Last week I was invited to join a bunch of other bloggers and Food Network chef Lynn Crawford at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts to cook and learn about an awesome new line of pasta that Catelli� has launched in Western Canada-Healthy Harvest� Ancient Grains!




Did you know I've secretly wished for years that I had attended culinary school? To be there with Lynn Crawford made me



This salad is amazing. When I was at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts cooking it, I carefully followed all the instructions and at one point stopped because it looked so beautiful. All those luscious veggies just sitting in a bowl, waiting to be tossed with pasta. Total thing of beauty.




Then Lynn came over and I suspect in an effort not to let any of the extra veg laying around go to




Cooking with kids, especially ones who aren't your own, is always a bit of a challenge. You never know what their previous experience with food is; do they have issues with textures? Are they used to only eating white food? Will they have a meltdown if you cut out sugar? I feel like everything is always a gamble-and that's totally okay, I'm up for the challenge.

Back in 2013 I sat in a hotel