Trader Joe's jumps on the Dubai (Style) Chocolate trend with PatisLove's Pistachio Dark Chocolate version that's $3.99 for a 3.5 oz bar. Made in Turkey, the bar features a pistachio filling with crunchy kataifi (crunchy filo) bits and it's fantastic. I've been whatever about Dubai Chocolate because of the price and the hype, but this…
With the avalanche of holiday goodies hitting Trader Joe's shelves right now, I bet you missed Trader Joe's Trio of Almonds. I mean, next to the Nuts About Rosemary mix, or even the Spicy Snack Mix in the red can, it'd be easy to bypass this plain brown can. But let me tell you, this…
Trader Joe's already has multiple flavors of cashews and pecans available year round, but for the holidays they dropped Caramel Coffee Cashews and Cocoa Chile Spiced Pecans. I love both cashews and pecans, but between these two, Trader Joe's Caramel Coffee Cashews are the clear winner.
There's just a tiny hint of bitterness from…
One of the things I'm going to do with DailyWaffle is tackle some cuisines and dishes I haven't really cooked at home, starting with Persian food. I'm planning to do injera, the Ethiopian flatbread made with teff flour; Beef Wellington, although the idea of screwing up a gorgeous piece of beef tenderloin is scary; and…
Finally, a rom-com that does food right!
Usually food is an accidental backdrop in a story. Hero and heroine meet cute at a farmers market, or there's a front-of-the-house hookup between host and bartender in a restaurant, but the food is usually window dressing rather than a focus. In the last couple of months, I've read two…
Walnuts. Ruiner of fudgy chocolate brownies, scourge of chocolate chip cookies, I’ve tolerated you, but there’s no love lost between us. You’re slightly bitter and unless you’re incognito, almonds and pecans rocket past you on my list of favorite nuts. Until now. Until this recipe. Paired with sweet maple syrup, you are magnificent.
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While I’ve been waiting for stone fruit to really come in full force, I’ve been baking cookies. It started with some gluten-free peanut butter oat cookies from this month’s mailer from PCC, our local market. Then, the Spice Cookies from Jerusalem. Now, Cowboy Cookies…oats, pecans, chocolate chips, a little coconut. This time, with olive oil instead of butter. There are worse ways to pass the time.
I don't really know why I started thinking about spiced nuts this weekend. Must be something about the sun being lower in the sky, and the cooler weather settling in...and the smell of anything roasting, whether its chiles or chicken or nuts, just feels like fall. I didn't think there was anything that could make pecans and almonds taste even better, until now.