Happy Thanksgiving Weekend folks! 🍂🙏
Flash back four years ago...
I was featured in Chatelaine magazine and in their on-line video: Exclusive survey! This is 40(ish) featuring 40 Canadian women on what we're doing differently in our 40's- from what we really think about love, sex, work, guilt, money and ambition!
For me, this decade has truly been about giving back to the community and our future generation-- through my real food advocacy efforts then as a voluntary Food Revolution Ambassador, and my personal and work projects to promote food education, cooking fresh from scratch & healthy eating with all ages, especially kids 👩🍳👨🍳.
At this Thanksgiving, I take pause to relish in my accomplishments, and channel my gratitude for the wonderful people I have met, partner with and the incredible opportunities I have been given to do my life's passion. Thank you all, my family and to the universe that has been so good to me. 💕🙏. #namaste
#susanssavourit #gratitude #givingthanks #ethos #payitforward #thisisbeyond40 #community #👆❤ #foodeducation
Connecting with Nature At Andrews' Scenic Acres Farm 🚜🌾🍂
To be able to be in an open field, basking in nature's glory is so freeing-- you feel instantly recharged like a reboot to your system weighed down by the humdrum of day-to-day and hecticness of city life...
This 39-year old farm is rustling with fun family activities, food, a haunted forest walk-through and pick-your-own pumpkins, corn, berries and even flowers, just within a relatively short drive from the hustle and bustle of the city core. They grow 165 acres of luscious fruit and vegetables with their home farm dedicated 100% to pick your own crops, and these days it's pumpkins, Indian corn as well as apples, red grapes and raspberries! They also have excellent flower picking: dahlias, sunflowers & gladiolus 🌻. Located west in Halton Hills and housing a Mennonite constructed barn as a 3200 sq. ft. farm market, they offer the same ready picked fruit and vegetables that are available in the fields along with a great selection of honey, fruit jams, home-baked goods such as cookies, tarts and an array of delicious pies. They also ferment on site over 25 different award winning fruit and grape wines and cider 🍎🍇🍷🥂.
The sprawl of stunning scenery is endless.... catches you in the moment and let's you stay there taking it all in one breath at a time... savouring it @andrewsscenic. Check it out!
Sunday Sun Salute! 🌞🙏
Thanksgiving at my parents place with the entire fam bam on Saturday. They haven't tried my cabbage rolls yet, and I was pretty excited to bake them up there for all to try.
"Mom.... we want to contribute something!" 👨🍳👨🍳👨🍳
So cookies it was. Crispy on the outside, chewy inside... Scroll down for recipe.
I was featured in Chatelaine magazine and in their on-line video: Exclusive survey! This is 40(ish) featuring 40 Canadian women on what we're doing differently in our 40's- from what we really think about love, sex, work, guilt, money and ambition!
For me, this decade has truly been about giving back to the community and our future generation-- through my real food advocacy efforts then as a voluntary Food Revolution Ambassador, and my personal and work projects to promote food education, cooking fresh from scratch & healthy eating with all ages, especially kids 👩🍳👨🍳.
At this Thanksgiving, I take pause to relish in my accomplishments, and channel my gratitude for the wonderful people I have met, partner with and the incredible opportunities I have been given to do my life's passion. Thank you all, my family and to the universe that has been so good to me. 💕🙏. #namaste
#susanssavourit #gratitude #givingthanks #ethos #payitforward #thisisbeyond40 #community #👆❤ #foodeducation
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| Chatelaine January 2016 issue (shot in fall 2015) |
Connecting with Nature At Andrews' Scenic Acres Farm 🚜🌾🍂
To be able to be in an open field, basking in nature's glory is so freeing-- you feel instantly recharged like a reboot to your system weighed down by the humdrum of day-to-day and hecticness of city life...
This 39-year old farm is rustling with fun family activities, food, a haunted forest walk-through and pick-your-own pumpkins, corn, berries and even flowers, just within a relatively short drive from the hustle and bustle of the city core. They grow 165 acres of luscious fruit and vegetables with their home farm dedicated 100% to pick your own crops, and these days it's pumpkins, Indian corn as well as apples, red grapes and raspberries! They also have excellent flower picking: dahlias, sunflowers & gladiolus 🌻. Located west in Halton Hills and housing a Mennonite constructed barn as a 3200 sq. ft. farm market, they offer the same ready picked fruit and vegetables that are available in the fields along with a great selection of honey, fruit jams, home-baked goods such as cookies, tarts and an array of delicious pies. They also ferment on site over 25 different award winning fruit and grape wines and cider 🍎🍇🍷🥂.
The sprawl of stunning scenery is endless.... catches you in the moment and let's you stay there taking it all in one breath at a time... savouring it @andrewsscenic. Check it out!
Sunday Sun Salute! 🌞🙏
Sometimes, life needs yoga and wine... cause gratitude and grapes goes hand-in-hand 😄🧘♀️🍇🍷
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| At Gallucci Winery |
Thanksgiving at my parents place with the entire fam bam on Saturday. They haven't tried my cabbage rolls yet, and I was pretty excited to bake them up there for all to try.
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| Pork and Rice Cabbage Rolls |
"Mom.... we want to contribute something!" 👨🍳👨🍳👨🍳
So cookies it was. Crispy on the outside, chewy inside... Scroll down for recipe.
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| Chewy and Crispy Oatmeal Raisin and Chocolate Chip Cookies |
My brother-in-law's stuffed sage and garlic rubbed 17 lb.-er turkey!
The potluck Thanksgiving dinner spread... a mish mash of Canadian and Chinese food :D
These oatmeal chocolate chip raisin cookies were the little sweet finale to a full and satisfying Thanksgiving dinner with family 💕... sooo good to the last crumb.
Chewy and Crispy Oatmeal Raisin and Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 30 cookies
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups rolled large oats
1 cup dark chocolate chips (or use semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips)
1 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Combine butter, both sugars in a large bowl, and beat with an electric mixer until smooth and well combined. Add egg and vanilla and beat until fully incorporated.
Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl and stir until well blended. Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place 3 inch apart on prepared baking sheets and flatten slightly with back of a spoon (cookies will spread). Bake cookies for 13 to 15 minutes or until lightly golden at the edges. Let cool on baking sheets for five minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack(s).
Great Addition TIP: Add 1/2 cup raw, shelled sunflower seeds or 1/4 cup hemp seeds or ground flax seeds, and add with oats in step 4.
Cooking TIP: When you bake one sheet of cookies at a time, it ensures crisp and evenly browned edges. But you can bake two sheets at a time, just use the top and lower oven racks and switch positions halfway through baking.
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