hailing from the great city of Toronto, Ashley Allison has been to the best and worst restaurants her city has to offer. No style of cuisine, from street to chic, stops Ashley’s passion to pursue her home city’s cornucopia a food choices. Her list of favourites goes on and on, with endless options of cuisines from throughout The Six.
What sets Toronto Food Blog and Ashley apart from others is her dedication. Finding all variants of cuisine and listing them alphabetically takes pure devotion. Ashley has written in the Huffington Post and Amex, and was part of the #lunchunder10bucks movement with her dear friend John Prine who recently unfortunately passed away recently…Ashley is Toronto and all things within!
34. xiaoEats
Xiao studied at the University of Toronto for Engineering for four years. During this time, Xiao realized a blog dedicated to Asian cuisine and the city of Toronto was needed for all to read. Xiao is just a foodie, not involved in the “industry”, so she is an excellent unbiased review for all cuisines and scenes around Toronto. Breakfast, sweets, coffee, to Chinese food can be read and seen through the eyes of Xiao.
xiaoEats is a great blog for many reasons. Our primary reason we love Xiao is her engineering ability is demonstrated via her “Eats” page. It is a usable spreadsheet to find exactly what you are looking for in the food world! The name, address, and rating are all there in a beautiful database. Xiao’s “Travel” section is the same! Simply look up what region of the world you wish to see through Xiao and read away instantaneously about her wonderful travels.
These 34 Canadian food bloggers know their stomachs. From local restaurant reviews to adventures in their own kitchens, these foodies know their stomachs and feed themselves through a growing community of people who love to share their passion for food.
