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Travel: Gluten Free In Toronto

by Carrie Recipes
Gluten Free Toronto

If you follow me on Facebook and Twitter, you may have noticed that I was in Toronto a few weeks ago. It’s a city I had gotten to know more and more while my daughter went to school there and, when she decided to make a trip back, I decided that I wanted to as [...]

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Travel Diary: Big Island Part VI

by Carrie Recipes
Travel Diary: Hawaii Part VI

I hope everyone has been enjoying my travel blogs about the Big Island, Hawaii. I had a really hard time trying to condense our trip in to one or two blogs so that’s why we ended up with six! This is the final blog on Hawaii. Time for a teaser! The next few blogs are [...]

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Travel Diary: Big Island Hawaii Part V

by Carrie Recipes
Travel Diary: Hawaii Part IV

We are really loving Hawaii. The sun, heat, waves, and humidity are absolutely lovely. We live in Calgary, Alberta and it’s winter there, which means cold temperatures, snow, no-humidity, and mega dryness. When we left Calgary my hands were cracking and bleeding. So you can understand all the enthusiasm. I would highly recommend the Hilton Waikoloa [...]

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Travel Diary: Big Island Hawaii Part IV

by Carrie Travel
Travel Diary: Hawaii Part IV

  Today was a great day! After lounging at the Hotel for 3 days, enjoying the sun and water, we got in to our rental car and went exploring. First we loaded up a beach bag and headed to Puako Beach. It’s a public beach, quite small, and has a lot of trees covering the [...]

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Travel Diary: Big Island Hawaii Part III

by Carrie Travel

Spam, Spam, Spam. Why on earth would a gluten free blog have a story about Spam? Well, it seems to me that a travel diary about Hawaii has to include the subject. Why? Well, I knew I was going to have to write a blog about Spam while here in Hawaii when I went to Target and [...]

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Travel Dairy: Big Island Part II

by Carrie Recipes

At the hotel I picked up the “Big Island of Hawaii Dining” in Paradise magazine. I was so excited when I saw one of the cover stories on Island Farmers Markets. Being in tropical paradise with heat and endless sunshine I couldn’t  imagine the abundance of fruit and veggies. I could hardly contain my excitement. [...]

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Travel Diary: Big Island Hawaii Part I

by Carrie Travel

We departed Calgary on January 3rd for the Big Island in Hawaii. Kevin and I haven’t been to Hawaii since our honeymoon 26 years ago. On our honeymoon we visited Oahu and Kauai, so we were excited to see a new island. My hubby was also really excited about seeing the Volcano. Our flight was [...]

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Travel Blog: Gluten Free in Santa Fe

by Carrie Travel
Sante Fe Gluten-Free

This summer, my husband and I were invited to a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Neither of us had ever been there, but I was so excited to experience the flavours of this area. I knew that I was attending 2 cooking classes and could not wait. We stayed at the Eldorado Hotel and [...]

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Recommended: Gluten Free in Invermere, BC

by Carrie Carrie Recommends
gluten free in invermere bc

This weekend my husband and I spent the weekend in Invermere, BC with our dear friends, the Bowies. We had an amazing time with our friends hiking, eating, shopping and especially visiting. They also took us for a great tour of the area, which included a walk down main street. As always when I travel [...]

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Weekend at the Chateau Lake Louise

by Carrie Family

This year for my husbands Christmas party we were lucky enough to stay at the Chateau Lake Louise, in Lake Louise Alberta. The Chateau for many years has been voted one of the worlds top ten hotels. For us it is a 2 hour drive from Calgary. I was nervous about spending the weekend without [...]

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Trip to Vancouver and Seattle!

by Carrie Travel
vancouver seattle skyline

Last week 4 of us went on a holiday to Vancouver and Seattle. Vancouver to visit a dear friend and then on to Seattle to do some US shopping. As Canadians, we have for the last 5 years headed to the west coast and then down to the US. It is really only a 11 [...]

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Trip to Los Angeles

by Carrie Travel
trip to la

Well Kevin and I are back from our week in LA. We stayed at the lovely Belamar Hotel in Manhattan Beach. The weather was fantastic, and we basically relaxed in the sun and sand for the week. Eating Gluten-free for the week was no problem. I found that I could eat off most menus and [...]

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Happy Easter!

by Carrie Travel
happy easter

Happy Easter Everyone! I am off to California for a week of sun and sand. Thought I would leave you with a lovely lemon dessert to look at. Lemon cake infused with lemon zest, Homemade lemon curd with 1 cup of fresh lemon juice, Whipped cream folded into lemon curd for the icing, Strawberries, Raspberries [...]

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Weekend Away in the Mountains

by Carrie Travel

This weekend we spent in Kananaskis country. My husband’s company had their annual weekend away Christmas party. It is a great time to spend catching up with co-workers and their families-plus spending time with our own. This year only my youngest came with us-so Kevin and I still had a lot of time by ourselves [...]

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