Sugar Snap Pea Salad with Green Goddess Dressing, from No Crumbs Left Cookbook

To say the recent arrival of Teri Turnerโ€™s wonderful new cookbook No Crumbs Left, Recipes for Everyday Food Made Marvelous was highly anticipated by her legion of loyal fans (she calls her โ€œcrumblesโ€) would be a massive understatement. I have been following Teriโ€™s instagram for years. She approaches cooking with the ease and confidence that inspires so many of us. โ€œDonโ€™t be afraid to fail; itโ€™s just foodโ€ is what Teri frequently says. Donโ€™t those words alone empower you to tackle almost anything in your kitchen?

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Winter Salad with Lentils and Herbs with Blood Orange Vinaigrette

I think there is a certain consensus among those of us who are living through Winter right now that citrus fruits are basically the best part about it.  The other features of our winter - air so cold it hurts any exposed skin, shoveling and de-icing all the things all the time, extremities that are always cold even while INDOORS, plus a few other things that make you swear under your breath - I can live without!    

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Peach + Tomato Summer Salad + Taste Canada NEWS!!!

Hiya!  It's been a minute since I posted. How has this month flown by so fast?  Oh I remember now.  It's because I've had my hands full with the girls who are on summer break.  Why even is there a summer vacation?  People who work don't get 2 months off their jobs (I mean other than school-related staff).  Stay-at-home parents don't stop cooking / dishes / laundry / vacuuming / groceries / chauffeuring and all of that for a couple of months every year.  Why do children get 2 months off school?  Isn't school basically their job?  Seems like a good idea to keep their minds sharp all year round.  Maybe next year I will sign the girls up for math camp all summer heh heh. #tigermomgoals

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