Tour a lentil farm + Bacon, Lentil & Tomato (BLT) Salad
The wide variety of food produced in this vast country has enchanted me ever since I was little. As a wee one alongside my older brother, I slung a fishing line over the side of a canoe…
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Bloody Caesar Shrimp Salad for Canada Day
From coast to coast, Canadians are making plans to celebrate our national holiday on July 1st, be it by watching the Snowbirds fly over Parliament Hill, marching in a parade, or making merry while poolside with…
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Spinach Salad with Grilled Strawberries, Asparagus and Walnuts
One warm evening after dinner last week, we found the first wild strawberries ripening in our small patch out by the garden. Clara, barefoot and hatless as usual, parted the thick leaves with her small hands…
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Eat Seasonal: Tangy Quinoa Spring Salad Cups
There’s a sunny spot on my bedroom dresser on the second floor of my house and I’m growing two flats of seedlings in its warmth. If it wasn’t for the perky tomato shoots and the…
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Citrus Salad with Honey-Cinnamon Syrup
These days, the emails are flying thick and fast between my friends and family as we attempt to straighten out our plans for Easter. Although it looks more like Christmas outside on the homestead, we…
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Date Night In: Carrot Salad with Cilantro & Cinnamon
These are the days I feel most like hibernating. It’s February during a cold snap, and just the walk around my car to brush off the snow leaves me chattering under my layers. It takes…
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Returning home and Tomato Farro Salad
I‘ve returned from a week of travel on Canada’s West Coast and have found myself surprisingly short on words. Could I be talked out? It’s entirely possible. First there were two short days on my…
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Crunchy Thai Noodle Salad with Peanut Dressing
If you’re starting to plan for your Labor Day long weekend barbecue (it’s coming up!), you might want to add this mega-salad to the menu. I created it recently for the KitchenAid Canada blog, United…
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Tomato Nasturtium Salad with Dates and Pistachios
Another salad. I know. But after being on the road, it’s all I want to eat when I come home. Yesterday Clara and I headed out to the garden first thing to get inspired for…
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Middle Eastern Taco Salad with Roasted Chickpeas, Tangy Avocado Dressing
Last Saturday I pulled together a salad for a barbecue with bits and bites of ingredients I had on hand – and it turned out to be one of the best dishes I have enjoyed…
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Black Bean and Farro Salad with Cumin-Lime Vinaigrette
With a long weekend quickly approaching, my mind has been on summer and everything that comes with it: warm weather, cold drinks, and plenty of cookouts. I love this time of year because we do so…
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Cobb Salad Sandwich with Avocado Spread
Easter is right around the corner, and, for my family, that means there’s bound to be leftover ham and boiled eggs. I rarely want to eat leftovers as-is, so I always try to find a…
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Apricot Basil Chicken Salad
Chicken salad was once a food I refused to eat. I found it too mayonnaise-y and bland for my tastes, but that at all changed when I ate the chicken salad at a restaurant near…
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Two make-ahead mason jar salads {for winter}
It’s back to school and work this week, with a portable lunch line-up for us all: salads in jars. Last spring I sliced radishes and shelled peas for a weeks worth of jarred salads. Today’s…
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Apple Pomegranate Kale Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
I‘ve been mourning the lack of produce at the farmers market in the last couple weeks. It seems as if overnight the overflowing stalls of tomatoes and carrots disappeared, packing up their tables and baskets…
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Roasted cabbage salad with brown butter croutons
If there is one essential ingredient that I have easy access to here in Montreal, it would have to be the baguette. Yep, the bagels are renowned, the croissants swoon-worthy, but I definitely sleep better…
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Roasted Beet and Blueberry Salad to embrace the end of summer
Yes, I did indeed just use “embrace” and “end of summer” together. You see, the way I see it, June is for the planning, July the languishing, and August the embrace at the end. Think…
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Roasted Veggie Pasta Salad with a Balsamic Vinaigrette
Please welcome Hanna from Honey & Huckleberries as my guest poster today sharing her favorite picnic supper. Summer has come, with all it’s sunshine, long days, and heat. Here in the Kootenays, summer days are…
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How to build a grilled green bean salad with ingredients you already have
Sometimes I don’t always see how ingredients can come together for a finished dish and, like everyone, I have my moments where I open the refrigerator and wonder what on earth there is to eat…
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Crunch-crunch: A week of (make ahead) spring salads in jars
Rainy conditions and toe-tingling cool temperatures dissuaded any notions I had of going out this past weekend. Instead I donned Danny’s hoodie for an extra layer of warmth, and flew about the place, tackling my…
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Build-a-salad bar for kids and how my five-year-old made dinner
My Mother’s Day was lovely and relaxing, but the week leading up to it was a trying one, and my main support system, Danny, was traveling for work. We’ve all had those days as parents…
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Avocado Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps with Bacon (paleo, dairy-free)
Was your Easter lovely? I hope it was. And now it is April? Gracious, I’m so ready for spring, thank you. Today’s post is going to be quick. I’ve got the family around on this…
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Winter Salad Inspiration {recipe: Caesar Wedge Salad with Bacon}
Before kale was cool, before it was made into cheesy chips or added to smoothies, it grew in my mother’s garden when I was a child. This curly-leafed winter green lived under the snow all…
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A Christmas salad of winter greens & seasonal fruit
It’s funny how this salad came to be: a rough chop of leftover greens from the crisper drawer and a few odd bits of scrounged fruit. It wasn’t until I had everything assembled on my…
