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Voting is now open in Trader Joe's customer choice awards! Although they've reduced the number of categories this year, I still had a hard time picking an overall favorite. It might be an outlier, but I had to go with the frozen Garlic Naan. After missing it for so many…
January to June 2021 Because Seriously No One Can Process More than That Right Now
Time once again to look ahead to books hitting shelves in 2021. But to keep things manageable we're just looking at the first half of the year. I call it my Beg Borrow Steal TBR, the books I am dying…
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If you're a fan of small town, slow burn, second chance romance, pick up Second Chance on Cypress Lane.
Dakota is back on the Outer Banks after her TV news career is torched by scandal. She's picking up the pieces and trying to keep the reason for her…
Trader Joe's Stroopwafel Cake Mix might be my fave new product of the 2020 Holiday Season. The one I would seriously like to see show up at other times of the year. I mean, they carry the little stroopwafel cookies all year, and bust out the big ones in a tin for Christmas, so why…
Trader Joe's already has multiple flavors of cashews and pecans available year round, but for the holidays they dropped Caramel Coffee Cashews and Cocoa Chile Spiced Pecans. I love both cashews and pecans, but between these two, Trader Joe's Caramel Coffee Cashews are the clear winner.
There's just a tiny hint of bitterness from…
Rollercoaster is the only word I can think of to describe my reading life in 2020. You'd think that in a year when you can't go to concerts, sporting events, the movies or really even restaurants, I should have been burning through books. But reading was hard!
I had slumps, I read slower than…
If you're just getting your holiday baking underway, don't forget the pups in your life. In addition to the pet advent calendars that are a Trader Joe's tradition, this year they've also got Trader Joe's Dog Biscuit Mix.
The basic recipe asks you add oil and water to the mix, but they've also got some…
If you've rolled through Trader Joe's in the last week, you know they're in overdrive on the holiday items. Even my latest trip, post Thanksgiving, was mostly for holiday stuff, not staples. Among them, Trader Joe's Pfeffernüsse Cookie Mix.
Usually, pfeffernüsse is too anise-flavored for me, and a black licorice fan I am not.…
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The Flip Side by James Bailey has so many elements of the best rom-coms -- a memorable meet cute, the search, the airport dash, supportive friends, but the big thing its missing is an MC to root for.
After a disastrous wedding proposal, which also causes him to lose…
The biggest thing Trader joe's Bulgogi Beef Fried Rice with Kimchi has going for it is its convenience. You literally open the bag, dump it in a hot non-stick skillet and cook it for 7 minutes. But that's about all I can say for it.
As someone who makes fried rice a lot --…
