It’s sometimes amazing what you can throw together without much thought or time. To balance that out, of course, are the science experiments gone wrong that end up in your lessons learned book. This one is more on the amazing side.
Archive for the ‘Recipes, food, cooking and related items’ Category
Chicken Salad Sandwich – Recipe
10/23/2010Trader Joe’s Pad Thai (w/ tofu) – Food Review
10/17/2010
Soggy noodles? But they still taste good.
Fat bastard – Shiraz 2007 – Wine Review
10/13/2010
Trader Joe’s Pinot Grigio Artisan Salami – Food Review
10/03/2010
No, you are not seeing double. No, this is not deja-vu all over again. This is a slightly different version of Trader Joe’s Artisan Salami. This, the Pinot Grigio variation.
Chicken And Spinach Soup – Not What You’d Think – Recipe
09/11/2010
This is another one that surprises based on its simplicity and results. This light soup will bring pleasant comments from you and your family or guests. But first a quiz.
Trader Joe’s Corn & Chile Salsa (Tomato-Less) – Food Review
09/04/2010The jar says, “A sweet combination of corn, red peppers, onion and a touch of heat.” And that it is.
Trader Joe’s “Tortilla Chips – with an Identity Crisis” – Food Review
09/04/2010
This is what happens when you don’t look closely at what you pick off the shelf. If I had stopped and actually read the label, I probably would’ve left them on the shelf and looked for a “normal” tortilla chip.
Trader Joe’s President’s Reserve Extra Virgin Olive Oil – Food Review
08/22/2010Trader Joe’s President’s Reserve Extra Virgin Olive Oil is: Italian, cold pressed, good looking, good tasting, the right price and is surprisingly difficult to photograph. The only thing that could make it more perfect would be a picture of Sophia Loren.
Empanadas – Recipe
08/21/2010Empanadas are filled Latino “pastry pies”. And that’s a misleading description in my book. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a picture below. What’s pictured is really more appropriately named, empanadillas (small empanadas). We can quibble about the name while we eat them, because eating is the more important thing. These particular ones are filled with a tasty ground beef mixture. We might destroy all the mystery about the name by calling it a pocket sloppy joe. But that would be wrong.
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