The White Monkey Tea is actually a green tea and it looks like one with its dark green stands. It has a sort of wet grassy smell. Kind of seaweed like…like the aroma of an aquarium. As for flavor…well, as usual with many teas, the White Monkey tea gets really bitter after steeping it for…
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The Golden Flower Tea comes as these tightly woven ovalish green ‘balls’. There are flecks of copper ‘golden’ hues to them. It smells a bit floral…floral, but thicker and heavier for lack of a better term. The floral smell is accompanied by a somewhat floral taste. In addition to having a floral taste, it is…
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The Pi Lo Chun Green Tea comes as a cluster of little partial swirly-like leaves. The leaves are primarily green with bits of white on them and have a grassy smell to them. The flavor itself is generally pretty mild bodied and grassy, but it can be bitter on the aftertaste. The more it steeps,…
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PopCorners‘ Flex protein crisps are basically low calorie, protein packed, chips. The ones I am reviewing are their barbecue flavored version. They also have a buffalo variety, which I’ve had, but I’m just reviewing the barbecue one. Why? Because they are delicious and I am addicted to them and so I have to shout out…
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I recently reviewed Kite Hill’s Plain Cream ‘Cheese’. I liked it, but I wasn’t intending to get anymore anytime soon as I generally preferred Tofutti. A few things happened after that review that changed that… We discovered that Kite Hill’s cream cheese has horrible shelf life compared to Tofutti. It went moldy quite quickly. That…
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I’ve reviewed one of Paesana products before–their pickled Cauliflower mix. Paesana’s Grilled Mushroom Mix is fundamentally different from that so I was not sure what to expect. Looking at the jar, I was thinking this would be some sort of oily mushroom mix with some, I don’t know, strong grilled flavor with some other notes.…
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Stuffed Spanish Olives are not an uncommon sight in stores or olive bars. Kirkland Signature’s Spanish Queen Olives, stuffed with pimiento, don’t appear much different from such olives, save they come in a large container and are large themselves. The flavor of these Spanish Queen Olives is what you’d expect: intense and briny. They also…
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Kite Hill Cream Cheese is another brand of vegan alternative cream cheese, like my previously reviewed Tofutti cream cheese. The base for Kite Hill’s vegan cream ‘cheese’ is almond milk rather than tofu as with Tofutti. Almond milk is light—in calories and body. This almond milk based cream cheese is no exception to that. This…
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Tofutti Imitation Cream Cheese is a tofu based replacement to cream cheese. Vegan! It’s low in calorie, but acts very much like real cream cheese and tastes about the same (if not better). I use it as my preferred cream cheese replacement and I love it. The Tofutti Cream Cheese spreads very well on a…
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I believe this is the first Koop’s Mustard I’ve ever had. There was something that spoke to me about it. The packaging is really slick and…the name of it: Arizona Heat. That name really declares its intention. Heat—and I like my heat. I like heat and I like this ‘Arizona Heat’ mustard. It delivered fully…
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