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I just made 2 cups of almond milk using this recipe and this bag. Not bad, not bad at all. Delicious, in fact. My blender is noisy, otherwise, because you squeeze it out quick-like, this is easy-peasy and totes yummers.

For the last 64 days, my life has been sweetened — literally — by an amazing honey that I just finished off. It’s the end of an era. Thank you, Emily!

You see, 64 days ago my sister Emily and her family brought me 3 lbs. of Wonderful Wyoming Honey, when they came to Anaheim to visit some large theme park or something. The honey comes from the hives of Milt & Peggy Miller, who live in the shadow of the Tetons and make the world’s best honey. I’ve eaten it by the spoonful for 64 days now (but who’s counting), and I miss it already. If you find this honey, buy it.

I remember a sense of bewilderment when I went to my first Trader Joe’s many years ago — somewhere north of San Diego, maybe in Poway or Rancho Bernardo? It seemed like a place for twig-munching, wine-sipping hippies, and I wasn’t any of those things. My view of food has shifted a lot since then. The shift is a familiar path you might have taken, too: less and less McDonald’s, more and more twigs. But for the first time ever, I’m cursing TJ’s all week long. Gasp! I know! “Gasp!” is the right reaction to the headline of this post. But … it’s not really Joe’s fault, it’s more about carbonation.

Here’s the thing. Due to my unpredictable, voice-oriented career, I’ve kept bottles of water in my trunk for a long time now — not to use all the time, but when I forget to hydrate and I need a backup stat! Tuesday, I happened by a TJ’s as I hurried, parched, to a commercial audition, so I ran in and grabbed the first thing I could find: a case of Trader Joe’s Sparkling Mineral Water. Bad move. Every single one of these large bottles makes an enormous mess whenever I open it, no matter how cautious I am — and no matter how long my car has been stationary. Yup, I even tried opening one first thing in the AM. And the “lime” taste is only meh, anyway. So, back to plain bottled water. And back to Trader Joe’s … I have a long, long grocery list of many favorites I’m out of!

At Whole Foods, I saw a packet of fresh, organic herbs labelled “Poultry Herbs.” Try as I might, I couldn’t find a list of what was inside. Strange. But if you open it up, you will find the exact quantities of rosemary, sage and thyme that my chicken soup recipe calls for. Exact. Ain’t that nice? No extra expense of 3 herbs (and they are expensive), and no extra herbs going bad in the refrigerator. The aroma is wafting even as I type this. Mmm … herbs.