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Easy Arugula Salad Recipe

This is the most simple salad, but every time I make it people rave about it.  The best time to eat Arugula is in the summer when it's fresh and local, but I love it any time of the year.  This is a very common salad in Italy and I fell in love with it when traveling there.  You can find it at many local Italian restaurants too.

Ingredients:

Arugula - 2 bunches or 1 package

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12 Dessert and Drink Recipes for St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is traditionally served with green beer and most likely whatever free bar snack is available.

This year, I think we can celebrate better than with stale green beer and nuts. In its place, we've rounded up 6 delicious (and always classy) cocktails and 6 mouth watering desserts:

Drinks 


1. DIY Shamrock Shake (Alcoholic Version!): We whipped this up last year, but this...

We Love Fridays: Edible Spray Paint

Have you ever wanted to eat a golden apple? Or perhaps a blue orange? Maybe some silver ham? I know I have. I mean, why wouldn't you?

That's the idea behind this German company: The Deli Garage. Their product 'Esslack' is an edible spray paint, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: 


The paint has no taste, it simply coats food in a fun colour....

6 Healthy 100 Calorie Snacks To Try

The other week, I asked the Chick community what their favourite healthy snacks were because lately I've been a cheat. Chocolate, cake and cookies, I'll be the first to admit to having a sweet tooth! 

I'll also be the first to admit that these aren't always the smartest choices, especially when you consider how many nutritious, low cal tasty treats are available and really...

5 Mouth-Watering Sandwiches to Brighten Up Your Work Week

Brown bagging it this week to work? Me too. Usually bringing a lunch to work brings disappointment. Blergh- yet another pb+j? Boo. However, brown bagging it doesn't have to mean boring. We found 5 recipes for innovative and delicious sandwiches. It's oh-so-good-you'll-never-pay-for-lunch-again! 
 
Monday: Spicy Crab Sandwich 


Combine crab meat with sesame oil...

Valentine's Day Cocktail Recipe: Love Potion #9

We should always celebrate love. In any form. Isn't it worth celebrating? I'll certainly cheers to love!

And on that slightly cheesy, but totally genuine note, I present to you this Valentine's Day cocktail recipe for Love Potion #9! With cherry liqueur (mmmm!), sweet and sour mix (oooh!) and vodka (yay!), this recipe combines tart and sweet and it comes with a little kick to...

10 Heart Shaped DIY Recipes for Valentine's Day

What better what to celebrate love than with food? After all, isn't the way to a man's heart (or a woman's for that matter) through their stomach? I certainly know it's the way to mine. 

In honour of V-Day and of course, just generally delicious food, we found 10 recipes for DIY heart shaped foods! They're all so adorable, you might not even want to eat them (but you...

Valentine's Day Dessert Idea: Easy Tiramisu Recipe

This is a story about good intentions. And chocolate. And alcohol. 

So as you can imagine, three of my favourite things.

After a few trips to several local grocers (it turns out ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese are rather hard to find) and the liquor store, I came home laden with ingredients and a firm plan to make the recipe "tomorrow".

In other words, I had every intention of making it later...