There was a time I didn’t like cream cheese. I thought it was too rich, or maybe just thought cheese shouldn’t be in a dessert. Or something. Maybe I was just young and couldn’t appreciate it. But I love foods like cheesecake and cream cheese now. I know that a lot of us are trying […]
February is National Snack Foods Month. Like a lot of food holidays/holimonths, snacks are one food group that we’re probably eating a lot of whether its February, July, or October. The question is, what exactly is a “snack food?” Whenever I hear the word snack, I think of chips, candy, pretzels, peanuts, and several other […]
OK, I think this gets a spot on the Top 10 Weirdest Food Holidays list. We’re smack dab in the middle of Shape Up With Pickles Week, that annual celebration where we are all supposed to … what exactly? I’m assuming we’re supposed to eat them, but are we also supposed to exercise with them […]
I burned my nose on my tea kettle today. Don’t laugh. Well, OK, laugh, but only for a moment. All done? Alright, let me explain. I’ve had the tea kettle for a couple of months, and while pouring some hot water into a cup a few days ago, I got the distinct smell of burning […]
Yup, January was National Candy Month. Looks like we pretty much missed it, but there’s still a few hours left in the month so there’s a way to salvage it. Eat as much candy this weekend as you possibly can. Don’t even think about eating regular “meals” or vegetables or cereals or fruit or dairy. […]
I never have blueberry pancakes. It’s not that I don’t like them, I do. It’s just that when I get up in the morning I’m usually rushing around so I just grab a cup of tea. I know, I know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yada, yada, yada. But taking the […]
I have a weird relationship with pistachios. Not weird in the sense that we’ve been dating for years and pistachios are pressuring me to get married, but weird in the sense that I can’t stop eating them once I start. Now, this is probably true with a lot of people when it comes to nuts […]
