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01/09/2011
If you insist, here’s how to make your own cannoli dough. But we’ll have to call them non-wonton cannoli.
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Tags:cannoli, cannoli dough, cooking, dessert, food, italian, part 3, recipe, recipes, ricotta cheese, vegetarian
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01/08/2011
Refresh your geometry with TJ’s Spanakopita.
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Tags:appetizers, calories, exotic, food, price, review, reviews, spanakopita, tj, tj's, trader joe's, triangles
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01/04/2011
Not to my taste. Other people find it goes well with strong foods.
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Tags:2008, food, igt, igt sicilia, nero d'avola, price, review, reviews, ruggero di tasso, ruggero di tasso 2008 nero d'avola, wine
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12/31/2010
There is a difference between a $3 bottle of wine and a $7 bottle of wine. And it’s not just the nice heavy bottle the $7 wine comes in.
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Tags:2009, alexander and fitch cabernet sauvignon 2009, cabernet, food, price, review, reviews, sauvignon, tj's, trader joe's, wine
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12/31/2010
That’s right. A quesadilla is basically a grilled cheese sandwich. It may not look like a grilled cheese sandwich or taste like one, but …
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Tags:cheese, cooking, food, quesadilla, recipe, recipes, salsa, tortilla
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12/30/2010
What’s not vegetable about an onion? There are no French in the soup. I hope not? So why a special version for onion soup?
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Tags:better than bouillon, cooking, food, french onion soup, miso, onion, recipe, recipes, soup, vegetarian
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12/26/2010
As promised, I took the Italian-less sausage-less vegetarian sausage, attempted to breath new life into it and duplicate the meat version of this great cheese dip. Whether it turned into a Frankenstein or a Fronkensteen, you’ll have to decide.
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Tags:cheese dip, diced tomatoes and chiles, food, kicked, queso dip, recipe, recipes, rotel, vegetarian, velvetta
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12/26/2010
Lightening can strike twice for $3.99. This Golden Eagle has landed.
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Tags:2009, Aquila D'Oro, igt, indicazione geografica tipica, price, review, reviews, sangiovese, super tuscan, tj's, Toscana, trader joe's, wine
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12/25/2010
This won’t put my local Mexican restaurant out of business, but for a change of pace, it’s not bad.
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Tags:box lunch, calories, chile relleno, exotic, food, frozen box lunches, mexican, mexican stuffed pepper, price, review, reviews, tj's, trader joe's, vegetarian
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12/25/2010
If you’re currently a carnivore, don’t try this. If you’re currently a carnivore thinking about a vegetarian path, really don’t try this. If you’re currently a lifelong vegetarian who thinks this is what Italian sausage tastes like, keep on believing.
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Tags:calories, food, italian, italian sausage, italian sausage-less sausage, price, review, reviews, sausage, tj's, trader joe's, vegetarian
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