Bannock for Breakfast
Bannock is one of Christie Ellinger’s favourite recipes to make when camping because the ingredients are simple, it packs small, and is easy to switch up with different additions like cheese or...
Clean Food Staples You Should Have Around At All Times
Today I’m starting the 21-day Hot Detox with Julie Daniluk. All I needed was some rolled quinoa flakes and my organic fruits & vegetables. Everything else I already had on...
Eating Clean Without Breaking The Bank
One of the big concerns when people consider eating clean or eating healthier is cost. Grocery prices have gone up significantly in the past few years, especially for fresh fruit...
Kombucha
Kombucha. It is sold next to sport drinks in the grocery store and I’ve heard its mixture has medicinal qualities, is a probiotic, and contains sugar, alcohol, and scoby. When...
Backyard BBQ Disasters
I will never forget the night my friend’s dad lost his eyebrows. I was eight or nine so the details were a bit confusing at the time – it was raining...
7 Tips to Successfully Start from Seed
It is my pleasure to introduce you to Don, the Snarky Gardener. Professionally he’s a software developer but spends his spare time producing food at Snarky Acres, his rented .91...
Why does this taste like chicken?
I betcha you’ve said the words “this tastes like chicken.” I know I have! We ordered the obligatory, novelty appetizer while on a family vacation in Florida – alligator tail. It...
Chicken Soup for your Bones
A compliment that I cherish greatly is that my husband thought my chicken soup tasted like his Grandmother’s. She was an immigrant from Europe and, although I never met her,...
Gluten Free flour mix
It’s been ages since I’ve posted. A variety of things – challenges with work-life balance primarily. It’s lead to some unfortunate health issues and a lack of posting. One of...
Recipe Jar – ideas when you can’t think it through
I love Pinterest, enough so that my husband knows what it is, lol. I found this fantastic idea of a recipe jar: solving the whole dinner dilema on Life in...