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...

"Oh, that Chipotle is so HOT right now!" And I mean that as a double entendre. First of all, it seems to be very "in" ri...

There are some definite signs to the seasons here in Pittsburgh. In our neighborhood, one of the surest signs of summer is the ice cream tru...

About a year ago, I decided I was in love with mochi, the Asian ice cream you can eat with your hands. I was so blindly in love with it, th...

Yes, that's right, I'm going to write a review about a can of beans. Why on earth would I do that? There's actually a few differ...

Perhaps you've seen one of our write-ups from The Daily Meal* that have circulated around the Interwebs to sites like Huffington Post ...

I think the first time I ever had tofu, it was in an Asian restaurant. They served a salty miso soup with mysterious little white cubes that...

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...

There's a greater sense of authenicity when one uses chopsticks while eating any kind of Asian cuisine. It's as if the experience ga...

So, let's continue the inadvertent Mexican fiesta we have going on here from our last post , shall we? A few weeks, maybe a month ago...

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...

This past week, Sandy and I had the honor of helping host some friends of ours from Mexico City as they visited and worked with our church f...

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...

This entry kind of goes as a companion to my post on Monday about Trader Joe's Organic 100% Natural Fruit Wraps . We'll be doing som...

Question our food knowledge, wisdom and experience as much as you want, but while both Nathan and I are proudly self-proclaimed foodie-hacks...

I used to love those fruit roll-ups that were so popular in the 80's and 90's. They were the epitome of "fun food." And t...

Somewhere in middle America, in some dank, dark basement full of sharp kitchen utensils and 60's memorabilia, a narrow beam of hazy sunl...

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