Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’
02/09/2018
February 9, 2018
This is another grown-up mac & cheese. This has a nice earthy depth of flavor but less complex than the recently reviewed Truffle Mac & Cheese. This product adds Hatch Chiles to a classic cheddar cheese base. If you’re worried that the chiles make this mac & cheese spicy hot, no need for that. Only a very very mild heat can be detected in sporadic bites when a bit of the green chili actually finds its way to your fork. Mostly, the chiles just adds a secondary complementary flavor to the cheese adding to the depth of flavor.
Again, half the container was more than adequate as a side to dinner. While I prepared this in the microwave, using the oven, taking another 20 minutes or so, might add a nice browning to the top. But I leave that experiment for you.
What’s a Hatch Chili? Well it’s hard to say other than these chiles were grown in or around Hatch, New Mexico (according to information on the box). For those interested here’s the Wiki link.
Price $2.99 per frozen box (two servings per box)
Calories, 260 per serving (170g)
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02/09/2018
February 9, 2018
This is a nice cheese, a blend of parmesan and cheddar implied by the label. This cheese is mild with a gentle nutty sweet flavor. The texture is medium firm, and definitely not hard. The Syrah wine soak doesn’t add much to the flavor, but puts a pretty purple coating on the outside. The cheese slices nicely and is not crumbly. This is suitable for a cheese tray if you don’t mind some odd-shaped pieces as the cheese is sold as a wedge.
Now the interesting thing about using this on a cheese tray could be watching people try to decide if that purple coating on the outside is edible, or not. I’m not saying.
price $9.99 per pound calories, 120 per ounce (28g)
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01/26/2018
January 26, 2018
Have a handkerchief ready to catch the drool starting to form at the edge of the mouth about halfway through the cooking time as the earthy aromas start to waff out of the microwave. This is one grown-up Mac & Cheese.
Five different cheeses and truffle extract give this a very deep earthy wonderful flavor. All the preceding adhere to short spiral shaped macaroni. This is decidedly different from the kid’s $1 a box glow-in-the-dark stuff that cooks up on the stove.
At $3.49 a frozen box, this might seem a little pricey. And it is. But consider what it would cost to make this yourself. Just the Gouda, white Cheddar, Asiago, Parmesan and Romano alone would probably use up all that $3.49. One 290 calorie serving of this is also pretty filling and satisfying. A little goes a long way as a side to some lighter fare.
Price $3.49 per 12 ounce box
Calories 290 per serving (2 servings per box)
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01/12/2018
January 12, 2018
For a 4-year-old cheese, this cheese is surprisingly soft, but still firm. There is little crumbling when cut. There are no obvious crystals visible in the cheese. However once in the mouth some very fine crystals can be detected crunching between the teeth. Crystals form as the cheese ages.
This is a very tasty cheddar with a nice and noticeable amount of natural sharpness. The sharpness lingers on the back of the tongue long after the cheese has left the mouth. A little cheese goes a long way. Unlike some other cheddars, the word sharp on the label has real meaning. Some people may find this too sharp. Without doing a side by side comparison, this is the best cheddar at TJ I’ve reviewed so far.
Calories 120 per ounce, price $8.99 per pound
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01/12/2018
January 12, 2018
So light you’ll eat the whole bag and never notice it. That is until you step on the scale.
These are mildly sweet, gently flavored cinnamon and apple, multi-grain snacks. Like all snacks they’re easy to like and even easier to eat. The grains used are; corn flour, rice flour, and potato fiber (I know, not a grain). They’re labelled gluten-free.
The really interesting thing about these is the shape. They are small hollow tubes. How do they do it?
Price $2.49 per 6 oz. bag
Calories 140 per ounce (28g)
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01/07/2018
January 7, 2018
Recently reviewed here was a Trader Joe’s Parmesan cheese. That was found to be okay, but nothing very special. Today, reviewed is a Parmigiano Reggiano Stravecchio cheese imported from Italy by Trader Joe’s. The first question is, what is stravecchio? Stravecchio simply means; old, mature or extra aging. This cheese is aged for 36 months, or 3 years, depending on how you count time.
In comparison to the previously reviewed TJ Parmesan cheese, this cheese is still hard, but easier to cut because it tends to crumble somewhat. As for flavor, there’s no comparison. This cheese is tons more flavorful and complex. There’s some nuttiness to the flavor but also hints of sweetness contained in an earthy base.
This is a very nice cheese to snack on. It would be difficult to use this for a cheese tray, as it does not cut well into nicely shaped cubes due to its crumbly nature. For cooking and sprinkling on salads, I still prefer the inexpensive everyday grated cheeses in the plastic containers. At $14.99 a pound, this is a cheese that really needs to be savored by itself, rather than diluted with other food. And when it is savored by itself, it’s a savoring experience.
Price $14.99 per pound Calories, 110 per ounce (28g)
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01/07/2018
January 7, 2018
This is a very nice cheese with a very good flavor. The cheese is sharp, but I wouldn’t call it extra sharp as the label does. The cheese is nicely aged to a crumbly consistency. The cheese should be good for cooking as it melted nicely with a quick microwave test. Per the label, the cheese is produced by a farmer’s cooperative, which is nice to know in this age of mega-scale industrial food production. As a domestic cheese from the Northeast, it’s reasonably priced to boot.
Price $6.99 per pound Calories 110 per ounce (28g)
Tags:cabot, calories, cheddar, cheese, extra sharp cheddar cheese, food, nutrition, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's
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01/02/2018
January 2, 2018
This is a fairly spicy chili leaving a lingering heat at back of the roof of the mouth. However with the heat are overtones of sweet. There’s a lot of tomato sauce in this chili, giving it a different flavor profile than most of the usual canned chili suspects on the supermarket shelves. Along with the meat are two types of beans in the chili. Jalapeno is listed on the label, which also helps explain part of the different flavor profile. If you’re open to a different flavor in your chili, you might like this. If you have a favorite brand of chili that you love, this may not be to your liking.
With recent low temperatures here at around -22 C (it always seems much colder using Celsius), this is a good winter warmer-upper. For the environmentally inclined, chili with beans may also be a potential untapped source of a recycled fossil fuel. And it may be the all-convincing proof that global warming really is man-made.
Price – $1.99 per 15 ounce can
Calories – 210 per serving (about 2 servings per can)
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12/20/2017
December 20, 2017
Don’t open this in the presence of law enforcement. There’s enough powered sugar loosely coating this cake to make your kitchen look like a coke lab.
The cake part is a little dry and tasteless. The raisins are sweet and moist. The marzipan and small pieces of candied fruit are even sweeter. When you get enough fillings with the cake in one bite, it all comes together in the mouth. While this cake is not bad, unless you really like this kind of cake it might be better to save your calories for something else.
Price $3.49
Calories 340 per 1/6 slice of cake
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12/09/2017
December 9, 2017
ALDI has some surprisingly good chocolates. This is one of them. Without saying another word about these, they are really really good.
If you’re on a budget pick up one of these as a holiday present for your kid’s teacher. If you’re not on a budget, get two. They’re worth half a grade point on the kid’s next report card. Cheaper than a tutor!
Price $3.99 per box
Calories 190 per 3 piece serving (16 pieces in the box)
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February 9, 2018
Again, half the container was more than adequate as a side to dinner. While I prepared this in the microwave, using the oven, taking another 20 minutes or so, might add a nice browning to the top. But I leave that experiment for you.
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