There's a lot of perks to being one of the world's foremost amateur-hack foodie reviewer of all things Trader Joe's. I love when...

I bet Miles Standish, John Alden and the gang didn't have anything like this at the first Thanksgiving. They were just figuring out how ...

A while back, Russ reviewed the Candy Cane Joe Joe’s . Those things are so popular, they have their own Facebook fan page with nearly 2,000...

Nathan sure was right a few posts back . We really do like our desserts, and probably from the looks of me, a little too much. I guess it...

Hooray it's fall. That means: ever encroaching dusks, cooler temps, leaves changing, playoff baseball, football on TV at least four nigh...

On the surface, I seemed like a fairly normal kid growing up in most respects.* Let's see...loved Nintendo, did alright enough in school...

I'm not sure who came up with the idea of onion rings. Why not fried carrots or broccoli? In Asian restaurants, you'll find vegetabl...

You probably don't need me to tell you that life doesn't always go as planned. Same holds true even when you go on vacation. Last Th...

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, in addition to a corporate prayer at church and a little personal time reflecting on the events of that da...

Sandy looooooooves blogs. Loves them. I have no idea how many she follows but her Google Reader feed is usually so filled with posts and art...

It's not particularly easy to slip a sub-par Mexican dish past us. Sonia's a full-blooded first-generation Mexican-American wh...

Well, friends, today is the one year anniversary of the inception of this blog. Thank you all for reading, for joining our blog, liking us o...

All purpose baking mix. You can use this for any and all purposes you can possibly think of. Use it as engine lubricant, throw it on the sli...

In a previous post , it was established that I have a fear of carrot juice. I've never been a fan of the original V-8 or any other veget...

Wait, wait, what? I thought this was a Trader Joe's blog reviewing Trader Joe's products. Where's the "Trader" charact...

Ah, beer. Probably like most folks ,I fairly distinctly remember my very first sip of brew. I was seventeen, off to college (I was a young...

I know this is about a week or so late, but Happy Fourth of July, everyone. Since it was actually a fairly rainy night and we were beat from...

"Kefir" is actually pronounced "Keh-FEAR," although so many people use the popular mispronunciation "KEY-fur,...