While spending a good amount of time in the car on our road trip a couple weeks ago, Taste Tester and I decided to count how many states we’d been to. After tallying him at 34 and me at 25, we decided to add another new one to the list: Arkansas. It was only a […]

Sorry for the little hiatus - but I have a good excuse: Taste Tester and I got engaged!
We went on a midwestern road trip visiting Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri where we visited our friends at the Askinosie Chocolate factory.
Want proof? Here’s me in Iowa. (We don’t have corn like that in NJ):

Obviously, I […]

Ahh, apples. They become a staple snack for me once fall hits. I love em, but I love em even more when they’re slathered in chocolate and peanut butter!
P.B. Loco is a brand I’ve long since been curious about. I finally purchased two of their jars including the Raspberry White Chocolate and the Coco Banana. […]

I owe The Cheesecake Factory a big thank you.
I was never a fan of cream cheese and therefore disliked cheesecakes. I’m not sure why, it was just one of those things I never ate growing up and continued to avoid as I got older. But while dining out with a friend at The Cheesecake […]

I can think of at least three brands of peanut butter cups off the top of my head. There’s the obvious, Reeses PB Cup, then the Newman’s Own PB Cup and these bad boys. It’s a set of 12 that includes white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate and an “inside out” cup. I came across […]

I don’t get to bake with nuts too often these days (peanuts are not a nut- they’re a legume!) because my boyfriend / primary taste tester can’t eat them.
But he’s out of town. Hehe…
I’m not sure if I have a favorite nut or not. I probably eat pecans the most. I put them in […]