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There are some themes for the 52 week cooking challenge where I have absolutely no idea what I want to do, like Week 4's theme - 24 hour...

Week 3 of the 52 week cooking challenge brought something new into our kitchen - Russian cuisine! While we've had Russian food before at...

One of the more interesting-sounding things to arrive in the Trader Joe's freezer case last fall (and still available today) was a box o...

When I hear miso, my first thought is soup (which amuses me, since the majority of the miso mentions on this blog have nothing to do with...

I unofficially took part in Reddit's 52 week cooking challenge beginning in 2014, and I stopped partway through 2017 because I just wasn...

Where has 2019 gone?! Despite our best intentions to post more this year, we can count the number of posts on two hands. Hopefully next year...

The last couple of months of the year at Trader Joe's are appetizer season, when they offer tons of options for Thanksgiving appetizers,...

Reviews of Trader Joe's products aren't usually that long or time-consuming, yet somehow it's November and we haven't posted...

Trader Joe's is flush with fall seasonal products right now, lots of pumpkin and Halloween treats, and even though I'm trying to cut...

I stopped doing the 52 week cooking challenge in late 2017, mostly because it didn't fit our lifestyle at the time, but also because it ...

I'm generally a big fan of the Indian food at Trader Joe's, as that's the section where you can often find some of the more inte...

My favorite recipe for making coleslaw (is it coleslaw or cole slaw anyway?) is the one I found years ago on the Budget Bytes site in the re...

So many days, it is so tempting to just pull up a delivery app, place an order, and breathe while we wait for dinner to arrive. After puttin...

We were on a Whole Foods trip a while back looking at snacks and happened upon something we had never seen before but sounded interesting --...

It's been ages since we've made a new recipe from scratch, between the dietary restrictions of pregnancy and my difficulty in moving...