I'm a serious latecomer to the fried pickles craze and only tried them about a month ago: New Year's Eve 2013 at Sweet Baby Ray's (one way to see out the year with a bang, right?!). Alas, I wasn't overly impressed, because theirs were too sweet for my tastes. Double alas, Dairy Free Junior High …

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I thought you guys might enjoy these wonderful yet bittersweet photos sent over by Elizabeth. (Who was joking with her kids that it looks like it's now called "Dotnick's," with the guy's head being the dot. 🙂 )

CVS sponsored my recent trip to their Rhode Island headquarters as part of an annual blogger event. All opinions in this post, however, are my own. I recently had the opportunity to attend a CVS blogger event at their Rhode Island headquarters, and learned so many things to share with you! We had a full …

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Today we're making roasted chile-lime chicken & potatoes, which is so very spicy and very good! I usually make this recipe with whole chicken but since chicken leg quarters were on sale this week I went ahead and substituted parts, …

So, I'm back! Did you notice I was gone visiting my mom in Washington all week -- and how we still sneakily kept things running all this holiday week long? Spokane Albertsons, by the way, is a bizarre parallel universe to Chicagoland Jewel -- almost the same, but not quite right, lol. Here is a …