Tuesday, January 20, 2009 , the wee hours

Shopping at Trader Joe’s

For Christmas we were given a bit of money, which we decided to use on a shopping spree at Trader Joe’s.  While the food there isn’t overly expensive, it’s not really a place where it’s practical for us to shop, and we find that we end up buying a lot of items which would otherwise be considered “luxuries”.  A few things we purchased ended up being incredibly wonderful, and I have to recommend that you try the Spicy Spinach Flatbread pizza (add grated parmesan), green chile and cheese tamales, the frozen chocolate croissants (you let them rise and cook them yourself), the raspberry creme brulee, fresh scones (if they’re available at your store—I enjoy both the current and lingonberry), and the peach/blueberry panna cotta (yes, we like our desserts!).  We also really enjoyed the strawberry kefir, which was like a yogurt smoothie, and supposedly quite healthy.  I can’t recommend the Olympiad Greek pizza… blech.  It was supposed to be roasted peppers, olives, feta, and mozzarella, but it was was so lacking flavour that it wasn’t much different than a REALLY cheap frozen generic pizza.  In fact, that’s what both Flippy and I thought it tasted like… crappy frozen pizza, like the kind available thirty years ago.  We were also torn about the Ham and Gruyere flatbread “pizza” that we tried—the crust was very thin, flaky, and tasty, but the cheese ended up being really greasy and a bit overwhelming.  It was a nice taste combination which just didn’t present very well.

I guess TJ’s can be happy that we only had complaints about two items, and otherwise, we’ll buy all the other products again.  We still have beef/red chile tamales in the freezer, as well as little escargot brioches that we need to try. 

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 01/20 at 01:50 AM
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