Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
First off, a little disclaimer: whipping up this Beef and Beer Stew doesn’t come with a 100% guarantee of romance. There’s always a chance your sweetheart might be battling a headache or perhaps you’re in a doghouse, no savoury stew could help with. However, I’m here to tell you that the likelihood of sparking some …
Picture this: it’s a crisp fall evening and you are getting ready to settle in under a blanket and watch your favourite TV show or movie. Or maybe you prefer YouTube videos of the cute little goat knocking down his playmates ; regardless – I don’t judge you, you don’t judge me. Perhaps you would …
There are certain recipes that I simply can’t see the point of making only enough for one meal. Recipes like Marinara and Meatballs or Banana Bread just scream to be doubled, or tripled for meals on another day. If it can be frozen, then I always make enough for another day, like this Big Ass …
Fall is just around the corner and that means a pumpkin extravaganza is about to descend on us. Pumpkin pie recipes will abound and people will lose their minds over pumpkin spice lattes that have no actual pumpkin in them. I’m a hot apple cider girl myself and love to take a cup along with …
Sometimes I get weird heart palpitations. I hate them. They scare me. They’re called premature ventricular contractions or “PVCs” and they’re fairly benign as far as cardiac events go, but I don’t know too much about them because I stopped listening to the doctor after he said “Your heart” and “isn’t beating properly” in the …
With four kids under 13, I try to keep the extracurricular activities to one or two per child at any given time. But when you multiply that by the number of kids in my family, it still means we are out during dinner time multiple times a week. On these days, dinner is served in …
I can just about guarantee we’re not going to be gifted with an Indian Summer this year; I can smell fall in the air already. The trees have begun to turn colours here and there, and while we had a *SURPRISE* hot couple of days finally, in the evening the temperatures are chilly. School starts …
Five years ago, had I come across photos like the ones I now post of my kids’ school lunches, I’d probably think “Behind this lunch is an over-achieving mother, trying to keep up appearances.” Because, COME ON. Who has the time or energy to make school lunches everyday—let alone lunches containing all four food groups …
