Meet Carissa

Hi! I'm Carissa!

I'm a Canadian mom of a young daughter and son. After living in Wisconsin for 7.5 years, my family recently moved back "home" to Edmonton to be closer to our extended family. We have the pandemic to thank for this, as my husband is now able to work remotely for his dream job from Canada.

I have a long-time love of food and cooking and an extensive knowledge of nutrition. I majored in Human Nutrition at University and completed a dietetic internship. Though I no longer practice, I was a Registered Dietitian for several years.

Shortly after our move to Wisconsin, I found that I was a stay-at-home mom that no longer had an outlet to share my passion for food. So I decided to start this blog. I went in with absolutely zero knowledge of websites.

My husband helped me get started - registering my domain name, getting me set up with a host, and downloading WordPress. After that, I was on my own, learning everything from online tutorials and videos. I'm quite proud of how far I've come.

I also knew almost nothing about photography when I started. I actually thought having great photos wasn't important as long as I posted great recipes. I very quickly learned that I was very, very wrong and began honing my photography skills.

When I'm not in the kitchen, I love to read, sing and work in my yard/garden. I love camping and hiking, and am so glad to be within a half a day's drive of the mountains again.

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Want to know more? Random facts about me!

• I attended the University of Alberta, majoring in Human Nutrition.
• Learning about food photography for the blog got me into other types of photography. I gravitate to macro (close-up) photography of plants and insects, but I also love landscape and nature photography when I get the opportunity.
• I love to travel! We have driven to both the East Coast of Canada and Alberta with the kids on more than one occasion. We also love to travel internationally and hope to do it more often as the kids get older.
• I love coffee and can't go a day without it. I have experimented with many different brewing methods and home coffee roasting.
• I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis in 2011, the day after I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I feel grateful that my chronic disease has been mostly well-managed and stable. I was later diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroid when I was pregnant with my son.
• I love nature and being outdoors. We love to hike, bike, and picnic and see all that our landscape has to offer.
• I'm active on a number of different social media platforms (find links at the bottom of the page), but my favorite is Instagram. Here you can see not only my food/blog pictures, but some of my nature photos too, and maybe even the occasional family photo.

Thanks for reading, and I'd love to hear from you sometime! Learn how to contact me here.