I hope that doesn't bring a whole new demographic to my blog. But for real, I am doing something wrong at Trader Joes. In that, I don't know what the hell to buy there. Oh sure, I have a few favorites (keep reading) but for the most part, when I walk into a Trader Joes it's… Continue reading I’m Not Doing Trader Joe Correctly
Listen, I love a good Girl Scout cookie like the rest of you but I don't have the patience to wait until February. I also know no one locally who sells Girl Scout cookies any more except for the kids that camp out at the local grocery store, so I needed a thin mint recipe… Continue reading It’s Mid-January and Homemade Thin Mints Will Save Us
I needed to add that to the title because it's a good one but it's not something I came up with. It's a play on a Dirty Dancing line and no, I won't elaborate because if you've never watched Dirty Dancing, I don't know that you can read my blog anymore. I did google "nobody… Continue reading Nobody Puts Gravy in a Corner- I Didn’t Make That Up
Isn't there? Last week someone online made a comment about how it's "soup season" and I was all.....um, soup has a season? I eat soup year-round like I am being paid to do it, so I have no idea what kind of weed they were smoking, but can I have some? What were we talking… Continue reading There’s Just Somethin’ About Soup
When I was growing up, salad bars were the shit. One would think a salad bar wouldn't be a hit with the kiddos but it wasn't the healthy stuff in the salad bar that attracted us. It was the bacon, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, and pudding. Record scratch. Pudding?? Yes, pudding. Salad bar pudding is… Continue reading Here’s To Salad Bars and Armageddon Pudding
Back in December, I wrote about how people found my blog in 2018, and one of the searches was "award-winning child cookie recipe" which is just silly. And messed up as well. But it was as I was typing this blog post that I remembered that search and thought, WHOA, WAS IT A PREMONITION… Continue reading Award-Winning Chili that God Would Approve Of
I've never met a person who doesn't like pizza. I know they are out there but I personally have not met anyone. Maybe because for the past 29 years, I have lived in the Chicago area which is loaded with pizza options so it doesn't give a person a chance not to like pizza.… Continue reading Tortilla Pizza – A Lot Sadder Than Regular Pizza But It’ll Do
