Yay or Nay on 3 New Trader Joe’s Items (Not Pumpkin Edition)

Now that the initial wave of excitement over Pumpkinpalooza has died down a little bit, I thought we'd do a quick Yay or Nay on three new not pumpkin/maple Trader Joe's items. NAY -- I fully expected to like Trader Joe's Cheesy Seasoning blend. It seemed like the perfect thing for popcorn, but you'll…

ByMichelleOctober 5, 20211Comment

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Corn and Cheese Arepas

Trader Joe's Corn and Cheese Arepas. They come two to a box, individually wrapped, and I opted to bake them in the oven. I should have gone the stovetop route to get that nice browning on them. And I know you're gonna ask...yes, you can probably throw these in the air fryer and get better…

ByMichelleJune 24, 20210Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Cheese Bites with Tomato and Chili

Trader Joe's is bringing a third option to it's line up of oven-baked cheese bites. Moon Cheese lovers everywhere must be thrilled. It started with the basic cheddar and parm, moved on to truffle, and now we've got Trader Joe's Cheese Bites with Tomato and Chili. When Matt and Tara were talking about them on…

ByMichelleMarch 25, 20210Comments

Food News

6 New Spring Products to Be on the Lookout for at Trader Joe’s

On the latest episode of Inside Trader Joes, Tara and Matt spotlighted six new Trader Joe's products to put on your shopping list, and highlighted a few other recent additions to TJ's shelves. I stopped in to my local store yesterday and spotted two of the new items. First up, Trader Joe's newest Spotlight…

ByMichelleMarch 11, 20210Comments

Events Restaurants

Say Cheese: Get to Know Pecorino Toscano DOP

Pecorino Toscano, a sheep's milk cheese, is produced as the name suggests, in Tuscany. But it's not just where it's made. With Pecorino Toscano DOP, all elements must come from the region as well. The DOP mark confirms the milk and production process meet the consortium's standards and help ensure a unique, high-quality product. Cheesemaking…

ByMichelleNovember 14, 20190Comments

Main Course Recipes

Grilled Asparagus and Halloumi Sandwiches

Asparagus is in: Grill 'em if you Got 'em For lunch earlier this week, I started where I often start around this time of year. I pulled some asparagus out of the crisper drawer and started to prep them. Conventional wisdom about snapping them where they naturally snap is out, so I cut off the…

ByMichelleMay 10, 20180Comments

Appetizers Recipes

Brazilian Cheese Bread Is a Perfect New Year’s Eve Appetizer

Inspired by Acacia Santos, the heroine in Sylvain Reynard's new romantic suspense novel, The Man in the Black Suit, I made pão de queijo, or Brazilian cheese bread. Authentically made with sour cassava flour, the best I could do on short notice was tapioca flour from Bob's Red Mill, and still the result is pretty…

ByMichelleDecember 19, 20170Comments

Events

How to Get a Taste of Feast Portland, Even if You Can’t Go

A post shared by Feast Portland (@feastportland) on Sep 10, 2017 at 10:46am PDT Feast Portland is here! You have one last chance to take off work on Friday afternoon and get tickets for the Friday Grand Tasting. Can't do it? There IS still a way you can get a taste of Feast Portland. Back…

ByMichelleSeptember 14, 20170Comments

Cooking Recipes Side Dishes

Hatch Chile Time: Cheesy Green Chile Polenta

We're right in the sweet spot of chile season. We're a couple of weeks in on Hatch chile roasting; Anaheims, poblanos, jalapenos and serranos are plentiful at the farmers market, and we're eating chile every way possible. It's funny though, spicy food isn't really part of Seattle's DNA, and yet all the supermarkets only got…

ByMichelleAugust 25, 20160Comments

Baking Cooking Pizza Recipes

Now It Feels Like Summer: Fig, Pancetta & Haloumi Pizza

Now it feels like summer. We've had a run of crazy beautiful, sunny warm days. It's light until almost 10 p.m. here. All you wanna do is sit outside, fire up the grill and sip a glass of white wine. This fig, pancetta, haloumi pizza/flatbread is exactly the nibble you need to go along with. Now…

ByMichelleJune 26, 20150Comments