Green Veggies & Flower Pizza with Pesto and Aparagus

This is year is my first having my own veggie garden so even though I planted all my seeds more than a month ago, I wasn’t really prepared when everything started growing really well. I’ve got pumpkin plants spiraling out of the soil onto the grass, beans that I’ve had to tie up with wrapping…

Raw ‘Pasta’ with Peach & Watermelon Salsa

Is it just me or is this summer going by at warp speed? Good lord it’s a blur. I know it’s sacrilegious to say something like this in Vancouver (because we literally live through rain 9 months of the year) but I’m started to pine for the calmer, cooler days of autumn. Have I mentioned…

How to Peel a Mango like a Boss

After my post on mango pizza, I had a few people ask me how to use a cup to get the mango deliciousness from the skin. Rich is at the cabin this weekend so I couldn’t take a video but I was able to take some awkward photos with one hand while demonstrating this life-changing…

Fruity Mango Pizza

There are a ton of benefits to my job and it seems like I’ve been enjoying more than usual lately! First of all I know about all the sales, deals, and promotions coming up. Which meant that on Friday I got two cases of mangoes for about $12.  That is INSANE. Secondly, I was able…

Fruity Summer Dinner: Fig Salad, Avocado Potato Salad, and Fruity BBQ’d Tofu

It’s a rainy day in Vancouver which made me inspired to make a bright, sunny dinner. I started with a fruity salad with sliced fig, avocado, butter lettuce, white peaches, and nectarine drizzled with a fig vinaigrette. I then felt the need to go big with bright, fruity and summery- partly because I was on a roll and…