With Spring just arrived and Easter right around the corner, Trader Joe's new products are multiplying like bunnies. This week's roundup of what's new (and returning) is kind of massive. New items mentioned on the last episode of Inside Trader Joe's are in, as are some brand new surprises! Let's get to it.
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In 2002, Trader Joe's introduced Charles Shaw wines, forever altering the "extreme value" segment of the wine industry. Nicknamed Two Buck Chuck, it cost $1.99 a bottle. Sixteen years later, news outlets are *still* writing about it. Trader Joe's wine selection (the lesser known labels) is hit and miss for me, but a friend recently…
If you've heard of Walla Walla, Washington, the first thing you think of is sweet onions. But over the the years, wine and grapes have been muscling in on that territory. It's in Eastern Washington, about a four hour drive from Seattle. A couple of weekends ago, we got in the car, crossed the Snoqualmie Pass and drove out for Nocking Point Wines’ spring release party. The pet project of ‘Arrow’ star Stephen Amell and his buddy Drew, Nocking Point is a small label with wines created by a few different winemakers. The party, held at sports bar in Walla Walla, gave us an opportunity to head out east and see some of Washington, at least I, hadn’t seen before.
Every summer I say, this is the summer I'm really going to make some amazing raspberry or blackberry jam. But something about sterilizing the jars and waiting for that suctioning pop just still seems complicated to me. So I've been sticking with refrigerator jam. And today, since the summer heat is taking its own sweet time to arrive (and I discovered my Maggie Beer is way past its expiration), I made dried fig and port jam with black mission figs.
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