homemade pizza

Almost no homemade meal is easier, or tastier, than pizza. Make a batch of pizza dough at the beginning of the week and you've got the base for pizza for the rest of the week. As long as your kitchen has the holy trinity of pizza in stock (dough, sauce, mozzarella), then you can whip up a pizza with whatever toppings you have in the fridge. I've had cherry tomatoes from my balcony garden all summer, those combined with onion, garlic cloves, and sausage just makes my mouth water. Sausage and asparagus is a good combination too! I've added my recipe for homemade pizza to the freebies page for download.

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buy local eat natural - caprese salad

Cherry tomatoes from the balcony garden

In the summer, caprese salad is my go-to recipe. With local tomatoes from the farmers market combined with fresh mozzarella and drizzled with a dressing of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Here's the recipe:

1 tomato sliced or 15-20 cherry tomatoes halved

1 ball of fresh buffalo mozzarella

fresh basil

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/8 cup balsamic vinegar

1 teaspoon honey

salt and pepper

Arrange the tomato slices or halves on a plate. Break the mozzarella into pieces and scatter over the tomatoes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. In a jar or a container with a lid, put the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and honey. Put the lid on securely and shake vigoroulsy to combine well. Drizzle this dressing over the tomatoes and mozzarella. Garnish with basil leaves.

I've added this recipe to the freebies page for download. I also entered this recipe in the Buy Local Eat Natural contest (@eatlocalnatural).

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museums & mustaches

Photo: Photography West

There's a reason why mustaches have become such a trend: they're really a lot of fun! We recently attended a fundraiser for the Kelowna Museums Society and we were happy to find out they had a photo booth set up. That, combined with lots of wine, cupcakes, and a fashion show and it was a great evening. Awesome Okanagan posted photos from the evening, and Photography West has all of the photo booth photos on their site.

the perfect dress

photo source

Does anyone know where to find the dress that Mindy Kaling is wearing in the latest issue of Bust Magazine? The photo credits say the dress is from Parker and when I google Parker I find a dress that is similar to the one above but not the exact dress. True, the dress is probably out of my price range but it is the perfect dress- one you could wear to work then dress up for the evening, and also throw on with a pair of leggings for the weekend. I have a closet full of dresses that I thought were the perfect dress but then turned out not to be. The search continues.

diy beaded necklace

photo from ecab

I looove this necklace. If you love it too, then make your own like I did with this easy-to-follow tutorial from ECAB. Tip: keep your eye out for inexpensive beaded necklaces and then take apart the necklaces and use the beads and other parts to create your own designs. 

 

the necklace that I made-  I wore it so much that one of the bead tips broke

a new necklace that needs to be re-worked

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