Leah's Life: Pearls and Oysters

Shoes Matter

So we have been enjoying our walks to school, give or take a few because of our wonderful neighbourhood construction. I love my shoes that I got from Planetshoes.com but sometimes I wear the wrong socks and I am the most blister-prone person ever. So, I got a little blister, and started wearing my clogs…

World Food Day: The world is your oyster

It is World Food Day today. What does that mean to you? My first thoughts are about the inequity of those beyond satiated and those always left hungry. The excess on one plate and emptiness on another. Then I think about the earth and what we are doing or not doing. Cambridge is piloting a…

Mom Can I Make Marshmallows? (Recipe -Video)

I recently picked up a copy of Made From Scratch because I have all of a sudden been sucked into the world of America’s Test Kitchen. My kids have been asking to cook more and more . My daughter especially wants to make food on her own. She has always cooked with me, but I…

Monsters University: Passion, Higher Education, and the Pursuit of Dreams

We don’t all fall in love with the same things, in the same way, or at the same time so why should we be expected to pursue our passions in the same way? I know that’s a little deep for a Saturday afternoon, but hear me out. It is not as heavy as it seems. …

Apple Pie Green Smoothie (Recipe)

I am not usually a fan of taking one food and making it into a soup, a sandwich, a cocktail, a savory amuse bouche, a dessert, and a granola bar flavour. This week, though, the apples are plentiful, the air is cool and for some horribly mistaken reason Whole Foods is pumping fake cinnamon scent…

Duck, Duck, Goose and Piggy in the Middle: Let’s Eat

Let’s start with the Piggy because he’s no longer in the middle. Pig is front and center on Tuesday, October 15th at Craigie on Main. If just the mention of a six course dinner with the folks who have so much more than Ideas in Food, doesn’t have you lunging for the phone to book…

Is This Still Good ?: Fresh, Stale, Best By, Expired

I am not a milk lover and seeing someone hover there nose over a milk bottle, reel at the scent that wafted out and then stretch out the vessel my way asking me to take a sniff will always be met with a look of disdain. Why is it that we gladly sniff our milk…

My Modern Housewife Morning

So this is what it comes to: Being a modern parent, housewife, freelancer. I am ready to walk out the door and walk the 1.3 miles to school to fulfill my #fit4fall goals, but while I was checking email and Facebook on my iPhone all of a sudden it is 7:20 and by the time…

Use it or Lose it: Siri at Your Service

So I know and believe that we as humans only use a small portion if our brains, and if you look at the news lately that seems quite apparent. I’m not going to tell you to join Mensa, start meditating, take a class, do the New York Times crossword puzzle or read more classics. I…

Southerners, S’mores and Something You Might Want

Summer seems like the last lonely crumb sitting on a plate by the sink on dishes that were cleared from the table hours ago and left with the hope of getting to them at some point before the light of dawn hits the kitchen counters. It wasn’t that long ago but it feels like it…

Apple Cider Vinaigrette (Recipe)

Ingredients Makes enough dressing for one well dressed or two ‘how I like it dressed’ large salads. I don’t like lightly dressed but not coated in dressing either. a clove of garlic a spoonful of Dijon mustard 2 TBSP of olive oil 1 TBSP of cider vinegar fresh thyme if you have it a pinch…

Favourite Fall Salad: Fingerling, Cheddar and Green Beans (Recipe)

This is a favourite fall salad that uses the last of the season’s green beans or wax beans. It is a salade composée or layered salad with a simple vinaigrette. So it can be dairy free for those who need to skip the cheese. My beans, sunflower seeds, and fingerlings come from Vermont farmers via…