What’s for dinner? Otherwise known as the question I ask myself every day in my head as I walk home from work. Something tells me I’m not alone on that one. This is also a question I’m often asked by people who find out that I have a food blog. Unfortunately I think my answer is a […]
This past weekend it rained – like, a lot. I had a bunch of ingredients ready in the fridge for recipe creation, but even with floor-to-ceiling windows in my condo, no amount of white foam board reflectors and Lightroom post-processing was going to create a decent setting for food photography. Luckily, there’s been a really great recipe waiting in […]
This post should really be called Pumpkin Chili Revisited, because it’s not technically a brand new recipe to the blog. Back in 2011 I created a pumpkin chili that was absolutely delicious but looked like a dog’s breakfast in the photos I took of it. My photography skills were lacking at the time, but to […]
With Canadian Thanksgiving now behind us, recently I was having a conversation with friends about meals that are traditions in their families during the holidays. With many of us being from different countries and cultural backgrounds, it was a very mixed bag. Some of these folks follow completely untraditional traditions, with Thanksgiving festivities consisting going out […]
Over the weekend, I made the decision to put away my portable air conditioner for the fall and winter. Earlier this summer, I caved and decided I absolutely NEEEEEEEDED an air conditioning unit because I was waking up in the middle of the night, sweating like I’d just run a marathon. The kind I bought is […]
Ever since I started getting interested in healthy eating and learning to cook in my late teens, most of my learnings have been through experimentation. Back when my family lived in the Middle East, I had no idea what food blogs were and most of the dishes I made were either from cookbooks or recipes […]
Over the weekend I flew to Calgary for the wedding of one of my childhood besties. It was a quick trip, only a 1-hour flight, and all the celebrations were a ton of fun. On Sunday morning my mum and I were up at 6 and on our way to the airport to catch our flights […]
Happy humpday! Today’s actually more like a Thursday for me because tomorrow I’ll be jet setting alllll the way over to Calgary. 1 hour flight = totally not jet setting, but let’s pretend. It’s been over 5 years since I last visited my home province of Alberta, and about 10 since my last trip to […]
If you don’t already LOVE cauliflower, today is the day that I change your mind FOREVER. But first let’s have a quick chat about the weekend (and I’ll show you some nice cauliflower photos as I tell the tale). On Saturday morning I headed up to North Vancouver to run 5 Peaks Mount Seymour. I chose […]
Originally published September 2015, updated September 2017. Let’s talk about lunch. Back in the day when I was a little kiddie, my mum had my sister and I packing our own school lunches. This was an activity we had to do each evening, not in the morning before dashing out the door, or else we risked losing […]
