I could’ve been more specific, but the cooked bacon bits are part of the dish. Sometimes there’s little slivers of almonds too, although those seem to get omitted from time to time. The bottom line is I get to enjoy a green bean side that hasn’t been rendered inedible with the inclusion of cream of mushroom. 

I can’t blame them, everyone knows that cilantro’s a gateway herb into Mexican cuisine. Once you have a nice taco with garnished with fresh cilantro, that weak shit that Taco Bell slings just won’t cut it anymore.

This isn’t even a fair fight for me. I can leave green bean casserole behind without a second thought.

I’m always skeptical when I hear about a really respected pizza place making their sauce with high quality canned tomatoes and little else. I feel like I always have to add seasoning (and not just salt) to crushed tomatoes in order to get the sauce to “pop” like I want it to. Even then, I’m adding a few savory…

I don’t see mango-coconut or peanut butter and banana, so this list is therefore invalid.

If I plan on eating a fruit that has an edible skin, I rinse for for roughly 15 seconds. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to rinse other fruits with peelable rinds (citrus, banana, avocado), but I don’t bother with it. There are three fruits that I consistently freeze with the skin on (persimmon, mango, and kiwi), and a…

If you ever get the craving for something both sweet and peanut buttery, try making something with powdered peanut butter and some kind of low/no-GI sweetener. I’ve been making PB “sandwich” bowls with powdered peanut butter, unsweetened almond milk, maple syrup (there are also sugar-free versions out there), and…

Anyone who’s ever shared a one bathroom apartment with someone else is probably familiar with this concept. 

Commercially prepared mustard is completely inhospitable to bacteria and spoilage, so if I eat enough honey mustard I’ll basically become immortal.

He wasn’t trying to kill these cyclists, he was trying to coal roll them. At some point during his attempt at coal rolling, he accidentally struck the cyclists. By no means should this lighten the weight of the book being thrown at the kid, but you’re making it sound like this kid is a stone-cold murderer as opposed…

I’ve been using Banza chickpea pasta for well over a year now and I think I actually like it more than dried wheat pasta. Chickpea pasta has a higher protein content and for me, the protein content is the selling point as opposed the lower carb content. I normally like making taco bowls with either rice or quinoa, but…

I like the carb balance tortillas as well, just for the added protein content and lower salt levels alone (having half of the calories of a regular flour tortilla is just a bonus). Honestly, I don’t even really care about carb content, mainly because carbs aren’t the boogey monster that some people make them out to be.…

My grade school served a lunch they called “turkey gravy” and it was instant mashed potatoes topped with a gravy that had chunks of meat in it. To expedite the eating process, I’d take the corn that was served on the side and dump it on the top of the gravy. Those KFC bowls reminded me a lot of those turkey gravy…

When I was visiting the folks last Christmas, my dad and I went to the store to get some things and I came across a Williamson’s spiced fruitcake in one of the displays. Fruitcake was always something he talked about like it was the worst thing in the world but in that moment, I realized I’d picked up that same…

After a particularly heinous backup caused by an overload of peeled carrots, I had it drilled into me that certain things were never to be put down the garbage disposal; peeled potato/sweetpotato, peeled carrot, onion skins, papery garlic husks, and corn husks.

Last year, I had a sweet potato and marshmallow casserole that I’m not sure my blood sugar has completely recovered from. I’m no stranger to cycling-induced sweet tooth, and I’d consider myself to have a sweeter tooth than most people, and I felt like I was consuming straight-up sucrose syrup. 

I recently came across the concept of microwaveable pumpkin “cakes” and I found that swapping out the sugar and half of the pumpkin puree with very ripe banana yielded a nice texture (they’re little more than canned pumpkin and egg, so they’re a tad more sponge like than, say, pumpkin pie) and had about as much…

Trail mix really isn’t a much better option than some of the junkier snack foods out there. If you’re sitting down and eating trail mix like it’s popcorn, it’s incredibly easy to eat 500 calories worth of trail mix in one sitting without realizing just how many calories you’ve eaten. Most trail mix is made up of some…

This looks absolutely delicious, thanks for sharing your experience!

I honestly don’t know what the more horrifying thing on that plate is; the unidentifiable (to me) species of rodent or the gray things that look like they may or may not have played a vital role in keeping another unidentified species alive.