The 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.
Eat Pray Love – Movie Review
08/15/2010Eat, Pray, Love. If I had done any of these for the 2.25 hours the movie ran, I would’ve been better served.
Trader Joe’s Black Bean & Cheese Taquitos – Food Review
08/14/2010Once again. It was cardboard boxes before. Now it’s cut off pieces of plastic wrapping. It’s not a bad picture. It’s in focus. I had to work little to get the glare off the plastic wrap label. I could’ve spent more time getting the light even. But taking pictures of labels, is that what life should be about? I guess so.
Cucumber Onion Salad – Recipe
08/14/2010This is a pretty quick and handy dish, especially in the summer when everyone you know has a boat load of cucumbers to give away. Plus, using your chef knife to slice through those cucumbers as if they were butter, gives you a real sense of accomplishment.
Simple Stuff – Recipes
08/14/2010Sometimes we cook simply because our bodies demand fuel. Then, we cook to eat. Here are a few simple recipes that feed that fuel demand.
Tuna Salad Sandwich – recipe
08/14/2010
The best tuna salad sandwich I ever had, was in high school. I could eat those every day, and often did. Unfortunately, I don’t have that recipe. Here’s another recipe that we use. One of the things that’s missing here is some diced celery. I didn’t have any at the time. But if you do have some celery, dice up about a half of a stalk and add to the recipe.
Spanakopita – the real thing – recipe
08/07/2010
It was a little bit ago that we reviewed Trader Joe’s Spinach Pie (Spanakopita) and found it good, but not as good as Mama used to make. Since Mama actually never made spanakopita, that left it up to me to find a recipe and see how Mama would’ve made it, if she had. So here’s Mama’s spanakopita recipe.
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