Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
First, let’s get one thing straight: summer is ice cream season in my house. Miss me with it from October to May but come June? Oh it’s game on, baby. I drag out my ice cream machine like I’m unearthing a sacred relic and proceed to make flavour combos that would make Ben and Jerry …
Look, I’m not saying this frozen maple coffee drink will replace your $7 cold brew habit but I’m not, not saying that either. Because once you try this, it becomes pretty hard to justify handing your money over to a coffee chain that can’t even spell your name right. This ridiculously easy frozen maple coffee …
This Spinach & Chickpea Stuffed Sweet Potato with Maple Tahini Sauce recipe has become a weekly staple in my home. Its brilliance was unmistakably highlighted last night when, given the choice between dining out after the hockey game or coming home to these stuffed sweet potatoes, my boyfriend opted for the latter. To him, no …
Have you ever popped a cranberry in your mouth? They’re awful. Truly horrid little things. Sour and bitter, they remind me a little of myself after enduring 2020. Yet, despite the obstacle of having terrible flavour, the lowly cranberry still manages to be the star in many stellar recipes like these Cranberry Streusel Muffins. So …
I had never tasted homemade marshmallows until I was well into my 30s, but the moment the light as air sweetness hit my lips, I knew. I had been conned. Marshmallows that you buy, you know the ones in a bag that line the bottom shelf in a grocery store are sad, pathetic imposters. The …
After eight months eating my way through a pandemic, my baking cupboard is a little disordered with a little bit of this and a little bit of that leftover from previous recipes. In a quest to leave no sweet behind, I made these Kitchen Sink Brownies. So the most important thing to remember about these …
Sometimes breakfast is just breakfast, and sometimes it’s a work of art. Case in point, this recipe for Overnight Skillet Raspberry French Toast. There is something about baking in a skillet that is just genuinely beautiful. I make my banana bread in my skillet, and this Skillet Berry Crumble is beautiful to serve, but also …
This recipe for Banana Walnut Pancakes with Caramelized Banana Topping is like a tale of two bananas. One is brown and overripe and the other is full of hope, with nary a mark on it’s yellow flesh. You’ll need both for this recipe but it’s worth it. I personally can’t remember the last time I …
