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Acorn Squash Flower
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7 Useful Tips For The Novice Cook – How To Prepare Physically And Mentally

I get a lot of comments from people saying that they can’t cook or can’t make the dishes they find online or just afraid to try them out because everything looks so complicated. Well, sometimes it’s a bit more complicated but it’s all a matter of how you process the recipe, how you plan for […]

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11 Food Blogs You Need To Follow

As a food blogger, it only makes sense for me to follow other food blogs. Not just because we are an entire (amazing) community, but because when you create something, whether it’s food, art, jewelry or any other thing, you need inspiration. I draw my inspiration from my mom, my friends, my family, my husband, […]

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National BBQ Day and My Grilled Lemon Zucchini

News flash to self, there is such a thing as “National BBQ Day”. Yup, I just learned that a few weeks ago through the Food Bloggers of Canada Website. FBC is working together with Meal Exchange to promote National BBQ Day, how wonderful is that?! You’re probably sitting there starring at the screen thinking “what […]

Mushroom Kit Day 11
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Growing Our Own Mushrooms – What A Cool Experience

  I already went on and on about the amazing Food Bloggers Conference I took part in. Also, I mentioned we all got to take a pretty sweet swag bag home. One of the conference sponsors was Mushrooms.Ca and what they gave us, in my opinion, was so incredible (and food related) that I had […]

Kitchen towel DIY Aprons
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Birthday Party Aprons OR Letting My Inner Crazy Person Loose

When it comes to my children’s birthdays I admit it, I am a bit of a lunatic. Not in the bad sense, in the best sense; for them anyway. I will go out of my way to make any birthday memorable. If it’s the cake, the candle shape, the present, the presentation of it all, […]

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FBC2013 – Food Bloggers of Canada Conference – Been there, Done that, Loved it!

When I entered my “Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies” recipe to the “My Cookies Are The Best” contest with “Manitoba Canola Growers” I didn’t really think I would win. Not that my cookies are not the best, don’t get me wrong, I just figured they are going to have so many entries that my chances are […]

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Green Beans in Garlic and Butter – The perfect solution for a side dish

Having a bag of frozen green beans in the freezer in our house is a must. You can make pies with it, soups, even add to fresh salads but mostly I use it as my go-to side dish when I want something fast and nutritious.

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Cravings – Where do they come from and why now??

Like any other normal human being, sometimes even I have cravings 🙂 You know how you put the kids in bed and you finally have the whole house to yourself and then you feel like you want to nibble on something but not sure what, or maybe during work you feel that if you won’t […]