Happy Thursday and congratulations to Nicole who won the Peanut Butter Lover’s giveaway! There are two containers of PB2 en route to her home in Michigan as I type this. I hope that she shares what she makes with us!
Last week, my current home hosted the Super Bowl and the Phoenix Open and Phoenix gave all of our tourists a big, fat middle finger by being (relatively) cold, rainy, and foggy… for the whole week. Now we are back to normal, which is WAY TOO HOT for me already… clearly I live in the wrong state.
For those of you who are buried in snow, quit your whining and do something awesome with it. Like the best snowman ever or this giant Star Wars equivalent of Mt. Rushmore, out of snow.
According to Epicurious, “Gluten Free” is the most annoying dietary consideration, 42% of their readers are cooking 7 days a week, and a disturbing 15% of people are eating food IN THE BATHROOM.
I assume that 15% of people are supporters of Senator Tillis, who has recently been advocating for restaurant employee’s rights to not wash their hands. Jon Stewart summed up pretty much everything there was to say on the matter.
I found out that my Hollywood Hubby (Timothy Olyphant) makes his wife cappuccino with latte art I immediately shared with Mr. Eats how lucky she was. Although, Mr. Olyphant discourages instagraming my dinner pictures, so maybe we aren’t soul mates after all.
While Tim Olymphant is eating fried chicken, Beyonce wants us all to go vegan with her vegan delivery service. It involves a 22-day vegan challenge and honestly, if I can do a whole 30, I’m sure I can kick the crap out of 22 days of veganism. But am I going to pay for it to be delivered to my door? Probably not.
What I would pay for, sadly, is the new QUESALUPA at Taco Bell! It’s a cheese-stuffed chalupa shell and, unfortunately, it is only available back in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Which is super unfair. Once I factor in the $400 plane ticket, it becomes an awfully expensive chalupa.
Starbucks is going to start slinging coconut milk nationwide starting Feb 17th, so get your mugs ready!
And of course, Oreos released their new red velvet flavor on Feb 2nd and I picked up a package to be your guinea pig. I will preface this by saying that I was actually not that excited for red velvet oreos. Much like actual red velvet cake, I feel like I could just eat the chocolate version and save myself the food coloring…
But I was put in my place by some of my closest friends so I felt obliged to pick up a pack and give them a try.
The verdict? They are good, but they don’t taste THAT different from a regular Oreo… but they definitely didn’t taste like a regular Oreo.
The chocolate isn’t as dark as the regular Oreo cookie, so the chocolate flavor is definitely muted, which meant it was a winner for Mr. Eats who is not a huge fan of Oreo’s regular cookie. While the filling was creamier and less grainy than the standard Oreo filling, it didn’t have a strong cream cheese “tang” to it.
Granted I’ve only eaten one cookie so far, but I’m sure I’ll “test” more later tonight. You know, for science. If you have tried them, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below!
Now, time to await Oreo’s next creation: THE S’MOREO. That’s one Ill definitely have to try.
I’ll just watch this owl on a loop while I wait…
that was a smooth as silk transition from eating food in the bathroom to advocating for washroom rights: you are a WORDSMITH this week!
coconut milk at starbucks! color me excited: i wonder how my chai would taste with coconut milk…good, i bet.
that chart made me remember something: remember when everyone was super annoyed in the nineties with Gwynnie’s macrobiotic diet? like no one had ever heard of it and it was SOOO WEIRD and LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE NOW AS A NATION. just saying…p.i.o.n.e.e.r.
i was going to ask you about the red velvets because same: didn’t think they would taste different. if anything, they’d be fun to mess with if you were making an oreo crumb crust or something: a fun color change, mostly.
Seriously – I’m going to have to try that coconut milk chai latte because YES. PLEASE.
and yes, re: red velvet oreos. Their pretty looks were my favorite part about them.