Just a little quickie here to jump start the week: TJ's Mango Mango Mochi. As if you haven't heard the word "mango" en...

Trader Joe’s vast chip aisle has the usual potato and tortilla chips, but also goes beyond those. In this episode we share our favorit...

The good people at Almondina sent me a birthday present. It might have something to do with this fine blog we run here, but two packages ...

No spouting some good solid theology or practical wisdom gleaned from a freezer waffle today. No cow-on-highway video either. Simple, s...

This past weekend was pretty cool. We did lots of hiking, biking, and camping. It kicked off with my birthday on Friday. And I'm getti...

Are we surprised by joy or by sorrow? The world in which we live wants to surprise us by sorrow. Newspapers keep telling us about traffic...

How confident am I in my opinion of Trader Joe's Organic Mango Lemonade? So confident that I am basing my review solely on the ...

It's an all-time classic and perennial top-seller, and perhaps most impressively, the inaugural member of our blog's Hall of Fame ...

Let's take a little break from all that mango madness, shall we? It's a long summer, that's plenty of time to get to all that,...

We gave ourselves a $5 budget this time and tried to find three or four inexpensive yet interesting products that we wouldn't norma...

Let's just lay it out on the table here that I'm no bon bon expert. In fact, prior to these little guys, I don't know that I...

As I've mentioned before , I'm not a huge fan of plain old caramel corn. But if you jazz it up a bit, I'll at least give it a ...

Mango madness  is right. Or as multiple readers, commenters, and tweeters have put it: "Mango is the new pumpkin."  Just as ...

I've always liked turkey burgers. At their best, they're flavorful substitutes for traditional beef burgers, but with fewer calori...

It's freakin' June already. Which is fine, I guess. June is good enough of a month. One of the highlights of June (other than no l...

Some of you may remember our little discussion about these chips from a  podcast episode back in February . We discovered that, according ...

Warmer weather means it’s cookout season. In this episode, we share our favorite items to put on a grill, to put on things you grill, a...

Chile and lime....together at last! Oh, that is a bold-faced lie. Chili and lime have been together for years . If not married, they...

Ugh. Beets. All that talk from the South Jersey Rodgers Family department of the blog has got me sick. I hate beets. Just....no. Beets are...

Now we know where all that beet juice came from. Somehow, these little dehydrated beet chips—or "crisps," you know, in case you...