During the Summer I love to experiment with light, bright, fresh flavours! The winter is a great time for warm, hearty, savoury meals but with the hot weather that comes with Summer I definitely tend to lighten things up! In our city there’s a little market called Sunterra and they have a fantastic deli with
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Light & Healthy Roasted Potato Salad
A Summer BBQ is never complete without a yummy potato salad, am I right?! I love that potato salad can be made in so many tasty ways! Unfortunately, traditional potato salad can be a little on the heavy side and not-so-waistline-friendly. When one of my clients recently requested a healthier potato salad recipe I went straight
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Lightened Up Creamy Cucumber Kale Salad
Happy Sunday! Man, I love weekends! Correction: I love SUMMER weekends! This weekend my Hubster and I went to Jasper (for the second weekend in a row actually!) to enjoy in the splendour that is The Rocky Mountains! We chose to camp this weekend, and although a little chilly at night, it’s been splendid.
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NITK’s TAKE ON THE “500 SALAD”
First things first! Happy Easter, I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend! I thought about posting something Easter inspired today but then I thought… that’s likely what everyone else is doing so I’m going to go against the grain and do something different… here goes! There’s this salad, it’s called the “500 Salad” from a
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Coconut & Lemongrass Raw Vegetable Salad
When I was 20 I had my first real travel experience. Yes, I’d been to Disneyland and different areas in Canada before then, but I had never travelled overseas. This first big trip changed me forever. I backpacked through Thailand. Not only did it give me the travel bug and begin series of backpacking trips
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Massaged Red Kale & Lox Nicoise Salad
Today we are off to Hawaii!! I can’t wait to get my toes in the sand! The hubby and I have some fun things planned for our trip that I’m excited to share with you along the way! I’ll be doing travel posts intermittently for the next couple weeks and there will be lots of
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Avo-Chicken Salad Bell Pepper Boats
What do you do when you have only 5 minutes to make lunch and have leftover chicken breast in the fridge?? You make Bell Pepper Boats stuffed with Avocado Chicken Salad! Or… Avo Chicken Salad Bell Pepper Boats! I was rushing out the door the other day to get to work for my first client and
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Sesame Chia Crusted Tuna Poke
You know when you spend an hour writing a wonderful post to go along with a delicious and awesome recipe and then you accidentally press something and it disappears and to much of your clicking, panicking, and dismay – it just doesn’t come back? Yeah, that just happened. Drat. (a nice version of the actual
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Creamy Tahini Kale Salad with Pomegranate
Today we have one of my fave bloggers Deryn, from Running on Real Food here to share a delicious, vegan recipe! Tahini, Kale, Pomegranate… ummm… yes, yes, yes please! Take it away Deryn! “I’m so happy to be here today on one of my favourite blogs, Nutritionist in the Kitch! Christal is such an inspiration