Recipe for your best beach body
What’s your favourite childhood memory of summer? There’s a good chance that a beach or lake is part of that memory: Lazy days of swimming, building sandcastles, floating in a tube, or lounging...
Healthy eating
Foodie Friday: Brighten up your plate with local fruits and veggies!
Enjoying BC-grown produce I’m always amazed at the selection of local fruits and vegetables in our grocery stores, farmers’ markets, and gardens throughout the summer months! Enjoying BC-gro...
Foodie Friday: Beat the heat - take the cooking outdoors!
Southern United States cooking I have yet to travel to the southern United States, but it is definitely on my list of top 10 places I’d like to visit. My husband’s grandparents are American and...
Foodie Friday: You DO win friends with salad
Not just any salad... All right, so for anyone who grew up in the ‘90s, I’m sure you remember that Simpsons episode where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and then her dad Homer, brother Bart, and mot...
Foodie Friday: Dealing with food hypersensitivities
Food allergies and food intolerances Many people avoid a food due to a food hypersensitivity (this includes both food allergies and food intolerances). I am one of those people and maybe ...
Foodie Friday: More than just a pot of soup
Food, a great connector of culture, relationships and family As kids, my sister and I spent many a summer day at my grandparents’ house in East Vancouver. We did all sorts of fun things – I rem...
Foodie Friday: Celebrating dads in the kitchen
He’s not shy to get in the kitchen With Father’s Day coming up this weekend, I got thinking about the things that I appreciate about my husband (and dad to my two daughters). One of the th...
