This post contains affiliate links. No one is quite sure where mayonnaise originated from. As best as we can tell, it was being made in either France or Spain by the early 1800s, with origins before that being the stuff…
I’m not sure any part of Aldi’s inventory has gotten a bigger boost in the last ten years than its cheese lineup. What was once a small collection of blocks, shredded cheese, and slices is now this big collection that…
This post contains affiliate links. Burgers are a staple in my house. It’s fun to fire up the gas grill or the charcoal grill and toss a few patties on to serve alongside a fresh salad or some air-fried French…
When a cow is slaughtered for beef, the meat is categorized based on what part of the cow it comes from. The area nearest the head is chuck, behind that is the rib, followed by the loin, and along the…
Our hands-down favorite restaurant in our area is a Mexican place. Everything about it is great: the atmosphere, the service, and, of course, the food. Like many great Mexican places, they bring out homemade chips and salsa right off the…
This post contains affiliate links. Peanut butter and jelly is a staple in my house for snacks and school or work lunches. It’s cheap, filling, and not too unhealthy depending on what you make it with. Sometimes, for a treat…
Cheese is, in my view, one of the underrated snack foods. In most cases more of a salty or savory snack than a sweet one, cheese is simple and tasty. For people more sophisticated than me, cheeses also pair nicely…
In the interest of disclosure, I am not much of a canned soup person. You won’t find a lot of canned soup in my pantry other than the occasional can of Campbell’s clam chowder or Campbell’s tomato soup, or some…
This post contains affiliate links. At this point, I feel like a bit of an Aldi laundry detergent connoisseur. I’ve been using their various Tandil house brand laundry detergents for years. There are three of them, and they’re color coded…
This post contains affiliate links. In ancient times, humans discovered that the seeds of a mustard plant could be ground up into a paste. Over the centuries it was used in different ways, and legend has it that it was…