Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Every baker needs a good sugar cookie recipe in their toolbox. Besides being fairly easy to make, they can be cut into shapes and customized for every holiday imaginable. The plain cookies also present a blank canvas for kids or adults to get creative with icing, candy and sprinkles. I’ve made plenty of sugar cookie …
Our family loves winter. Snow is awesomely-wonderfully-fun and versatile. You can use it for snowball fights, skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, and snow angels. But most importantly, you can use it to build. From the time our son was barely able to walk, my husband Dave was out there building forts (Who’s the bigger kid, eh?) Afraid …
I am not zen. I live by the work hard, play harder philosophy. Zen moments—that is moments where I am in the moment—are few and far between. Typically when I’m working I’m dreaming of playing and vice versa. The consequence is that I’m slightly frenetic. (I can hear the sniggering from here of those that …
DISCLAIMER: I’m only baby crazy. I am not having a baby any time soon. You can breathe easy again, Mom. In October, I did my favourite thing ever and stuck my feet in a set of stirrups in a gynaecologist’s office and then I had a little polyurethane plastic popped into my uterus (yay). I’m not sure …
This tasty treat came about one day after I rummaged through the fridge and found leftover chicken, some puff pastry, and a block of cream cheese. Sometimes the best snacks come about when you raid the fridge to see what you can find. A spiced cheese topping bakes right into the puff pastry, adding loads …
It seems that Hollywood must be bored with telling us all the things about our external appearance that we need to fix, because they’ve now started to focus on things that you can’t see. First we needed to get botox, and fillers, and hair extensions and liposuction, and tummy tucks, and breast implants etc etc …
It’s a weird world we live in, this age of technology. With the connectivity of Facebook you can keep in touch with people that you might normally lose track of, and it can bring back things you’d never expect. The other day I made this tarts and stashed them in the fridge where my 19 …
Is there anything more perfect than an apple? One of nature’s most perfect gifts, the apple is delicious for a snack, baked in a dessert or served with meal. Along with it’s versatility, it’s also highly portable and stays fresh longer than many other fruits. With over 7,500 varieties grown around the globe though, how …
