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Recipe: Cilantro-Sriracha Dressing
As promised! Cilantro-Sriracha Dressing to accompany your Southwestern Salad. This dressing is full of flavour and tastes amazing! Ingredients: a bunch of cilantro 1 tablespoon of sriracha 500g of coconut Greek yogurt a lime 1 tablespoon of omega oil First – wash your cilantro. Why Sriracha? It packs so much flavour and heat, how do you not love it? With the California factory shutting down, you may need to find some quickly and stock up. A little sriracha story. I was working with Sam one…
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Recipe: Southwestern Salad
Southwestern salad time! This is one of my favourite salads to make. It’s full of colour (and you should always eat a rainbow!), it’s hearty, and it tastes delightful. Ingredients 2 avocados 1 orange pepper 2 cups of corn 2.5 cups of black beans 2 roma tomatoes 3 cups of leaf lettuce Cilantro-Sriracha dressing…try it! First – wash and chop the lettuce into small pieces. Next, de-seed the tomatoes (use a spoon to clean out the juicy part) and dice. Cut the orange pepper and…
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Project: Button Art
Buttons! I first fell in love with buttons when I was planning our wedding. Flowers really aren’t our thing – yes, they are beautiful, but they die very quickly. I was browsing though the Real Simple Wedding magazine back in 2010 and a button boutonniere caught my eye. Upon visiting the Etsy shop who made the delightful ornament, I realize that we would have button bouquets and boutonnieres. Our wedding colours were purple, black, white, and grey/silver. Thus…I had to buy a lot of buttons!…
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Sewing: Dish Towels and Dish Cloths
Purple! Yes…purple dish towels and purple dish cloths. This project was inspired by someone’s love of purple – and their new home. With a birthday arriving next week, I though, well, what better way to send them something not so matchy-matchy, yet practical?? Okay…a little match-matchy. A month or two ago I made dish cloths for our home, in a very neutral colour. This time I decided to make matching dish towels. Dish Towels and Dish Cloths The cloths measure 11×11 and the towel measures…
