May 5, 1999, I was sitting in a now defunct Chi-Chi's restaurant in State College, PA with some friends and acquaintances after classes....

While not quite completely in love with the analogy, it does make the point so I'm just gonna roll with it.  If my house were a prison, ...

In addition to 80's movies, I'm also an appreciator of fine post-apocalyptic cinema—not just influential films like The Road and M...

Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Bar Thins are a small, quick, easy, simple fun little treat. No rocket surgery here. So le...

Sonia and I have lived in four different states since the inception of this blog. We traveled the country full-time with our two little do...

Time in 2020 seems different than time in any other year I've been around for. Literally, it seems that this year has been going on fo...

Mornings can be tough, especially these past few months. Wake up after another hot summer night to a hot summer day, doing the same thing...

Ladies and gentlemen, friends, commoners, I present to you King Buttercup. There he is, holding the new(ish) Trader Joe's Dark Chocola...

"Crackers" really isn't the first word that would come to mind upon sampling one of the new Trader Joe's Everything but...

Always gotta be on the lookout for a new barbecue sauce around these parts. Always, but especially this past spring and summer, because, w...

July is such a long month. After the Fourth, it's pretty anticlimactic: no big holidays or festivities to look forward to. Sonia and I...

There's some pretty ridiculous things to read out there these days. Most comment sections of anything, depending on your definition of...

Although I've long been a champion of hummus, at least when served with warm pita bread or as a condiment alongside other delicious M...

A certain "source for authentic Latino cuisine" has been in the news lately, and without mentioning its name or getting into di...

Never heard of chess pie before. Thought maybe it was like a Rosca de Reyes but with plastic chess pieces baked into it instead of a plas...

Ah, the good old rule of three. If you don't know it, you know it. Anything grouped as three tends to be more memorable and make more ...

Gotta love it when a plan just falls into your lap. My lovely bride and I picked up the new Trader Joe's Honey Aleppo Sauce at least...

Man, 2020 has been quite a year so far, and we're not even halfway through it yet. Has the whole world gone nuts? Apparently, ev...