food, photography and my creative life
It’s time to talk about salad – a really big salad. Not bird-like or dainty or a few pieces of lettuces. No – we’re talking about a hearty salad full of barley and spicy toasted walnuts with feta and blackberries, vivid crisp asparagus and bright, juicy peaches. A peach barley salad that is worthy of being called a meal! It’s been a while since I’ve posted
Simplicity on a plate comes in the form of grilled nectarines or peaches with crumbled feta and sprigs of mint. Arranged neatly on a plate it’s quick, simple and delicious. I feel like summer disappeared and I missed it somehow. I did not buy flats of blueberries or bags of fresh, local peaches. I left half my raspberries hanging on the vine after becoming overwhelmed
When I was small, every summer we would head up to the Okanagan Valley to visit my Grandma in her little house near Okanagan Lake in a sleepy little town called Kelowna. I remember two things very clearly from those visits. The first was the candies in the jar on my Grandma’s coffee table… those candies in that jar have turned into inspiration for a
Disclosure notice: I was provided with free product by Castello cheese for the purpose of writing this post. All opinions stated within are my own. It’s really not a secret around here that I have a weakness for cheese. Any kind of cheese. Despite being lactose intolerant, I add it to everything. It just makes stuff better. And that’s what those little Lactaid pills are
I think… I hope… that honest to goodness spring has arrived here on the west coast. I don’t want to get carried away and cause too much fuss in case it scares it off… but it’s actually possible we may get summer like temperatures this weekend! What better way to kick it off than to start experimenting with salads? Salads are great because the possibilities
Before I even start this post let me just say that I really don’t like any of the photos I took of it. Nothing is right with any of them. I don’t like the light, I don’t like the composition, I don’t like the focus. So, having said that, the three here represent the best of the 47 I took. The flip side of that
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