Reviews: Other
Recipe Reviews, Product Reviews, Foodie Event Reviews
Make Your Own Thin Mints
How to make your own Thin Mints, using a chocolate cake mix or Ritz crackers. This is a review of two popular methods, and includes advice about easy-yet-successful ways to work with chocolate.
Krusteaz Pumpkin Mixes
MiLam reviews Krusteaz pumpkin mixes: muffins, pancakes, and quick bread. They’ve very easy to make, and quite tasty. With the addition of a bit of cream cheese and/or some raisins, you can make them your own.
Madre Chocolate
In this post, Keith and I review three chocolate bars from Madre Chocolate, a bean-to-bar Hawaiian producer who uses beans grown in the Kona region. Two thumbs up!
Martha Stewart’s Best Buttermilk Pancakes
Martha Stewart’s Best Buttermilk Pancakes – especially with blueberries – are unparalleled. I used to think that pancakes were by definition boring at best. I was wrong. These are remarkable. Yes, a mix would be easier, if you want to settle for something serviceable. Yes, you could just go directly to her site and read the recipe, but then you’d miss all my smartass comments.
Adamus, Chicago Loop Restaurant and Lounge, Serves Up New Fall Menu
Adamus … root word of “Adamantium” – the stuff that makes Wolverine invincible … is Adamus Chicago’s underground mutant hangout? MiLam ate and drank its way through the Silversmith Hotel, in the hopes of finding someone with superpowers.