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Well, here’s recipe number 2 from the Mother’s Day dinner I prepared! Chilled avocado & cucumber soup. This one was my dad’s favourite dish of the night. He ate almost all the leftovers by himself the next day.

This recipe requires either a food processor or a large blender.

1 large cucumber, pealed
2 avocados
5 green onion ends (white parts only)
2 tbsp finely chopped spinach
1 clove garlic, minced
1c buttermilk
lime juice (about 1-2 wedges)
lemon juice (about 1/2 tsp)
spices: paprika, dried celery root, cayenne pepper, salt, pepper

Chill 1-2 hours before serving. Garnish with sour cream, paprika, and shredded cucumber.

This is another great recipe for a warm day. It’s very refreshing and soothing. It will keep fresh in the frige for 2-3 days. Make sure you serve it chilled – it will taste bitter if it’s the slightest bit warm.

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So if you saw my Mother’s Day post yesterday, I mentioned this amazing salad. This is one of my new favourites and it was really easy to make. You can make the dressing days, or weeks in advanced.

It’s a chilled salad – perfect for a warm day either as lunch or a side at dinner. It can be surprisingly filling. The dressing is the real star of this recipe. I used some of it the next day on a salad with lettuce, corn, bacon bits and hardboiled eggs.

Dressing:

1/3 c grapeseed oil
1/4 tsp dijon mustard
3/4 tsp mustard
1 tbsp + 1/4 tsp agave syrup
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp lemon juice
Spices – lemon & pepper seasoning, garlic powder, mustard seed, sesame seeds, salt and pepper.

Salad:

1 bag green beans, cooked and then chilled
1 package gourmet grape tomatoes (yellow, orange, red, etc)
1/4 c quinoa

Pour as much dressing as you like over the salad and let it marinate for half an hour to an hour in the fridge so that the beans really absorbe the flavour. Serve chilled.  I used almost all of the dressing when I made this. It was a huge hit. It’s the perfect combination of sweet & tanginess.

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On Thursday, it was my mom’s birthday so we had our mother’s day and birthday dinner that night.

I made chilled cucumber & avocado soup, lemon garlic & herb chicken, quinoa mustard & agave bean salad and gluten free chocolate lavender-citrus cupcakes with shortbread cookies on top. Everything was delicious.

I’ll be posting the recipes to everything I made, but I’ll be posting them one at a time since there are so many. Happy Mother’s day everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day today with your momma’s and babies!

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Last friday’s outfit! Gosh I’m behind on these…

Dress, denim jacket: H&M
Shoes: Birkenstocks
Accessories: H&M and Handmade
Bag: Theit (it’s actually my camera bag!)

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Eep! I have so many posts I’m behind on that I made… and then forgot to post. Here’s a an outfit from a week or so ago :).

Remember how I always joke that H&M is taking over my wardrobe? Ya well, it’s not joke it’s officially happened. I can safely say that this entire outfit is 100% H&M. Note to self: start mixing it up!

And now I’m off to attempt to make french macarons for the first time. Hohboy.

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I’m so excited about this giveaway & offer guys! Not only did Sneakpeeq contact me about doing a giveaway ( a $25 credit!), but they were also generous enough to offer an exclusive discount of 20% to all Miss Kait Online readers who enter and register for a new account (which will apply to your first purchase), so really everyone wins!

If you haven’t heard of sneakpeeq yet, it’s a place where you can get discounted items  (Up to 70% off) including clothing, accessories, living, food, beauty. You can shop by category, or by curated collections of the current sales (I’m sure most of you are familiar with blogger & jewelry designer Moorea Seal – she is one of the curators!)

Here’s how it works…

So, let’s get on to the giveaway and how you can receive 20% off as well!

Rules:
1. You must enter the giveaway and register by using the link provided
2. You must be a new sneakpeeq user/create a new account through the link provided to redeem the 20% discount
3. At the moment, sneakpeeq is limited to the U.S. Therefor you must be a current resident of the U.S. to enter.

The contest will run for 2-weeks, so you have until Saturday May 12th, 2012 to enter and can enter by clicking on the image or link bellow.

Good luck & happy shopping!

Click here to enter & to receive 20% off on your first purchase!!

And congrats to LISA who won the previous giveaway, for $25 store credit to The Lovely Hunter!

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{ adapted from this recipe. }

As a tea lover scones have been something that I miss the most when it comes to being gluten free. Last week I had a meeting over afternoon tea and decided to try making some gluten free ones. I honestly couldn’t tell the difference and even my dad (who hates all gluten free foods) loved them. In fact, he ate most of them.

♥ 1 3/4 cups gluten free rice flour
♥ 1/3 cup sugar
♥ 2 teaspoons baking powder
♥ 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
♥ 1/2 teaspoon salt
♥ 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
♥ 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold butter
♥ 3/4 cup dried cranberries
♥ Zest of 1 orange
♥ Zest of 1/2 lemon
♥ 2 large eggs
♥ 1/3 cup cold milk
♥ 1 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla extract

Mix all of the dry ingredients, including the butter, together in a large bowl by hand. It will be very crumbly.

In a separate bowl whisk together the wet ingredients.

Combine the two together and either roll in to balls about an inch thick or use cookie cutters to cut shapes.

Place on a non-stick pan or on a tinfoiled pan and dust with icing sugar, a little bit of cinnamon and brown sugar.

Bake for 13-19 minutes or until they are slightly golden at 400F.

And also for all you WordPress & smartphone users out there – go download the app. I’m totally blogging from it on a 1hr bus ride out of town! It’s great :)

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Top: Jason Wu for Target
Pants & accessories: H&M
Shoes: Blowfish Shoes

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