A PR company recently contacted me about trying McCain’s Harvest Splendour Medleys, frozen potato side dishes that can be made in less than half an hour. As I am a very busy person who prefers to make her meals as easily and quickly as possible, I jumped the chance to try the products out. […]
One of my favourite Yonge and Bloor area restaurants is Wish Restaurant on Charles, just east of Yonge. Known for a while as The Black Skirt, Wish offers delicious lunch and dinner choices as well as a weekend brunch and is definitely a place to go if you want to get away from the hustle […]
Petite Fashion Challenge #14 is: Holiday Emergency – Style your travel outfit into a special evening look using whatever you carry in your purse and anything else immediately at hand, hosted by Couture Coco. If I check in luggage, I either pack a carry-on with two changes of clothing plus emergency underwear and cosmetics, just […]
Rainbow trout (also known as Steelhead trout) is a beautiful, tasty North American fish related to salmon. It is found in fresh water lakes and rivers, as well as in the Pacific Ocean. Unlike its farmed counterparts, wild-caught rainbow trout has a pinky-orange colour (more orange than the pink farmed stuff) and a nutty flavour […]
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away, and for those of us who’re staying in, there’s no reason why you can’t celebrate, even if you don’t have a date! Forget take-out or ice cream! Love yourself and treat yourself to a nice, quick healthy meal. This one pot dinner with salmon, bulgur and spinach […]
Elaine (Toronto Beauty Reviews), Loretta (Petite in the City), Jessy (The Little Dust Princess) and I (Shorty Stories and DelectablyChic!) got together last night for Winterlicious, the winter edition of the twice-yearly “Licious” event here in Toronto. This was a long over-due get-together as we had originally planned something before the holidays. In fact, other […]
Almost every year since I was about six or seven, my family would take a trip up to the CN Tower‘s revolving restaurant for our big Lunar New Year Meal. My family sees it as a “spin of luck and good fortune” and the only years we did not go up were when the restaurant […]
How has your New Year’s diet been going so far? If you’re anything like me, a successful healthy-eating regimen requires variety and flavour. My jerk pork chilli is inexpensive to make, low in fat, and high in fibre and protein. Best of all, it combines zesty Caribbean flavours in a new and inspired way. As […]
There’s a lot of talk on how the Duchess of Cambridge dresses more like “everyday women” and that her wardrobe is “more affordable.” However, a recent blog post from the Toronto Star says that the cost of clothes she wore for her eight day trip to North America was around $25,000. That got me thinking […]
I was contacted by the PR company who works with Blue Dragon, a company that makes a series of delicious stir-fry and other Asian-inspired sauces before the holidays. As I was going away, I asked that they hold of sending me anything until I returned. Last week, they sent me a huge box containing not […]
