Food
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 as 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 weeks 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 beside 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
MoCo Downtown– The Best Italian Style Restaurant in New Brunswick
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.
S’more Oreo Cookies
Today I went to Wal-Mart to buy some clothes and decided to reward myself with a pack of cookies. I had 4 of them and then I must have blacked out because the next time I went to look at the bag there was only 2 of twenty left.
That made me sad.
So I ate the last two.
A Cheezy Post
Today I went to the local grocery store and wanted to try a new cheese. I decided on the Mango Ginger flavoured White Stilton cheese. I only got a small block because you never know with unknown cheeses if you will like them. I brought it home and unwrapped the plastic wrapping and placed it on my tongue and let it set.
OMG! The flavour was incredible! It was not to strong or mild and had the nice mango and ginger flavour, and crumbled in my mouth since it has a low moisture.
It was so good that I had a flavour blackout an when I came too again the whole block was gone. It gets a 4.5/5 from me.
More Christmas Foods that Need to Die
After my last article I decided to review a few more items to see it there was something that could top the last two atrocities. Guess what! I found them.
First on the list is Soy Wonderful Noël Nog. This was thicker than the Almond version but had a very bad after taste. In addition after only a week it congealed into a tick lumpy mass of disappointment. Much similar to the beverage version of lumps of coal in the stocking.
The second item was the Gingerbread Man Peeps. These little gems were not only disappointing but the taste like regular Peeps with only a small hint of Gingerbread.
Though I did find a few positive items this time. The first is a local gem Mrs. Dunster’s Candy Cane coated donut bites. These like many other Mrs. Dunster’s products was simply to die for.
The next item that is amazing is from Starbucks. The Cranberry Bliss Bar is an amazing choice to compliment any coffee but the Gingerbread Latte is the best compliment to it.
From Tim Horton’s the biggest disappointment is the Gingerbread Muffin it almost makes you gag from the over strong spice that burns your mouth as you try to eat it.