Thai Crunchy Chicken Salad Wraps

I love thai sweet-chili sauce, it's one of my favourite flavours. So when it comes time to make fresh and delicious salad wraps, there is only one flavour of sauce I want to use.

One of the nice things about salad wraps is that you don't feel too over stuffed while you're eating them. They're also great to put out as an appetizer to share before a meal. Of course, I love it as a main course. Ideally served with fresh dumplings on the side!

This meal is sweet, savory, fresh and simple to put together. It's a mouthful to say and eat, but it is TASTY!

In the recipe below you'll see that I've made my own Thai sweet chili sauce, but if you'd rather skip that step and just buy a bottle from the store that works too! I understand that not everyone keeps fish sauce around their home like I do.

Whatever your method, I know you'll just gobble these up! so without further ado...

5 Shoes You Need For The Holiday Season!

Like many women, shoes are my weakness.

I love a beautiful scarf, have a penchant for Kate Spade bags, and have a fairly enviable jewelry collection.

But for all of that, shoes are my favourite, my go to accessory, the bane of my wallet (or my feet, depending on the heel).

Lamb & Butternut Squash Tagine

This year for my birthday, I was well and truly spoiled.

My parents bought me a beautiful cast iron tagine from Le Creuset.

Friday Wine Down!

Happy Friday!

What a long week it has been, but I'm happy to say that it is the weekend!

December is 1/3 over (what!) and we're racing towards Christmas at breakneck speed! This is the perfect weekend to finish up your shopping, have friends over for a holiday cocktail, and bust out your ugly sweater to go caroling in!

Or you can stay home, put your feet up and read a good book by the fire... whatever floats your boat!

This weekend will be filled with birthday fun, Christmas cheer, and hopefully a workout or two for me! But before we get into THAT let's Wine Down this week!

5 Tips For Staying Fit During The Holidays!

Trying to keep fit during the holidays is hard. 

A never ending uphill battle against chocolate, candy, big carb filled meals, alcohol, and barely having enough time to get to the gym between all your planned festivities.

No one is shocked when come New Year's Eve, they’ve packed on 5 lbs of holiday weight.. Which of course makes pulling on your slinky party dress to ring in the New Year that much harder!

Let’s be real: I’m not giving up holiday treats. My last post was about my favourite Christmas Cookies! So what are we to do? 

This holiday season, take control of your health and fitness! I've outlined 5 easy steps you can take to stay on top of your game through December and into the new year. You're going to OWN your New Year's Eve cocktail dress!

Let's get started:

Holiday Cookie Baking!

One of my favourite things about the holiday season is all the great baking!

Something about Christmas is synonymous with great food, but ESPECIALLY great dessert!

This weekend, with Christmas music blaring, I decided to kick off the holiday baking season with three of my favourite holiday cookies.

There's plenty of great options to chose from: gingerbread, sugar cookies, peanut butter balls, Santa's whiskers; but I decided to go with three of my favourite cookies, chocolate crackles, chocolate walnut biscotti and ginger cookies!

Friday Wine Down

Happy Friday!

I’m writing a Wine Down! I’m writing a Wine Down!

For those keeping track, my last Friday Wine Down post was back at the beginning of August, which is crazy! The autumn was a little nuts between travelling, applying to and starting a new job, and writing my PMP.

November was so busy I only put out THREE blog posts. Seriously, I’ve been swamped.

Now that I’ve made it to the other side, I have a whole month of content ALREADY written and I can start my weekly updates again (which I’m very excited about). So rather than highlight things from the last week (though there will be some of that!) I want to fill you guys in on the last few months of exciting things around CW&T and in my life. 

Get ready for all the excitement!

10 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit!

December is here!

While I’ve been embracing the holidays for a few weeks now, I respect that most prefer to wait until closer to Christmas to get into the holiday spirit.

But now that December is here, it’s time to shake off your Bah Humbug’s and rev up for the holiday fun! Christmas comes just once a year and what a fun and beautiful time it is!

If you’re having some difficulty getting in the Christmas mood, follow my 10 sure fire tips for getting into the Christmas Spirit!