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Sunshine Salad

Barbara Bamber — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:30:04 +0000

{ Can you tell the sun has been shining again? } Remember those Sunshine Salads that made the hockey potluck dinner rounds.. full of marshmallows, sour cream, mandarin oranges and coconut? I thought it was time that salad got an updated look.. With a nod to citrus with sun shaped slices of Cara Cara […]

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Indonesian Slaw with Spicy Peanut Dressing

Barbara Bamber — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:48:14 +0000

Temperance is a virtue commonly practiced in the New Year. Restraint, self-control, austerity can sometime feel like self-denial { or heaven forbid } self-deprivation. Fortunately, there exists many recipes which quench both the thirst for “healthy” and satiate the hunger for “yum”. This Indonesian Slaw with its Spicy Peanut Dressing does it for me. You […]

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Wild Black Walnut and Honeyed Rhubarb Salad

Barbara Bamber — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:57:23 +0000

spring is such a sweet but busy time spent plundering garden centers with overflowing trays of brilliant color and their earthen scented ride in the backseat home. winter coats and moods are shrugged off and all is airy and new.. { here is my view from the Back Door, c ♥ ! } { Please […]

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Jane’s Crunchy Pecan Salmon, Salsa Verde and a Kale Salad

Barbara Bamber — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:59:12 +0000

The Spring Festivus worked! { Even my blog seems to have imported without a hitch! } Warm temperatures have begun melting snow, streets are becoming a slushy mess.. and everyone is basking in the welcome sunshine! Not that I have anything against the color white. White is a calm, clean, warm color, one that reminds […]

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Fall Nesting and Earl’s Kopycat Santa Fe Salad

Barbara Bamber — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:14:07 +0000

There was a cool timbre to the morning air last Saturday as Katie and I hefted our bikes onto the car rack. We were heady with plans to strike out for an autumn coast along the city’s park pathways, longing to be enveloped in the scented Bow River’s embrace then stopping for a latte along the […]

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Earl’s KopyKat Westcoast Salad

Barbara Bamber — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:05:14 +0000

my parents had the family over for dinner last night { before they headed out to the lake.. thankfully flooding has subsided } i was asked to bring “a salad” i’ve been making salads for my mom since i was old enough to stand on a chair and whack out a few carrots on her […]

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A Winter’s Night Pomegranate Salad

Barbara Bamber — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:52:59 +0000

“When you are so busy working outside of your home, it’s truly important to have the right people to support you. It’s not that you’re too busy, it’s that you need the right resources around you to help you out.” I won’t ever forget that advice, (given along with a plumber’s phone number). Sue had […]

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“Number One” Salad… and the First of Many

Barbara Bamber — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:20:56 +0000

There are so many “firsts” in our lives. First time ever meeting someone who becomes a special someone…a friend or even more significant. And of course there are plenty of firsts to be praised, clapped for and duly noted when you have a child or a pet. It feels like it might be time for […]

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