When I was in high school there was this bar in Broad Ripple, Indiana that was a coffee shop by day, bar by night. It was called Cafe Espresso.
We thought the place was totally hip and cool, and we discovered a secret in the fall of my senior year of high school — if [...]

What is with all the Mojito talk lately? I know I’ve been out of the bar hopping scene since college, but I finally had one of these drinks I’ve heard so much about last weekend. Everyone else at the party raved about the refreshing taste, but warned me that you must like minty drinks to [...]

The folks at Wateroos recently sent me some samples of their products to review. When I first read their pitch, I didn’t even respond to the email because I thought “I have stainless steel sippy cups that I can fill with my own water. No chemicals. No waste. No problem.”
When they sent [...]

Saw a commercial for this new fruit-plus-vegetable juice and figured it might be a good buy for our vegetable-hating son. But would he drink it? Am I the lamest mother ever for trying to sneak in grape-flavored carrots?
Who cares!? He liked it!
We tried the grape flavor. Tasted just like strong purple grape juice to me, [...]

I can’t live without my Combi Soho stroller. It is lightweight, durable, easy to fold and set up again, and has a strap so I can throw it over my shoulder quickly and easily when the stroller isn’t practical, like when you are going through the turnstiles or using the escalator in DC metro stops. [...]

With only 35 Flexpoints to use a week, those on Weight Watchers must make wise decisions on how to blow those points. Personally, I like to use the Flexpoints, (when I’m being good and counting) on BEER and other delicacies of the midwestern palette, which is how I discovered Beck’s Light.
Now, I’m not [...]

Four Props and Pans team members were recently sent samples of TrueBlue Blueberry Juice. They all tried it but did they all like it? Keep reading to find out!

When I received an email from TrueBlue asking me if I would try their product and review it, I was happy to oblige.
A few days later, I [...]

I drink entirely too much Diet Coke. It is a problem. I admit it. You see, I am a woman who woke up one morning, decided to quit smoking, and did so. But Diet Coke? It is my one true vice, and I don’t know if I could ever give it up entirely.
Now there is [...]

There aren’t a lot of reasons to order mail order gourmet coffee other than to get something you can’t get anywhere else. I became acquainted with Boca Java a couple of years ago and have always been impressed by the quality of their roast (never bitter or over-roasted) and by their variety of flavors. [...]

One thing I learned from my last review is to not write it immediately after the tasting process. Especially if you are tasting thoughtfully and thoroughly like I have done for you. If you do, you might leave out the actual name of the wine and the prices. So today I start with the [...]

There are many things I loved about Target’s boxed wine before I ever tasted them: a) It’s wine. b) It’s sold at Target. Those are two big pluses already. Beyond that, I like the concept of boxed wine.
My husband and I are wine snobs, actually. Most everything on our wine [...]

I love coffee. Plain coffee with a spot of half and half, pronounced haaaf and haaaf where I live. No sugar. I’ve never gone in for all those girly coffees with the cutsie names and the fattening additives. Just gimme a coffee ‘regulah’ no sugar, please.
Until today. Today my mind has been forever changed. Changed [...]

I was recently invited to sample some Folger’s coffee. Coffee? COFFEE? Sign me up! I’m all about the coffee!
Soon thereafter, I received three bags of Folger’s Gourmet Selections coffees to try — Lively Colombian, Morning Café and Vanilla Biscotti. Since I’m not a huge fan of flavored coffee, I let my friend Wendy sample the [...]

Dear V8 Splash,
While I can appreciate your desire to market a product with less sugar, I would also expect that when you used an artificial sweetener like sucralose (Splenda) as an ingredient, you would somehow make that bit of information VISIBLE somewhere on your bottle. Oh, and that teeny, tiny, almost unreadable font that you [...]