I have complicated feelings towards brunch, and I believe they date back to 1998-2002 in Waterloo, Ontario and a little joint called Mel’s Diner. Mel’s was the ideal place to feed your hangover on Sunday morning and for $2.99 you got a greasy plate of bacon or sausage, toast, eggs and homefries (or Mel’s......

  What’s that you say? Cinco de Mayo was last week? I know, I know. I just didn’t really have time and/or energy to plan a feast like last year, so instead I just made myself a few little Mexican-inspired snacks throughout the day as I worked on some spring cleaning projects around the house......

Updated with a new picture June 29, 2015 My friend Kathleen is a pretty amazing person overall, but especially in the kitchen. She works a full-time job and still manages to make wholesome nutritious meals for her family (husband and almost 2 year old daughter) every night. On Sundays she kicks it old school and......

Every once in a while I like to bust out my waffle iron for a lazy Sunday morning treat. I wanted a waffle maker for the longest time, and then my Mom’s best friend gave me one for Christmas! Amazing! It’s been a bit of trial and error to find a good recipe, and this......

When you invite people over at 5am to watch the Royal Wedding, you better provide some good eats to make the visit worthwhile. Yes, I am one of those people who booked April 29th off work way back in November when Prince William & Kate’s wedding date was announced. My Mom, her friend Janet, and......

It’s a raspberry round-up y’all! I seem to have really missed the window for raspberries this summer – these seasonal fruits give me a little bit of stress, to be honest. When I went to the farmer’s market about a month ago, they were everywhere, but last week, not a raspberry in sight. I really......

This was my second summer going strawberry picking in Alexis’ in-laws backyard. I basically show up with my tupperware containers, get down on all fours and crawl through their little strawberry patch and go nuts picking Aletta’s organic strawberries (she doesn’t use any pesticides in their garden). Just one of these little berries has more juicy strawberry......

  Last year was my first time baking with rhubarb, and to say I was obsessed was an understatement. To that point, I had only had rhubarb in lackluster store-bought strawberry rhubarb pies, but for some reason, I just became totally fixated on it last spring. I think I made almost every single rhubarb or strawberry-rhubarb recipe on smitten......

The first stage of my Elimination Challenge is over! Two weeks of pure, whole eating are behind me, and now we move on to the re-introduction phase. There is a particular order and a few rules to follow when re-introducing foods, and the heavy hitters are first up: Wheat, Dairy, Eggs. You basically try to eat something from your designated re-introduction food group at......

  Today I hit the wall. The novelty of the Elimination Challenge has definitely worn off. I felt grumpy, tired, and very sad about how I would be spending Pancake Tuesday.  I thought about how there would be no butter slathered, nor maple syrup poured over my pancakes and it almost brought a tear to......