I recently received a box of Go Veggie!’s entire vegan line of alterna-cheese products to test out (thank you Go Veggie!). This is a brand my local grocery carries, but they only have the Lactose free line (it has been my experience that unlike gluten intolerance, the average person has never heard of casein intolerance […]
Product Review
Mix It Up Monday: Baked Lemon Pasta With Chicken and Pastamore’s Lemon Garlic Orzo
One of my great pleasures as a food blogger is the opportunity to try products that I otherwise would never have access to. A while back I was offered the chance to try out some of Pastamore’s gourmet gluten free pasta line from J.D. Gourmet. I got three (so there will be more recipes to […]
Review: Lean Cuisine Chef’s Pick Culinary Roundtable
I make no secret of the fact that I am a food snob. Or the fact that I really like to eat. So when I think of Lean Cuisine, the first word that comes to mind historically is DISAPPOINTED. They never ever look as good as the picture on the box. The portion sizes are […]
Vegetarian Stuffed Shells with Classico Creamy Spinach and Parmesan
So it’s National Pasta Day! How cool is it that we have a day for that? So of course I had to feature, you know, pasta. I got invited by Classico to try out their new Creamy Spinach and Parmesan Pasta Sauce, along with a fabulous pasta pot, a swanky new Oxo grater, and some […]
Review: Classico Light Alfredo
Light alfredo sauce sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? I mean, everything about alfredo sauce is rich and delicious. My prior attempts to make it lighter just didn’t have the right texture or taste, so I admit my skepticism when Classico Light Alfredo sauce came up as an option for the Foodbuzz Tastemakers Program. I […]
Review: Marzetti Simply Dressed
Foodbuzz is going to think I’m a bad food blogger. I was supposed to post this by the 20th. But, well, I live in a small town and despite the generous coupon for a free bottle of Marzetti Simply Dressed salad dressing as part of the Tastemaker’s program , I had a devil of a time […]
Sargento Cheese Tasting
Boy do I have egg on my face. This was supposed to go up by the 15th and I totally mis-scheduled it. Oops. Sorry Foodbuzz! In any event, via the Foodbuzz Tastemakers program, I got chosen to receive a $25 gift card to put on a cheese tasting with Sargento cheese. How awesome is that? […]
Gluten Free Friday: Round Up
I had intended to post my gluten free adaptation of my favorite poppyseed chicken recipe today, but it turned out…incredibly bland. So that one absolutely needs more work before I release it to the world. The original version takes a lot of its flavor from the canned cream of chicken soup. The gluten free alternative […]
Birds Eye Chef’s Favorites: Creamy Primavera Risotto
I am full of so much food blogger fail the last two weeks. Y’all, I swear I’ve been cooking. I’ve even been cooking new stuff. But I’ve also been in the middle of launching my latest book (a YA paranormal called Red–more on that here, if you’re interested), and almost breaking my nose (more on […]
Lay’s Dip Creations: Review
So my latest Tastemaker opportunity from Foodbuzz was for Lay’s Dip Creations. I’ve had these for quite a while, but like everything else, when we listed the house for sale, stuff got put out of sight and I can no longer find squat. So it took me a while to actually use them. There are […]