Posts Tagged ‘price’
12/17/2010
520 calories and no pig fat. I hope exercise is part of this diet, because a diet of this Pad Thai is going to require a fair amount of exercise.
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Tags:calories, food, pad thai, price, review, reviews, tj's, trader joe's, vegan, vegetable pad thai, vegetarian
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's, Vegetarian | 3 Comments »
12/12/2010
The national dish of England. Huh?
What happened to fish and chips, kidney pie and warm ale?
Has the whole world gone bonkers?
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Tags:calories, chicken tikka masala, exotic, food, frozen box lunches, indian, lunch, price, review, tj's, trader joe's
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12/11/2010
Even though I always pick up a bottle or two of Charles Shaw wine when at Trader Joe’s, I’ve never written about one. So here goes. It’s a head-to-head taste test between the Charles Shaw Shiraz and a D’aquino Gaetano Sangiovese. California versus Italy. Good thing this isn’t soccer.
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Tags:charles shaw, charles shaw shiraz 2008, food, inexpensive wines, price, review, shiraz, tj's, trader joe's, wine
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12/04/2010
Trader Joe just can’t be happy having one very good olive oil, he has to confuse us with a second one.
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Tags:calories, comparison, extra virgin, food, olive oil, Penelope Cruz, price, review, reviews, spanish, spanish olive oil, tj's, trader joe's
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's | 3 Comments »
11/25/2010
The crew will be climbing down from the rigging when this pops out of the microwave.
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Tags:calories, channa, channa masala, exotic, food, frozen box lunches, indian, indian food, masala, price, review, side dish, tj's, trader joe's, vegetarian
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's, Vegetarian | Leave a Comment »
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.
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Tags:food, identity crisis, identity crisis chips, price, review, salsa, torilla chips, tortilla chips with an identity crisis, trader joe's
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's | 4 Comments »
08/22/2010
Trader 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.
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Tags:cooking, food, italian, olive oil, president's reserve, price, review, reviews, tj, tj's, trader joe's, trader joe's extra virgin olive oil, trader joe's president's reserver extra virgin olive oil
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's | 2 Comments »
07/24/2010
Having been low on wine for at least a month, I made a long overdue trip to the Trader today. While there, of course, it’s impossible to just come out of the store with what you thought you were going in for. So here’s a tasty extra which goes pretty good with the wine.
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Tags:BelGioioso Asiago cheese, calories, chef knife, cutting board, food, price, review, salami, trader joe's, Trader Joe's Chianti Artisan Salami, volpi, volpi salami
Posted in Recipes, food, cooking and related items, Trader Joe's | 1 Comment »