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Salted. Caramel. Oats. You like the sound of that? Oh yes you do. Having dessert(ish) foods for breakfast is what life is all about. Seriously, if you haven't tried the Creamy Chocolate Oatmeal  that I posted some time ago, get on it, NOW! So next up is this sinfully indulgent beast of a breakfast that'll leave you fully satisfied and ready to take on a new day. This recipe owes its sweetness to date paste, or date caramel as I prefer to call it (see below). I make mine by mashing a few soft dates with a fork but this may not be so easy if you don't have the right kind of dates. The ones I'm talking about here can be seen above; soft, un-pitted ones that are super easy to peel and have a melt-in-your-mouth consistency. If you can't find these where you live, soaking a few of the drier, pre-pitted dates overnight would probably work as well. Date Caramel The wonderful, caramel-y flavour comes from the amazing Organic Burst Maca Powder that I've been putting in e...

Well, this week did not go as planned!  On Monday, I awoke feeling rested, well, and ready to start the week. I was even up early, so I sipped on a cup of Dunkin Donuts bakery flavored coffee and watched a few episodes of Forensic Files.  When I got up to get ready for work, I made sure my hair was extra pretty for the day so I could take a picture of my new highlights. I went super dark back in January, and I absolutely love(d) it; but it faded so fast-- as dark usually does with my hair. I do not want to keep darkening it thus I decided to go with highlights and start the process of going back blonde. Around 10 AM, I started getting really nauseous. I endured some pretty rough side effects from a medicine I am on, over the weekend, but I thought that was over, so I was unsure why I was feeling so bad. Ten minutes after I started feeling bad, I threw up (TMI? Oh well). Afterwards, I felt better so I thought it was still just a side effects since I had been feeling bad over th...

I had a very nice email recently from a reader seeking advice. My favourite kind of reader email, really - actually asking my opinion. It gives me licence to take a deep breath and just go on and on and on about what I think, which is the state in which I am happiest, as long-time readers of this blog will know. Anyway the email went "Shall I take my 2 year old on a 7 hour flight to Montreal?" And my answer, which ran to several hundred words, was: "No." I guessed that if she was even asking me, she was really looking for a "no" answer anyway, she just wanted it validated by a dispassionate third party. As I was writing my reply to her, hammering away at my keyboard (I do not type in a tapetty tappetty tap way, I HAMMMER THE FUCKING KEYS LIKE THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING BAD - I always used to get complaints at work about it) some things became clear to me. I ended up writing this paragraph: " I’ve always felt like I had my whole life up until having kids...

It doesn't get any easier using a crock pot and only 3 i ngredient to make this chicken taco recipe.  We love Mexican food and this chicken is great for tacos, nachos and even on a salad. 2 lbs chicken breasts (if frozen, make sure they are thawed)  1 packet taco seasoning 16oz jar salsa (I like to use Medium Restaurant Style Tomtits Salsa, it's thick and flavorful) Taco toppings: tomato, lettuce, avocado , cheese, sour cream, cilantro, etc Directions:  Sprinkle chicken breast on all sides with taco seasoning.   Lay breasts in bottom of crock pot  then pour in salsa.  Cook on low for 4 hours, or high for 2 hours, or until chicken breasts are tender. Shred chicken and mix with some or all of the cooking liquid and continue to cook for another 15-20 minutes. Serve on taco shells or tortillas with all your favorite toppings. Serves 6-8

This was my first attempt at making baked oatmeal and if I had known how good this was I would of been making it all winter long!  I don't usually eat oatmeal once the spring weather appears but this oatmeal will continue to make an appearance.  I really like that it can be made the night before and baked in the morning.  The nuts rise to the top for a crispy topping with the creamy oats underneath and the sweet blueberries throughout.  If there are any leftovers it warms up wonderfully in the microwave. I found this great recipe on  Alexandra Cooks blog .  Check out her blog.      I'm looking forward to making this again.  I want to try it with dried cherries and pecans or apples and walnuts but this blueberry and walnut combo is a keeper.      Ingredients: 2 cups 2% or whole milk 1/3 cup PURE maple syrup (don't use flavored maple pancake syrup) 1 large egg 3 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled slightly 2 teas...

Now that my kids are set square on the path of growing up, we are none of us stuck in a non-speaking, non-walking hell, no-one is pregnant, no-one is postpartum, I can feel myself regressing, going backwards, getting younger. When you have a baby you explode outwards. Sometimes quite literally. But also metaphorically. All your stuff  explodes outwards. Your neuroses, your anxieties, your life, your everything goes KAPOW out into the world. Everyone talks about you and what you are doing. Everyone compares notes going "She's really freaking out," or "She's really bossing it," or "She's just so relaxed!" or "She's just SO uptight." None of it is complimentary - not really. It's all a total diss. Even if you are doing well, everyone with more or older kids will look at each other and transmit via ESP those awful, awful words that we have all thought: "You just fucking wait." Yes it's all fine now but wait until you...

It's Monday morning, I am up bright and early to get a blog post written before I get ready for a great week of work. (Is that a good way to look at each week or week?) This weekend was so fun; I did not want it to end. Despite feeling some really bad side effects from my new medicine on Friday evening and Saturday, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  Friday, this is how I graced everyone with my presence at work... It is suffice to say that someone definitely needed some highlights and a trim. My dark hair, despite all the protectant my stylist put on there, faded fast! I guess that shows how I am meant to be blonde, right?! I think so, thus plans were made.  After work, I came straight home to lay down for a little while. Nausea and a migraine were were taking over my body, so I napped on and off. Around 7 o'clock, Johnathan and I were tired of laying around so we decided to go to a movie to at least get some fresh air.  It was Friday the 13th and raining, so a scary movie (T...

Happy pi(e) day! I always love to celebrate otherwise insignificant days that have somehow come to revolve around food. There is National Cinnamon Roll Day (which is kind of a Swedish thing), Mardi Gras, several pancake days and so on. This day in particular kind is so geeky and amazing at the same time that you just can't help but loving it.  I pondered long on which pie to make. There was an idea of making it a banoffee-thingy lurking somewhere inside my mind, and vegan key lime pie had a certain appeal to it as well. As I was brainstorming, I kind of ran out of time. So what better way to save the day than to whip up an extraordinarily simple crumble pie! All you need is frozen or fresh berries and a couple of pantry staples and you're all set and ready to go! Before going in the oven Now, I usually make sure to test my recipes more than once before posting them on here but as there is so little that could possibly go wrong with this, I'll share this recipe before pi(e)...

It has been a while, little blog of mine. Is anyone still here? I do not deserve for you to be; but if you are, thank you so much for stopping by and still checking in to see if I have written a new post.  To help put incorrect assumptions and rumors to rest about what is going on with me and my life, I wanted to finally share an update. This will probably be quite a long post -- most of mine usually are as I love to write, so bare with me while I spill out an abundance of words to try and articulate what has been going on in my life over the past several months.  First, a picture of the sunrise from my office this morning. It was absolutely beautiful! I have wanted to write a post updating happenings going on in my life for a while now, but honestly, I have been exhausted. Life for me, as it usually is, has been nonstop; even more so than normal. Because of that, I kept pushing new blog posts back.  I receive comments and messages regularly from my friends and readers as...