Product Review: Bertolli Cheese Tortelloni in a Tomato Cream Sauce

I’m really big on trying foods that I think I don’t like – something that I’ve eaten in the past and perhaps not been too thrilled with how it tasted, or just didn’t appreciate as much as other people seemed to – trying them again after a decent amount of time has passed, just to give them a fair shake.  I do this quite a bit, giving a few years between each try of a food… although some things, like olives, I kept trying a few times a month because they are just, by nature, something I should like!  Errr, anyway…Basically, a while [...]

Recipe Fridays: Miso Tofu

What’s that?
That, my friends, is glorious.  And vegetarian.  I think it might even be… vegan!  Did you ever think you’d hear me say those words?  Yeah, me neither. 

Maybe you remember a long time ago, I went on a Walking Feast and mentioned something we ate entitled “Miso Tofu.”  I stated I intended to recreate it at home, and I finally did.

Boy, did I.
I mean really it’s been percolating in my head for so long, that when I finally went to make it, I did it without even thinking about it.  It was so easy.  So, so, so easy.  And delicious.

Served with [...]

Counter (Booze on a Stick)

As I mentioned in my last post, it was Asian BBQ & Booze on a Stick night.  Well, Asian BBQ out of the way, we headed over to Counter to check out this ‘booze on a stick’ that SpB told us she read about somewhere…

Each order was $6 and included 3 mini popsicles – like the size if you’d used one of those tiny Dixie cups and frozen them in there.  Not bad, to be honest, though my friends reminded me that it wasn’t like we got a lot of alcohol… but hell, I’m not going to complain [...]

Homemade Pizza: Help!

Yes my friends… I made pizza. 
Sort of.  I bought Trader Joe’s pizza dough.  At 99c a ball… well, how do you say no to that?  And it turns out that rolling out the dough isn’t that hard (when you have the right equipment – I bought a French rolling pin a while back, so I do), I managed to get it pretty darn thin.  Except my surface wasn’t exactly the best for this so one edge refused to roll out thinly (you can kinda see it, top left in the pic), so I wound up just folding that [...]

The Gas Leak Continues: Response to Meat Hiatus Comments/Questions/Concerns

So, you guys all remember my Meat Hiatus?  The weekly recaps of what I ate during my meatless time?  (Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?)  And then, at the end of it all, I wrote up a list of things that I’d learned from giving up meat temporarily.  That post went up and I took off for Vegas for the weekend.
Imagine my surprise when I came back to an explosion of comments on that post… and the discovery that Grub Street wrote about my list (my second-ever appearance in Grub Street, and it’s tagged ‘flatulence’ – yes, I make [...]

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