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24 Vegan Options in the South Okanagan Part 2

Feb 15, 2019
5 min

24 Vegan Options in the South Okanagan Part 2

When I posted the first 12 vegan options in the South Okanagan last week, I was inundated with comments, emails and private messages suggesting even more vegan spots. I had already compiled this second part, which means I now have well beyond 24 vegan choices! At some point, I’m going to have to post even more vegan-friendly establishments in the South Okanagan! I have to say, I had no idea there were so many plant-based food options here. I’m so pleasantly surprised. Stay tu

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24 Vegan Options in the South Okanagan Part 1

Feb 8, 2019
7 min

24 Vegan Options in the South Okanagan Part 1

As you can probably piece together from the posts around here, I am clearly not a vegan. However, I do know a lot of vegans and vegetarians, including most of my extended family, and I wholeheartedly support and respect their choice to be so. I recently got the news that my brother, his wife and their newborn baby girl are coming to visit us in Summerland. I am more excited than words can describe, but I knew that the fact that they’re vegan might make dining out while they’r

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Somebody To Love: Smugglers Smokehouse

Jan 30, 2019
3 min

Somebody To Love: Smugglers Smokehouse

When you’re on your way to see a Freddy Mercury biopic, you can’t really settle for drive-thru or soggy spinach thrown in a hoagie by a “sandwich artist”. Right? Like, you can’t really sit through that epic Live Aid performance as acted out impeccably by Rami Malek, with a Baconator gassing up your intestines or a bad case of Taco Bell Regret. No, you need to break free from the norm and go a little more unforgettable when choosing your pre-Mercury meal. When my husband and I

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4 Ways To Get Your Umami Fix Without Turkey

Oct 9, 2018
5 min

4 Ways To Get Your Umami Fix Without Turkey

Thanksgiving, for most, means turkey and stuffing, family and drinks and an awkward dinner table where everyone except drunk Uncle Bert tries to avoid talking politics or religion. It means that familiar dishwashing production line full of your aunts armed with tea towels asking where everything goes. It’s about your dad making a huge production of the moment he undoes his overworked belt after consuming two slices of warm pumpkin pie, melty vanilla ice cream and all. Thanksg

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Giveaway and Video Recipe: Local Okanagan Apple Cobbler

Sep 26, 2018
2 min

Giveaway and Video Recipe: Local Okanagan Apple Cobbler

For some reason, I always had this idea in the back of my mind that cobbler was some sort of Southern culinary sorcery. I thought it was the sort of recipe you could only really get good at if you had great grandmom’s recipe and seven generations of fine Georgian ladies training you since birth. Then, one day, I found myself living in the Okanagan, gasping for air under piles of free peaches each summer. I had to do something with all that fruit, so I decided to look at a cob

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