Plant-Forward Living with Rebecca Coleman
Inspiration. It comes from the strangest places. Last weekend, I got invited to attend Salt Spring in the City, a kind of trade show at Heritage Hall, where artisans from Salt Spring Island brought their wares to Vancouver. There was wine, there was cider, there …
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I really am trying very hard to eat healthier. Not that I was eating all junk food all the time before… but what I’m learning about myself is that I need to plan my week better, and basically make it stupid easy for me to …
Last year, I watched the documentary Just Eat it. Jen and Grant are a local couple who decide to make a three-month commitment to not purchase groceries, but rather to scavenge every bit of food. It sounds weird, right? Who would take up dumpster diving …
I was shopping in one of my favourite places the other day, and I had a sudden thought. Would my readers judge me if they knew I shopped here? I was at Sunrise Market. I got introduced to Sunrise many, many years ago while dating …
I’m publishing this on a thursday, because, quite honestly, it’s a bit of a throwback post. With Christmas just past, I made a ton of cookies, and then wrapped them up in decorative bags and gave them to friends as presents. In general, I have …
Kale Chips are a gateway drug. You see, there was a time when my kid wouldn’t have touched kale with 10-foot-pole. Nope. Absolutely would never happen. But then, I made him some Kale Chips. And they were so good, and he liked them so much, …
I am entranced. I just discovered these purple sweet potatoes, and I am in love with their colour. Have you ever seen anything like it in nature? Sure, eggplants, yeah, but they’re only that colour on the outside. These beauties are purple all the way …
How are you guys doing? It’s fall here in Vancouver, and that means buckets of rain. I mean buckets. As I type this, there is a live rainfall warning–they are predicting 100mm in the next 24 hours. I’m a summer girl. If I could live …
This is the story of a girl who went on a hike in her backyard. Last weekend was our Canadian Thanksgiving. I ended up being a rare situation where I had 4 days off in a row with no classes to teach, and because my …
Later this morning, I’ll be co-presenting a workshop with Lorraine Goldberg of Allrecipes.com at the International Food Blogger’s Conference in Seattle. Our presentation is called What to Do After You Hit Publish, and it’s all about how to use social sharing to drive traffic to …