Welcome!

Hello fellow real food lovers :)

My goal with this blog is to share my passion for creating home-cooked, healthful, real foods with whomever is looking for inspiration in their own kitchen.

Growing up on the West Coast of Canada, the idea of self-sustainable eating and farming was fostered at a young age. My family's ocean-side farm had an expanse of about 10 acres - enough for a hearty garden, supplying our family with an abundance of everything from fresh tomatoes and spinach, to beets and potatoes, to rhubarb and cascade berries . I would spend summers here, with my Grandmother Ruth, learning the secrets of her kitchen; baking, preserving, smoking, canning, and cooking. My job was picking the blackberries. The vines grew wildly, and were imbued across the property. Yielding buckets upon buckets of plump, juicy, sun-ripened blackberries, that seemed to make it to my mouth more frequently than the bottom of the bucket. I knew then how wonderful homegrown, real food, tasted. 

In an effort to preserve the wisdom imparted on me by my Grandmother, I have been saving and collecting recipes, and making and re-making the same "cook book" since I was five-years old (a product of perfectionism and only-child syndrome, I think). In an attempt to keep moving forward, I wanted to start sharing my recipes now, rather than wait until my cook-book is finally complete.

Eating well, is living well. I hope you enjoy my eclectic array of homemade delicacies!

Hayley