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 [...]

Product Review: Dr. Oetker’s Frozen Pizza

I was recently offered the chance to try Dr. Oetker’s frozen pizza.  Dr. Oetker is a German brand/company whose claim to fame is being the best selling frozen pizza in Italy.  And now they’re available in the US.  Got that?  My boyfriend actually received the deliveries for me, and begged me to let him eat the pizza.  Without me.  Before I’d even taken photographs.  AS IF!!!  Hahaha.  His arguement was that he’d certainly eaten more frozen pizza than I had in his entire lifetime; while that may true, I’ve also eaten my fair share and just… no!  My pizza!  [...]

Product Review: Bertolli’s Frozen Pasta and Sauce, Mushroom Ravioli

It’s about time for another product review, no? 
So, as you know, I recently went to Unilever HQ and was set loose in the company store.  Before leaving me, the Lipton Brand Manager, with whom I’d been chatting all day, pointed out the frozen case and said “Oh, the Bertolli frozen pastas are actually pretty good, you should give one a try,” and I obliged.  I picked up this “pasta and sauce” – this one being mushroom ravioli in a mushroom cream sauce; skillet prepared in 10 minutes. 
I needed a quick side dish with the salmon I made on [...]

Homemade Macaroni Salad

There’s a funny story behind this recipe.
No one wanted me to make it.
I was sitting at work during a slow moment, thinking about what was in the cupboards and what I could do with things to make them more interesting.  I’d discovered the night before that for some reason, I had three cans of corn niblets; unusual if only because BF likes creamed corn and I don’t usually buy canned vegetables, nor do I recall buying three cans of any one vegetable at one time.  (Did I buy them for something specific and forget to use them?  I couldn’t tell [...]

Valentine’s Dinner

Someone recently suggested to me that because I cook [nearly] every night, cooking dinner for BF wasn’t special.  Bah, I say to this naysayer.  It’s not just about cooking, it’s about what you cook and how you approach it.  It’s special because it’s yummy, and though I possibly would if there weren’t such things as expanding waistlines, growing cholesterol, etc., we simply don’t eat like this every night. 

I love sweet white wines.  I’m not a, um, wine-y, or rather, a wine snob, wine person, connoisseur, whatever.  I chose this because I liked it, plain and simple; it didn’t get [...]

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