Barbecue Chicken Pizza Morning coffee ?? When trail mix becomes just raisins #disappointmentpanda Fresh Pogo! #eatlocal #nbfoodies Fresh is always best. #sjfoodie #saintawesome This risotto is to die for! #sjfoodie This was so good #sjfoodie S’more so good. #sjfoodie My sister replaced the toaster with a 4 slice, that can barely brown a frozen waffle after 4 tries. Verdict the toaster suck! My sister replaced the toaster with a 4 slice, that can barely brown a frozen waffle after 4 tries. Verdict the toaster suck! Nice evening mini coffee. #sjfoodie #igerssaintjohn #saintawesome My free Birthday venti Caramel Macchiato! #starbucksgold Birthday Cheesecake #sjfoodie Split the Lamb and Shawarma burgers with @rotten_vixen at @tasteofegypt Chocolate Eclair Pie! #foodie Cheesecake So good! They know me so well. ???? #foodie #donutreview https://cefm.ca/2019/a-disappointment-with-an-italian-name/
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The Pink Tax

I have a great new item to review and this is a super overpriced chocolate bar. I bought this at Sobey’s for $2.99. It is the Pink Cocoa Kit Kat bar.
This bar was a little bit smaller than the typical flavoured Kit Kat bars. It was a weird shade of pink to make it have the appearance of being natural. It tasted a lot like white chocolate but with an unusual sweet berry side favour. My rating is 1.5/10. Like most pink items it is overpriced for what you get. If you are considering it, go for the green tea version. You won’t regret it.
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Off on the Epic, the Dancing King

Okay, the Epic titles and making reference to epic things may be getting old at this point but trust me there will be more and they will be epically cliche. Upon boarding the ship, it was luck time so I headed to the buffet as usual and sampled a bit of everything. Apparently, the buffet on the first two days of a trip makes up about half of all food waste for the entire week-long voyage.
The food was pretty good. Nothing outstanding from most buffets in most ships and restaurants. I was also disappointed that Washie-Washie was not as happy-happy as my last trip. This may seem like complaining, but it is not. The Norwegian Epic is very good, and far superior to not travelling in the first place.
After lunch, I grabbed a drink and explored around the ship until it was time to meet up with the Solo Coordinator at the meetup in the solo lounge. The solo lounge on the Epic was really good and better than the Getaway. It had an espresso machine and was amazing coffee. From this meeting, I went to dinner and then called it a night.
The next day I did a lot of relaxing, and whiskey and rum sampling. After dinner, I went to the whiskey bar for a Jack Daniels tasting but was convinced by the bartender that an hour later the Scottish Macallan tasting was more worth the money and had a better quality pairing. So I decided to stay at the bar and socialize for the hour.
The tasting was an incredible experience to learn more about the whiskey notes. (Despite being a certified Jameson Irish Whisky taster) Most people at the tasting and the head bartender seemed to be making flavours up. Anyway, after the tasting, we were told of a Martini tasting. This seemed like a great idea.
At the tasting, there were 3 gin-based and 3 vodka-based martinis to taste. The younger woman sitting across from me with her mother was not enjoying at all the non-fruity and classic martinis. From the collection, the one that stood out was the Cucumber Martini. It became my friend many times that voyage. The only downside was it was hard to walk around the ship with a martini glass. The glass is just not the best at countering let’s blame it on the ocean swells.
Then it was time for dinner. It was good even if it wasn’t memorable. After dinner was spent between the martini and whiskey bar. Followed by the highlight of the night. The dancing king and queen competition at the Bliss night club. To be honest, with my bad ankle dancing is not the best idea, but there were so few people dancing that I started off the dancing and then sat for a drink. Then come competition time I was dancing back up to the bar and was spotted and selected as the dancing king! From this, I won a bottle of wine. Since I had the drink package, I spotted a couple in the back corner on a date night and gave away the bottle.
I then called it a night and went to bed.
The next morning was not the greatest as it was about 11 am before I emerged and it was a window that finding food on the ship was hard. I went to the mini-buffet and found a quiet place on deck 18 to catch some sun. Which left me burnt for the week. The rest of that day was a blur of activity and fun. I knew I didn’t want it to be a “big night”, as the next day I was off to check the only new county off my list, the British Virgin Islands.
A Disappointment with an Italian Name


Tonight, I’ve experienced the $1.49 special Tim Hortons take on a Tiramisu style donut. My opinion is that it is the biggest disappointment I have ever seen.
The traditional tiramisu has 2 distinguishing characteristics that any cake and variations of it are basically the same, and experience of heaven. The name itself means ”pick me up” or ”cheer me up”. Those ingredients are whipped mascarpone cheese and coffee liquor-soaked cake.
The variation that I was served does neither and is a ”let down”, or”scoraggiare” in Italian. This donut is made from their standard filled yeast base donut with a coffee flavoured Venetian cream centre. The top is dipped in white frosting with a chocolate zig-zag crossing the top and powdered chocolate and one or two coffee bean halves.
Those coffee bean haves are the worst part of this donut as you have to pick them off as they are terrible to crunch on.
Russell Stover Cookie Dough Confection

This is the first of an eight-part weekly series that I am going to try out unusual foods and review them.

This week’s item is from Russel Stover Cookie Dough in Milk Chocolate. It was about a dollar from Giant Tiger. It consists of one 28g piece of candy. Nutritionally it was (past tense since I have already eaten it 😉)130 calories, has 5g fat, 17g sugar, 3g other carbs, 1g protein, and 2g other.
As I open the package the item is a weird shaped glob without the pre-told story of the packaging is not anything corresponding with Christmas besides reindeer guano.

It was nice and soft to bite into but the glob of cookie dough became overwhelming and hard to finish.
I would not recommend this flavour, I would suggest solid chocolate or marshmallow varieties. As it is a marshmallow world at Christmas time.
IG: Food Instagrams
This is a collection of Instagram posts over the last 5 years involving food.
It appears that Raspberries float. #mindblown #bigtide #nocaptionrequired I have an extra due to a bogo coupon. Cooking my 1st bird and the package had no instructions. #wtf An attempted #local breakfast. Eggs, Cheddar, mushrooms, and onion. Not sure where the salt and pepper are from. Last St. Hubert meal. The SJ location closes forever today. #weekofchange There is probably a rule about not making Poutine with British Cheese but it was all I had. I need to find where I can get more of this! Breakfast time. Canadianized version of Bangers and Mashed. Maple Sausage and boiled potatoes w/ curds and poutine sauce. Quick and easy dinner. #greatfood #food No Easter dinner can compare to my tender Goulash. Meal prep for lunches. The @burgerweeksj #birthdayweek has commended @YorkBistro The 2nd @burgerweeksj #birthdayweek burger is @eastcoastbistr0 Let the Birthday begin! German cake and beer! Actual Birthday @burgerweeksj burger is @mexicali_rosas #birthdayweek Quick and Easy supper tonight #foodies It’s Canada Day, let the timbit pumbeling begin! Brunch and World Cup Football!! @bigtidebrewing Nothing beats a great fresh goulash! My vacation began with a visit to Billy’s in the market for the 1st time. #latergram Breakfast to with fresh NB blueberries! Local Blueberries, Local Cream, drizzled with Local Honey. Breakfast! Lunch #CWTS2014 Dried Basil anyone? Making supper. #hooterphotobomb Lay’s Wavy Milk Chocolate Potato Chips are terrible! It’s salmon night! Having an early access pass to a PSL is a great start to a long weekend! @bsqcentre @starbucks It has been 2 years too long since I had one of these! @bearzmoke This is what canned pulled pork looks like. Supper is ready! Months supply of rice to freeze. Lazy super baked chicken and Teriyaki Rice. #foodporn #meals #food Clam Chowder #meals #food #seafoodisawesome #seafoodlover Dinner #foodporn #homecookingrocks Smoked Salmon Omelet with Coffee Dinner time. Mango Waffles!!! #homecooking #sundaybrunch #foodporn I have a large pot of Blueberry Rhubarb, looking for ideas of what to do with it. A slow cooked very thick pancake with Blueberry-Rhubarb topping. #foodporn #outsidetheboxcooking Ketchup on waffles? #foodfail This is the Danish I ate in Copenhagen Denmark. What shall eat in Hamburg Germany? #travel #travelfood #travelproblems Burger Week is my favourite week. Hula Burger from Mix Bistro #sjburgerweek My final meal of 34. I will be so glad for this year to be over. Cavendish Fries, Fritesauce, and 0% beer. Made it to Denny’s 😍 With a little dessert 😍 The Wurst! #meaningoflife Waffle Sticks dipped in custard. #healthybreakfast #foodporn Home cooked waffles, with real fruit, and maple 🍁 syrup. #foodporn #healthybreakfast #greatfood OMG! Tim’s brought the Dutchie back for #canada150 Mexican Rice #healthyfood RibFest #healtyfood So good The #nbday #roadtrip #heathyeating dinner! 😍 Raspberry Sour Pie!!! ❤️😍❤️ Dinner Not half eaten food. Purity Jam Jams fresh from Newfoundland. It’s #PSL time of year again! 😍 Grande with extra shots of Espresso!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Yum some good Chinese food from Manchu Wok Seriously chicken Tim’s Pumpkin Spice Muffin is so good but more expensive this year $1.69! Ukrainian Breakfast looks so good! I had to organize the chocolates. I’m not OCD. Canned Kale… the Super Food. Better than Popeye’s canned spinach. Good breakfast at Billy’s Everyone stop what you are doing and go to @sjcitymarket and get a fresh stroopwafel! You have not lived without one! #livelifeuptown #saintawesome #healthyfood Yum Breakfast #saintawesome Bacon and Donair Pizza! The Saint John River breakfast is so good. #healthyfood Dinner time! #healtyfood #freddyfoodie It’s free Root Beer Day @awcanada #healtyfood #portcityfoodies #saintawesome Teriyaki Veggie Rice, Steak and, Chow #homemeals #healthyfood #heathyeating Which isle has more salt. The one with canned soup, meats, and veggies. Or the baking isle where you buy salt. #youchoose Dinner on the work Dinner on the way to Ottawa. Stay tuned for updates. #CanadaDay150YOW2YSJ #canadaday150 #roadtrip Fresh blueberries Num Num
The following is a repost of my review for MoCo Downtown that appears on TripAdvisor.
I was there for the first time on Saturday and I was floored by how wonderful this gem of a place was. I ordered the Sussex Sausage Risotto and for a side paired it with the Sliced Brussel Sprout with Prosciutto and Pine Nut side.
It was so creamy and spicy and flavourful that it blew me away. The Brussel Sprouts we very salty, but that is exactly what you would get in Italy. Unlike many Italian restaurants that simply mimics what you would get in various parts of Italy, this place cooks like a Tuscan or Venetian chef would with access and highlighting of New Brunswick ingredients.
The food was so good but I would not want to not mention how friendly the wait staff was and how efficiently the kitchen was putting out plates. Definitely going to go back and explore more of this menu.