A Tasty Salmon Wrap & A New Blog

I like to prepare myself quick lunches. Today I prepared a tasty salmon wrap. Quick to put together and delicious. I mixed salmon with grated carrots, greens onions, a little mayo, added Monterey Jack cheese and fresh lettuce. Voilà! Quick, healthy lunch.

Talking about healthy food I just discovered a new blog. It's Sophie, a nutritionist from Oxford, England. Her blog is called: Mostly Eating. I like the design of her blog. She wants to fight healthy eating and sustainable food choices. I like her approach. She also had interesting recipes like:

-Haggis and winter tzatziki wraps
-Middle-Eastern Lamb Polpettine with Houmous

I hope that you will be visiting her.

On a sad note I really have to talk about something that keeps popping into my head. It's one of those things in life where I ask myself over and over: why? and I don't get any answers. Last night after hockey my son said: mom, my defence partner will not be back next week. So I said: why? He said he his getting chimo. I starred at him with eyes full of emotion and we start talking about it. He said that he had just learned about it, at the end of the game, when the coach, which is the father of the boy, said that his son's cancer came back for the second time. We did not know he had cancer at first. That boy is only 18 yrs old, handsome, goes to school, loves playing hockey, has a great father. I'm sending all of my prayers to the family today. But I can't stop asking myself: WHY???

Have a good day and hug your loved ones today.
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Hummus & Pita Chips

Last week Val at More Than Burnt Toast inspired me to write about lebanese cuisine. She made couple recipes from our famous Ricardo Larivée, that now has his show on Food Network Canada.

Ricardo is a cook and food journalism well know in Quebec. He has a daily show on Radio-Canada. I've been collecting his magazines, for few years now, and I own his cookbook. He is new at Food Network Canada. He's gaining in popularity all across Canada. If you have a chance to buy one of his magazines you'll be amazed by the beautiful pictures and the great recipes. All can be done with ingredients you'll find at your supermarket or your farmers market.

I like to prepare snacks for after school. My two teenage boys have been requesting hummus. That's their 'junk food'. They like to snack on healthy food. So I went thru my pile of Ricardo's magazines and decided to try his hummus recipe. To go along, what better than pita chips? I like my pita chips with a thin layer of olive oil and I sprinkly on some zaatar. The kids were happy!

Recipe:
Ricardo's Hummus

You can also visit Peter at Kalofagas, he has review the Asian-Style Chicken Lollipops by Ricardo.
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