this strawberry spinach salad is sooo, sooo good. the strawberries and spinach make it taste really fresh while the candied almonds and strawberry poppy seed dressing sweeten it up just a bit. not to mention it's really pretty and really easy to put together. all you need are strawberries, baby ...
creamy cauliflower soup
i've been a little bit obsessed with soups lately. maybe it's because it's so cold outside and they warm you right up, or maybe it's because they're just so dang good. or maybe it's because they're generally inexpensive to make and after the holidays over-spending, well, it's nice to cut back a ...
free printable calendar :: february 2014
hey all! it's time for the february calendar! i can NOT believe it is february already...wasn't christmas just last week? and now it's valentine's day? man, the days go by fast. so go ahead and print off this calendar, draw a heart around the 14th (or not), and fill up the month with awesome ...
pulled pork sandwiches
growing up in canada we had turkey for both thanksgiving and christmas. keep in mind, though, that those holidays are 2 months apart in the great white north - so it was doable. since moving to the states i've discovered that cooking turkeys 1 month apart means that i am so turkey-ed out by the time ...
chicken & wild rice soup
chicken and wild rice soup. this is one of my faves. it only has a few ingredients, but they're all so healthy (which is great for my new year's resolution...which i'm sure is the same as most other people's!) and even though those ingredients are pretty simple, they offer a huge depth of flavor. i ...
oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe
we've been cooped up inside the last little while. it's winter and it's snowing outside, and i decided way back in december that it was hibernation time. don't get me wrong - we still go out to play in the snow on occasion, but that only lasts for 1/2 hour before we're all frozen. so we bake lots ...
top 13 posts of 2013
2013 was my first full year of blogging. looking back at the posts that i did earlier this past year is a little bit humbling - i'm still nowhere near where i want to be, but i have come a long way! having said that, some of my earlier posts have been some of the most successful this year. here's a ...
free printable calendar :: january 2014
i love january. not because of the snow. no way. i love january because it is a chance at a fresh start - a new beginning. no matter what last year brought, this new year is an opportunity to make it right. i plan on being more organized this year. i plan on not wasting my time on unimportant ...
2014 monthly planner calendars :: free printables
hope everyone had a merry little christmas this year! the past month has been a crazy one for our family - from never-ending doctor's visits to out-of-country weddings and every thing in between, we still managed to pull off a great christmas! while we didn't get a chance to squeeze in every ...
banana chip mint cookies
my mom is a cookie queen. even with 8 kids at home, she always managed to have homemade cookies in our lunches everyday. it made the kids in my class extremely jealous! they would always try to trade their jos louis cakes, or passion flakies for some of my moms cookies. and these cookies - banana ...