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 …
The back to school flurry and the reddening leaves mean one thing: hockey season is approaching. It actually means many things are approaching, like winter and clearing snowy driveways and nostrils that stick together and dammit where is that second mitten? For many Canadians and Americans whose second home is the rink, winter equals hockey. …
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 …
There are curled, dried up maple leaves on my driveway this morning and I can hardly smell sunscreen on my kids anymore. There’s been no sticky burnt marshmallow crust in my hair for almost a week and every store I go to has aisles full of sullen children crying over pencil crayon displays. Summer’s all …
Today Life in Pleasantville is happy to welcome Theresa Albert, a Toronto nutritionist. Theresa shares her advice for parents who may be stuck in the BBQ hotdog and potato chip rut of summer and are looking for a “healthy re-boot” come back-to-school time. – Ed. Dear whoever is in charge, Please help me through another …
