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Have a Happy Healthy Christmas! Peace and Peace On Earth!
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12/24/2017ALDI – O’Donnells Caramel Cream – Food Review
12/23/2017
December 23, 2017
With the year-end holidays comes sleeping in and slow morning wakeups with a little spiked coffee. At least that’s the tradition around this house. The spike in the coffee usually takes the form of some Irish cream.
Here’s a new variation of the holiday tradition first reviewed here, O’Donnells Original Irish cream, What could go wrong by adding some caramel flavor to the Irish cream? Absolutely nothing. For me, this is even better than the original. The caramel flavor is not overpowering. In fact it’s barely noticeable in the coffee. But for whatever reason it tends to smooth out the beverage even more. Very enjoyable. Price $8.99
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Trader Joe’s – Bourbon Barrel Aged Coffee – Whole Bean – Food Review
12/23/2017
December 23, 2017
Rolling barrels down the road is one of those things kids do. Rolling barrels down the road with coffee beans in them is not something kids do. That’s just because kids don’t have any coffee beans. Rolling coffee beans in a barrel seems to be the basic mechanism how this coffee was created. Coffee beans are gently rolled around in old empty barrels used for aging bourbon. Well, at least that’s what the package claims.
The coffee itself is fairly good. This is the first Mexico-grown coffee I’ve had, and it’s promising. Now, the flavor added to the coffee from rolling around in an old bourbon barrel is up for personal interpretation. It’s not a particularly bad flavor and it’s not a particularly good flavor. It’s an earthy flavor that’s noticeable, but not obtrusive. Perhaps a real shot of bourbon in the coffee would make it complete?
To follow up on the spiked coffee theme, I made due with what was on hand, adding some O’Donnells Caramel Cream to the coffee. Ummm, so good! The little extra flavor from the barrels, the coffee and the “cream” came together in a very smooth cup of holiday joy. Price, $9.99, 10 ounce can.
Trader Joe’s – Zambia AA Small Lot Coffee – Whole Bean – Food Review
12/23/2017
December 23, 2017
Here’s another lighter roast coffee from Trader Joe’s. A nice aroma permeates the air when the bag is first opened. The beans have a medium brown color indicative of a medium roast. While brewing in the coffee press, the coffee looks flat. There are few oils and carbon dioxide bubbles on top of the brew.
This is a smoother cup of coffee than the other TJ lighter roasts reviewed here. However there’s still some roughness around the finish. This is a fairly good tasting coffee and drinkable black. Although, considering this is the holidays, I’ve been adding a little Irish cream lately, which as always makes coffee better. While a better and less bitter lighter roast from Trader Joe’s, this wouldn’t be my choice as an everyday drinker. If you’re a Starbucks drinker, a couple of weeks with this would be a good pallet cleanse.
One reason to not buy this coffee is the bag. The bag has one of those small resealable narrow slits on the wide side of the bag near the top making it difficult to reach in to get the beans. Think of the mouth of a stingray. Price, $8.99, 12 ounce bag.
WPC – Ascend – Photography
12/20/2017
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Net Neutrality Results – 7% loss in page views.
12/20/2017
December 20, 2017Net neutrality lost last week, as expected, and so did this blog. See previous post here. Although unscientific, for the two days I had the WordPress “net slow down” simulation plugin enabled, there was roughly a 7% drop in page views compared to the two days before and the two days after. I strongly suspect that page views would’ve dropped even further if I had kept the “slow down” simulation active for more days.
If you’re a blogger or a reader that wants to keep the internet alive with different and varied content, the battle for net neutrality continues. The alternative to a neutral internet is to make the internet a place where you pay to see even more advertisements and limited content that someone else decides is what you like.
https://www.battleforthenet.com
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Trader Joe’s – Parmesan Cheese – Food Review
12/20/2017
December 20, 2017
Make no mistake about it, this is a hard cheese. Grating it can be a grating experience.
For me, this is a cheese better eaten by itself than used in recipes. As noted above, the cheese is hard and will give both your knife and jaw a workout. The cheese has a nice, but mild, parmesan flavor to it. A glass of wine is a nice accompaniment.
Surprisingly, as a grated cheese, I actually prefer the pre-grated sprinkle on stuff. Not only is the pre-grated cheese easier to use, but it has more flavor pop than this cheese. The cheese was used as a topping to flavor pastas and salads for this review.
Now, if you’re trying to impress your significant other with a home cooked meal as Billy Joel’s Italian Restaurant plays in the background, grating this at the table is the way to go. And as above, an extra bottle of red is a nice accompaniment.
price $5.99 per pound calories, 110 per ounce (28g)
Marzipanstollen – Food Review – Trader Joe’s
12/20/2017
December 20, 2017
Don’t open this in the presence of law enforcement. There’s enough powered sugar loosely coating this cake to make your kitchen look like a coke lab.
The cake part is a little dry and tasteless. The raisins are sweet and moist. The marzipan and small pieces of candied fruit are even sweeter. When you get enough fillings with the cake in one bite, it all comes together in the mouth. While this cake is not bad, unless you really like this kind of cake it might be better to save your calories for something else.
Price $3.49
Calories 340 per 1/6 slice of cake
Net Neutrality – One more day to save it.
12/13/2017December 13, 2017
Tomorrow the FCC votes to end net neutrality. You can help stop that vote. Click on the link below to see how.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
As an analogy, look at it this way. If you buy a pair of shoes, should the shoe company be able to tell you what day of the week you can wear them? That’s basically what the FCC wants to happen with the internet. You can help stop that.
What is net neutrality? Net neutrality is a current policy which prevents your internet service from controlling how the internet is used. The FCC wants to end that policy, thus allowing your cable or phone company to control what and how internet content gets to your phone or your home. You pay for your internet service, why should someone tell you how you’re able to use it? Companies which send internet content pay to use their internet service to send that content. Why should someone be able stop or slow down what they pay for?
WPC – Cheeky – Photography
12/09/2017
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