Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 20, 2019

Family Food, Inspiration

Destination Happy

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 20, 2019

Family Food, Inspiration

Keep moving forward. I think we all feel this is the most important thing to do, but why? Is it because we believe there is something magical waiting for us at the end of our moving forward, or do we simply feel like anything is better than standing still?

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

December 27, 2017

Family Food

Back-on-Track Turkey Soup

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

December 27, 2017

Family Food

Soooo we’re somewhere between Christmas and New Year, not quite sure what day it is or what we’re supposed to be doing. Isn’t it crazy how much we become creatures of habit? A few days out of the routine and we’re left feeling like an award winning novelist with writers block.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 22, 2017

12 Months +, Family Food, Quick Family Meals

Rapid Ratatouille

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 22, 2017

12 Months +, Family Food, Quick Family Meals

Like it or not, I’m starting to realize in all my posts about baby food that I don’t have a baby at home anymore. It has only taken me 7 years.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 7, 2017

6 Months +, 8 Months +, Family Food

Soups and Sweaters

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

January 7, 2017

6 Months +, 8 Months +, Family Food

Whoa! Are the holidays really over…that fast? All that work, cooking, cleaning, buying, tree or other significant symbol of celebration assembly efforts, decorating inside and outside, holiday parties, holiday lunches, family get togethers, eggnog and peppermint flavoured everything…is all gone? YES!! IT’S ALL GONE…isn’t it bliss?!?

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

September 11, 2016

Family Food, 12 Months +

Rescued Peaches

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

September 11, 2016

Family Food, 12 Months +

Friends, Romans and countrymen (or women), I implore you…if the peaches in your fruit bowl are starting to over-ripen and are becoming a fruit fly’s fantasy, don’t throw them out. Put them in the fridge.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

October 25, 2015

8 Months +, Family Food

3pm. on Sunday

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

October 25, 2015

8 Months +, Family Food

It’s 3pm. on Sunday afternoon. Do you feel like I do? The weekend is almost over. Another work week is knocking on the door but before you answer you must contemplate which out of the gazillion more things to do you should do.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

October 4, 2015

8 Months +, Family Food

Associate Domestic Engineer

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

October 4, 2015

8 Months +, Family Food

My youngest son is just about 6 so we figured it was time to teach him the value and relationship of how work produces money and how money can buy stuff you want. We wanted to demonstrate how much work it takes to collect enough money to buy that ever elusive Golden Ninjago Lego.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

September 7, 2015

Family Food

Superfood Ingredient Transformers

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

September 7, 2015

Family Food

I like taking an indulgent, baked goods recipe and experimenting with it to replace the usual un-healthy, un-heart friendly ingredients with other superfood ingredients with the goal of having them taste better than awful, or dare I say, great.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

August 16, 2015

12 Months +, Family Food

Question Period

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

August 16, 2015

12 Months +, Family Food

Do you have kids in daycare or school and at the end of each day you’re anxious to find out what they got up to? They have been away for 8 or so hours to take on the world and navigate through their day without you.

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

August 3, 2015

12 Months +, Family Food

It's All About Food

Shannon Coburn-Hughes

August 3, 2015

12 Months +, Family Food

Never do you realize quite so intensely that our existence is all about food until you have the dreaded pregnancy morning sickness. Actually, in my past experience a more appropriate name would be “every waking minute sickness”.