Here at Bitchin’ Lifestyle we love empowering women and Jaden Hair is that type of lady. An Asian-style chef, Jaden is not your average blogger. Hair, whose award-winning blog Steamy Kitchen focuses on ‘fast, fresh and simple enough for tonight's dinner’ cooking, is also a food columnist, a photographer, a TV Chef, a wife and mother of two boys. In the midst of all these wonderfully exciting endeavours, she’s also published The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook that showcases tons of easy Asian recipes that even someone who just boiled water for the first time could conjure up. What we love most about Jaden is her witty sense of humour and her ability to make each recipe charming and sincere.

Bitchin’ Lifestyle had the honour of chatting with Jaden about how she got started, how she manages it all, and most importantly, how she may just have to give up some household chores to make more time for new projects.

Whether it’s an over-complicated handshake or tripping over your own feet in the mall, awkward moments can leave you feeling embarrassed and socially mal-developed for hours afterwards. The good news is there’s a graceful way out of almost any embarrassing scenario, so take these tips and become a pro at diffusing life’s awkward instances.

Here's our first installment of Nadvice. In this quickie, Nadia G will be showing you how to de-germ garlic.

Valentine’s Day spending is expected to reach an astounding $14.7 billion this year. That’s a whole lot of flowers, crappy chocolates and ugly teddy bear purchases for one day. Surprisingly, even though individuals are well aware that the holiday is purely consumer-driven by nature, they usually spend about $100 on gifts each year anyways.

I happen to be on the Anti-Valentine’s day boat – showing the love on one specific day when there are 364 more days to go is ridiculous to me. More importantly, I don’t think true happiness comes in a box (unless, in that box is a mini Caribbean island, named after me.)

I normally don’t celebrate the holiday – not since college when all those chicks with boyfriends flaunted their love telegrams & roses.

Bitchin' Kitchen teamed up with The Social Woman this week to offer followers a chance to win The Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook. All you have to do is enter your recipe fails in the comment section and Poof! Your entered!

What is The Social Woman? The Social Woman, is a community for Canadian women looking to expand their social circle by connecting online and meeting offline at member-organized events. People look for love online all the time, why not look for your best-friend? On The Social Woman you can do just that - without worrying about a creepy bald guy waiting for you in a dark alley.

The network also allows members to find out about or post local events, talk about women’s issues, read reviews on products and services and benefit from special member-only offers. SW has a strong presence in Montreal and Toronto and is expanding across Canada.  Ladies, if the friends you already have suck, there's no need to spend your Friday nights alone - join free today!