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Welcome to my first in a long series of energy drink reviews. I have been wanting to start this project for some years now, and have been collecting data from all the various weird energy drinks I've tried over time. I got the idea from a hilarious new reviewer at the time, Salmiyuck , who reviewed the awful salty liquorice flavored candies known as Salmiakki. The site made me laugh and it was fun seeing what weird stuff people sent him to try and review. With my love of energy drinks and trying as many as I can, I wanted to do something similar. Here's the first review. Enjoy! Bubba Pure Energy Red Flare I was out grocery shopping for supplies for an out of town buddy that was visiting us for the week. This was also the same buddy I used to work with and that started tasting all of these crazy energy drinks with me several years ago. We were walking down the soda aisle at my local Save-A-Lot and he spotted a new energy drink! It was Save-A-Lot...

Gourmet Pizza and Marinara Sauce from Scratch TL;DR – PrintableRecipe Page Link (PDF) Joe Stillman 5/7/19 Have you ever wanted to make a gourmet pizza from scratch, but thought making your own dough and sauce would be complicated, difficult or expensive?  You might be surprised that it is quite cheap and easy to make your own specialty pie. Restaurants may charge $14-18 for a pizza, but making your own only requires a little bit of physical work, and about an hour of waiting. I will walk you through doing all of this by hand with affordable ingredients, using utensils you most likely already have in your kitchen. For those with stand mixers, I will have alternate instructions at the end of the recipe. I find that many recipes also add too many steps into a recipe that are just not necessary. My goal with these recipe articles is to take either my own, or existing recipes, and re-write them to make them less complicated and easier to follow. I find tha...