Pizza at Home - Flat Iron Pepper Company

Happy Sunday! That means it's time for pizza! 

For a few years now, Sundays have meant pizza day. For a time, I was making a unique pizza every single week! Sometimes to relate to where we were traveling. Sometimes because of a particular ingredients. Maybe there's a different style I wanted to try making. Sometimes just being weird with it (looking at you cereal pizza). I've slowed down on making unique things, and Sundays have turned into "just make everyone's favorite." 

Jacob however started bringing his own red pepper flakes that he was sent one year from his friend Cory. Now, I have a shaker of red pepper flakes that I bought from Walmart for $1.44. Aren't you being a little pretentious bringing over this new bottle of pepper flakes when I have some already? 

Well... then I tasted them. Ooh, those are a lot better! Do they make others? 

So, a few weeks later, Jacob showed up with 3 different Flat Iron Pepper Company flavors! 

It's their 3 top-selling flavors! There's Dark & Smoky, Four Pepper Blend, and Hatch Valley Green! I'm excited to taste them! 

Saturday Morning Cereals - Insta-bowls Kellogg's Cereal taste test comparison

Happy Saturday! What's for breakfast? Cereal! The perfect thing to enjoy with Saturday morning cartoons (if that's even a thing anymore). 

Today, we're trying something new from Kellogg's! Insta-bowls cereal! We've got to try this with Pop Pop. He loves cereal!

So, imagine, you want a delicious bowl of cereal, but you find that you're all out of milk! No worries! Insta-bowls has you covered! Just add cold water, give it a stir, and you just created real milk! 

Naturally we're trying every bowl along with its counterpart. Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, and finally Raisin Bran Crunch. Theresa would not let me take the easy way out and just use a bowl of Raisin Bran. We had to find the Raisin Bran Crunch in the mini-bowl to match. 

Skittles Cotton Candy taste test comparison

During our travels, at a random grocery store, I happened upon a bag of Skittles Cotton Candy! We do like Skittles! In fact, with this Colorado crew, we tried 13 unique bags of Skittles consisting of 56 different flavors! I knew we'd have to do this taste test with them! 

The Skittles Cotton Candy is all one color. Looks like we're not going to Taste The Rainbow apparently with this cotton candy. I'm curious what flavor it will be. To go along with it, we have an entire bag of Skittles which fortunately includes the Lime green instead of the Green Apple abomination. 

2024 Disneyland Half Marathon - 2024/01/14

Good morning! After a 7 year hiatus, it is once again time for the Disneyland Half Marathon! Unlike all the previous years where the race was in September, for their first year back in 2024, they are holding the race during the second week of January! Just 1 week after the runDisney races in Florida at Walt Disney World! 

Fair warning, this one is a really long one with lots of pictures. 

Normally I'd try to have a costume lined for up the race. Since we're full-time RVers now, coming from Florida, I don't have my usual selection of hats and clothes. But... we did just celebrate Christmas and I haven't sent any of those clothes back to storage. Why not dress as Santa? The tropical flamingo shorts are because Santa is on vacation now. 

Chocolate Frosted Donut KitKat taste test comparison

Happy Sunday! Weekends are perfect for donuts, and so today, we have a Chocolate Donut taste test! 

What confection has dared to try to live up to the perfection that is the Chocolate Donut? Looks like KitKat is going to give it a try! 

To taste alongside this Chocolate Frosted Donut KitKat, we've got to find a really good donut. One of my favorites is Krispy Kreme (thank you Amy and Donald for sharing for this taste test). These light and airy donuts are already amazing, but heat them in the microwave for a few seconds and they are phenomenal. 

We know KitKat can make some pretty amazing flavors. We've done a taste test where we tried 28 different Kit Kat flavors from all over Japan. 

Saturday Morning Cereals - ICEE Cereal taste test comparison

It's Saturday which means it's time for another Saturday Morning Cereal taste test! Today we've got an interesting one. 

ICEE cereal! And who better to taste it with than the queen of frozen drinks, Aubrey! Seriously, she loves them. Middle of winter in Michigan, we'll still hear "I'm taking the kids to get an ICEE!" When we're together in Florida, shaved ice is a daily treat. When we visited Hawaii together, Aubrey had shaved ice at least once and sometimes twice a day. 

And like we do here, you can't taste the ICEE cereal without also tasting an ICEE beside it. A little melted from the car ride, but it could be worse. 

Days hanging out after Christmas - 2023/12/28

Jumping around a bit, I know. This is from hanging out with family in Florida in December, after celebrating Christmas together. 

runDisney after the Kids Race and leading up to the Disneyland Half Marathon - 2014/01/14

The runDisney Kids Race was earlier this morning and we've just been hanging out in the hotel room. I think there's more that we can be doing, so we all hopped back in the car and headed to Disneyland. I'm thankful for the $10 parking instead of the regular $35 parking. 

2024 Disneyland Kids Race

Oh boy! It's time for the Disneyland runDisney Kids Races! 
Coming back to Disneyland after all this time and seeing how much the kids have grown really reminds me of how much time has passed! 

Alli and Ian did the Kids Races here the last time it was offered in 2017. They've grown so much since then! And I thought they had grown so much between 2016 and 2017! Alli was doing the diaper dash (crawl) then! 

We're headed to California for runDisney and the Expo!

What time is it? It's time for another Disney race! 

It's finally time for the return of the Happiest Race on Earth! 

Back in 2017 Disneyland held their last race and me and the kids were a part of it! They had an awesome time at the Kids Race and I ran the half marathon! The race went on hiatus while there was supposed to hotel construction around the starting line. Then it stayed gone during Covid and continued to be gone until finally in 2022 they announced The Return! 

Hot Honey Pringles taste test comparison

Okay, just one more Pringles taste test for now. There's certainly been a lot this week! 

This time we're trying Hot Honey Pringles! They are a Walmart Exclusive! 

Of course we've got to try them with my parents, who a few years ago kept bee hives and made their own Flowers' honey! My dad has a couple posts about it here. FlowersbeesVA.blogspot.com

To compare, we've got a couple bottles of Hot Honey from both Sue Bee and Trader Joe's. And while we could just eat the honey straight off a spoon, why not enjoy it instead on some of Megan's freshly baked sourdough bread! Yum!

Elote Mexican Street Corn Pringles and Street Taco Pringles taste test comparison

It's another Pringles Taste Test! This time bringing us two flavors from Mexico!

Mexican Street Corn Pringles and Street Taco Pringles! And since we like to try every taste test we can along with what that flavor is supposed to represent, we've got homemade Mexican Street Corn and Pulled Pork Street Taco, just to see if they got their flavors right. 

Chili Cheese Pringles taste test comparison

New Pringles? Absolutely! Today we're going to try a Chili Cheese Fries Pringles! 

And of course we've got to make our own to try along with it! I tried to match the picture on the Pringles canister as best I could. Straight cut fries, chunky chili, nacho cheese and even the chopped onions! 

Happy Birthday Theresa!

Wishing Theresa a very Happy Birthday!

Mochinut Donuts taste test

While Nicole and Jacob were out shopping, they came across a shop that Nicole had been wanting to try. Mochinut Donuts! 

Originating in Hawaii, Mochi Donuts are a combination of the American Donut and Japanese Mochi. 

There are 25 different Mochi Donut flavors possible here at Mochinut, but only a dozen different flavors are offered each week. You'll have to check the Instagram of each shop to know the flavors of the week. 

 

Nicole and Jacob learned that the Churro is one of their most popular flavors. They also grabbed a Honey and Nutella. A 3-pack cost $9. 

Tesla Road Trip - Leaving St Louis, Driving through Kansas, and Getting to Colorado - 2023/11/15

Time for our final push to get to Colorado! We left our hotel at the St Louis Arch and started our journey westward. 

Visiting the St. Louis Arch - Gateway Arch - 2023/11/15

Continuing our Tesla road trip across the country, we are finally getting to see something up close that we've been wanting to see since we started. 

The St. Louis Arch! Or as it's also known, the Gateway Arch!

Tesla Road Trip - Going to Tennessee and St. Louis - 2023/11/14

Continuing our journey across the country to deliver a vehicle from Florida to my dad in Colorado, we had just left the Chick-fil-A Dwarf House near Atlanta Georgia, on our way to Tennessee. We're meeting up with Carson and Abby tonight at 6pm and it's already 1:30pm! According to the map, it's going to take 5:30 hours to get there! Better hurry!

Skittles Littles taste test comparison

It's Skittles! But Littles! 

Come here littles! It's time to taste some Skittles! 

These Skittles Littles are brand new! Theresa saw them while shopping at Target and knew we'd have to give them a shot! We've tried so many other versions of Skittles over the years, including the time we tried 13 different bags of Skittles consisting of 56 different flavors! We also had Skittles Yogurt, Skittles Drink Mix, Skittles Freezer Ice Pops, Freeze Dried Skittles, Skittles Candy Canes, and Skittles Cotton Candy, 

Seaweed flavored Pringles from Japan taste test comparison

Earlier this year, Theresa, Alli, Ian, and I went to Japan for 3 weeks! While we were there, I found all sorts of interesting treats, some that I knew I wanted to bring back and try with everyone at home! 

First of those are these Pringles! We've tried dozens of different Pringles flavors over the years, including a taste test where we tried 19 different flavors of Pringles at once!  

Today we've got a flavor unlike anything we've had before. Seaweed flavor! That's definitely not one we'd find in the US. 

And like we always try to do here, along with the Seaweed Pringles, we'll also be having a roasted seaweed snack to go along with it. 

CookiePop Nutter Butter Popcorn taste test comparison

Cookie Pop has a new flavor that Theresa found that we've just got to try! Nutter Butter! 

Nutter Butter cookies are so delicious. Sweet, crunchy, and peanut buttery, they are the favorite of both Amy and Rita. 

Will these Nutter Butter Popcorn pieces measure up? Let's find out! 

And like we always do, I have Nutter Butter cookies to compare these to! 

Happy New Year from Florida!

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year from Florida!