The first meal out for our family after having a baby was sushi. Our newborn slept in her car seat and I gorged on the fish that had been ba...

Don't let that fake mom on the commercial fool you - Nutella is evil. I don't care if you tell me there is a cup of skim milk in an ...

For the record, a chocolate chip cookie is not just a chocolate chip cookie. Put aside the preferences for chewy or chunky, nuts or pure, co...

It's been a rough, rough couple of weeks in the Arkison household. Give us a few more weeks and we should be back on track. This week, h...

If the kid asks you what an eggplant is and in her prettiest voice ever asks you to buy it - pleeeease? - then you buy it. Then hope like he...

Hubby has a disgusting habit. Okay, he has more than one. Opening beer bottles with his teeth, eating knobs of butter, just butter, and eati...

This one is not for the kids! I'm happy to announce a new relationship and upcoming event with J. Webb Wine Merchant Ltd . Lee Hansen an...

We went nut-free for such a long time in this house because The Monster was at high risk for allergies. With the risks behind us we've w...

My mom just left after a weekend of cooking, giggles, and laundry. She came down to help us after I blew out both my knees skiing last weeke...

After a very busy morning gluing brown circles to bigger brown circles, building floor puzzles of cats, and dancing to a jazzy version of Sp...

Every book in our house is read a minimum of 4 times an hour.  Each day it might be a different rotation of books, if I am fortunate enough ...

So we finally get our grass in, our fence up, and have even hosted dinner once or twice. Then the City and Volker Stevin show up. They to...

Behold the simply boring jicama.  Crisp but rather bland, fresh but neutral. I can't say the first time I had it.  I do remember an exte...

You know those moments when you speak out loud and you probably shouldn't?    Yeah, I had one of those on the weekend.  I'm fighting...

This has been a long winter for everyone.  No matter how committed I am to eating local as much as possible I've been caving lately.  I ...

The home of my brother- and sister-in-law is situated in country residential East of Edmonton. Their house is set back from a rural road and...

In the winter at the Calgary Farmer's Market the pickings get slim.  We still go to buy the bulk of our groceries, have brunch and coffe...

We've all had those moments in our jobs where we want to run screaming from the building, hands pulling out hair, and screaming obscenit...

It was a surf and turf weekend. After a crazy week with the renos and lots of mess the family - meaning me - was in no mood for cooking. Out...

There are sleep regressions well documented for babies and toddlers (and we know all about them lately), but are there eating regressions? ...