Welcoming my 25th Year

Welcoming my 25th Year

I’ve been 25 for 6 days. I don’t know what I was expecting, but thankfully, I feel just the same. The older you get, the wiser you are, right? As I explained on Tuesday, I like to welcome each of my birthdays with a list of  goals that I hope to accomplish for the upcoming…

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Sunflower Cream Salad with Sweet Taters + Dill Chicks

Sunflower Cream Salad with Sweet Taters + Dill Chicks

Happy Friday 13th! Good things always happen to me on Friday 13th, so I’m pretty excited to see what flourishes today! ————————————– There are a couple of requirements that a salad needs to have in order for me to want to eat it: a good [homemade] salad dressing. lots of spices and flavor. a vast…

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Pumpkin Raspberry Buckwheat Bake

Pumpkin Raspberry Buckwheat Bake

Ashley has been whipping up buckwheat bakes for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until she made a pumpkin version, that I knew I had to give the buckwheat bake a try. One bite and I was in love. <3 I’ve been making these in batches of 2 or 3, popping them in…

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Baked French Onion Hummus

Baked French Onion Hummus

Thanks for all of the birthday wishes yesterday! You are such a great bunch! My birthday was filled with great things… I went out for lunch at the Coup with a couple of amazing ladies from the office, had an amazing salad with tofu, chickpeas, and sprouts, received my free coconut oil, courtesy of Averie’s…

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Layered Maple Oat n’ Apple Dessert Jars

Layered Maple Oat n’ Apple Dessert Jars

Before we get to this drool-worthy recipe… guess what? Today is my 25th birthday! To be honest though, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to the big 2-5. In preparation for the big day… I decided to look back over the last 6 years to remind myself of what I’ve accomplished, I ran my first 10km…

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10km Forzani Mother’s Day Race Recap

10km Forzani Mother’s Day Race Recap

What a race! Minus the rain, it was awesome! I couldn’t believe the sheer amount of people… or, how cold it was.     We waited forever to start, so I played around with my Garmin. Since this was my first 10km, my goal was to keep my pace and finish. I just wanted to…

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Steph’s Online Bake Sale

Steph’s Online Bake Sale

As many of you know, my Dad battled with Leukemia in 2009. According to Wikipedia, Leukemia (from the Greek leukos – white, and haima – blood) is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of white blood cells. Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of…

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Photography 101: Overview

Photography 101: Overview

So many images, good eats, and many lessons learned along the way. Since sharing my thoughts on finding inspiration from other photography last week, a bunch of you asked me to write a photography post. Eak, me? I am by no means a professional, but I’ll try to share the lessons I’ve learned along the…

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Spicy Mango Rice Bowl with Tofu (or chicken)

Spicy Mango Rice Bowl with Tofu (or chicken)

I’ve been enjoying these rice bowls in my lunch all week, but haven’t had the chance to share the recipe with you. I blame homemade yogurt, preparing for my race, and berries n’ cream parfaits. Do you forgive me? My eats this week have been marvelous. No complaints are coming from this stomach, that’s for…

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Berries ‘n Cream Parfaits + Homemade Coconut Yogurt

Berries ‘n Cream Parfaits + Homemade Coconut Yogurt

I don’t generally toot my own horn, but I have to say I was pretty proud of myself when I made this. Not because of the pretty parfait [although holy moly are these babies delicious], but because I made my own yogurt. Homemade yogurt. How cool is that? And… it was easy! I used to…

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