Though mainly carnivorous in nature, in all honesty, a little vegan meat substitution here and there doesn't bother me. Need proof? All ...

Ah, the Portuguese. First they gave us the man o' war, then they gave us Fado music, later Cristiano Ronaldo, and now these custard tart...

Although I haven't been there myself yet, I've known numerous people who've either lived in or visited Israel throughout the yea...

I'm not into globalism as far as politics are concerned, but I must admit, when international cultures entwine, some pretty interesting ...

I've always been fascinated with maps and geography. It's also interesting how places and groups of people got their names. I'm ...

I've been watching a bunch of 80's movies on Amazon Prime lately. What a weird decade. I mean, it was so carefree compared to tod...

I don't know that I've ever had a tikka masala dish that I've disliked. Just from Trader Joe's alone, we've seen  chi...

Like...couldn't you just make vegan cheese by getting milk from vegan cows? Y'know? Just feed the cows, like, only grass and hay ...

While Sonia and I were on the road, traveling almost every day sometimes for weeks on end, we'd often take advantage of Walmart parki...

Unfortunately, I've never had the pleasure of trying gnocchi from an Italian restaurant. Maggiano's, Buca di Beppo, Olive Garden—...

I must have walked past this little box a half a dozen times on my last Trader Joe's haul. I'd been looking for it in particular ...

Nothing like a little comfort food to get you through the coldest parts of winter. Potatoes and cheese? How could Trader Joe's One Po...

After checking out an odd pasta plus cauliflower dish from Trader Joe's recently, numerous readers mentioned this particular pasta-f...

At first, I thought Trader Joe's was substituting pasta shells completely with cauliflower in this dish. It seemed like the most Joesi...

For a dude who's been co-writing this blog for over eight years now, you think I'd have a better pulse check on the new products p...