Nibbles

Butternut Squash Soup

January 7, 2016

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While for most, this is the unofficial week of salads and green juice, given that many of us over-indulged over the holidays or have resolutions to release weight and get healthy in 2016; I’m not quite ready to give up on warm and comforting flavours and foods.  Probably because Calgary is in the midst of a cold spell, without a Chinook insight.

Complaining about the weather aside, this Butternut Squash Soup is the perfect post holiday transition, thick and comforting, but hearty, filling and healthy.  Normally one who needs protein at every meal, this soup even fills me up and tides me over till my next meal.  So hold off on the salads for another week and enjoy this gloriously thick and luscious soup instead!

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Tips and Tricks

ColourS of the Year

January 5, 2016

It’s that time of year again – when Pantone, the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for design industries, reveals the colour of the year.  Shockingly, for the first time ever, they announced two colours of the year – Rose Quartz, a pretty pink and Serenity, a bright periwinkle blue.

Colours of the year

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Life

My Word

January 4, 2016

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It’s a new year and for many of us that means setting resolutions and goals for ourselves.  If you read my post on New Years Eve, (if you were out celebrating and missed it, you can read it here) you know that carving out time for reflection is an important part of my closing the book on a year.  I believe it’s an important part of consciously creating and achieving in the new year, how can you possibly know where you’re headed without understanding where you’ve come from?

Having said that I don’t set resolutions.  They are far to serious and the word itself if riddled with negative energy, why would I want to bring that into the new year?

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