We’re in trauma mode over here after family visiting from Australia had to go back to said land down under. My kids got deeply attached to these “new” cousins, and, while I wisely distracted them with fun visits to other cousins immediately following the departure, I neglected to anticipate the sadness that comes with the […]
Archives for July 2014
Monday Moments: Boys Will Be Boys?
My youngest is only my youngest, Lord willing, for one more month, and I’m trying to make sure I spend the time enjoying all his craziness while working on toning down his increasingly screechy and demanding “MOOOOoooom!” when he wants something. Now if I could just manage to take less-blurry pictures to commemorate this stage, […]
Zucchini Muffins
You can find zucchini in just about everything right now, from cookies and cakes to lasagnas and salads. While I applaud the use of zucchini in just about everything, the most important recipes are still the classics. I don’t care how good a spiralized pickled dehydrated quinoa zucchini salad you can make and call it […]
Elevated Toast: Bruschetta Round-Up
A long loaf of baguette is one thing I virtually always have in my freezer for last minute guests. Not because I want to hand them a long loaf and call it hospitality, but because that long loaf can be sliced up and transformed into approximately three hundred and forty seven different appetizers, or it […]
Monday Moments: Boys’ Day Out
While Carl and Gemma were away in Saskatoon having the time of their lives (seriously, they were), I figured we better have some fun back in our B.C. oven too. My iron has been kicking in like nobody’s business since I self-diagnosed a need to triple the recommended dose, and my energy levels are soaring […]
Mom’s Recipes: Tomato Basil Chicken Casserole
It’s been too long since I posted a must-make dinner recipe, hasn’t it? It could be because I don’t like to cook actual dinners when the weather gets hot, or because my baby is getting so big it is making my stomach too small to care much about whole meals and increasing my personal body heat […]
Strawberry Oat Bars (with Strawberry Chia Jam)
While I’m still just as obsessed with chocolate as ever, I’m eating berries in at least equal amounts while the gettin’s good. But fresh berries don’t last forever, and sometimes you need to use a bunch quickly or risk crossing that fine line between sooooo juicy and sweet and ewwww gross my finger just went […]
Monday Moments: Helping Hands
This sweet little man, as much as I sometimes fear he’s a bit too attached to his mama (but then, who wouldn’t be ;)), is the world’s best little helper. At 3 years old, he’s reasonably proficient at everything from vacuuming to sorting and folding laundry to emptying the dishwasher. He spends his days asking if there’s anything […]
Mom’s Recipes: Strawberry Galette
Carl and Gemma are road-tripping to Saskatoon this weekend and it’s weiiiird having my little girl so far away! But the boys and I are making the best of it by remembering how great it is not to be driving for 16 hours, and by enjoying super easy meals, movies for hot afternoons, and naps […]
Teriyaki Chicken Spring Rolls
We eat a lot of pasta, fajitas, pizza, and meat and potato meals around here. Sometimes it’s good to change things up a little, and these little spring rolls were a major hit in the change-it-up department. This filling is fantastic in regular spring roll wrappers, in wonton cups, or wrapped in lettuce leaves. I […]
Waiting for Words
Lately I’m running out of words. It took me a bit to realize why I felt strange, why I just couldn’t shake an uncomfortable sense of not feeling quite like myself. Getting through the day, doing the day to day things that need to be done – these things all still happen, and don’t seem particularly draining. […]
Homemade Caramel Corn
It’s funny how you can be married to someone for quite awhile and not really know them. Carl and I have had a couple informative conversations lately. You’d think my lack of athleticism or our significant height differential would throw him off more, but no, it’s really just my taste in food. Me: I just love […]