Has anyone tried these? I like maple, and I usually like these truffles, but … they sound like they would be insanely sweet.
NAY to the holiday Baklava box.
There’s an odd underlying flavor, maybe from something they used to prevent crystallization or help with shelf stability.
Good proportion of pistachios and nice pastry, though.
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I just had these for lunch, topped with the Grilled Chicken Chimichurri Skewers. I’m giving the noodles a YEA and the chicken a MEH. I personally found the noodles to be reasonably well seasoned and tasty, and really enjoyed the texture. I did think they needed a bit of acidity and I squeezed some lime over the top. A bit of pickled something would have been really good too, but I didn’t have anything to use there. The chicken had a slightly mushy texture that I didn’t love and not much chimichurri vibe, but a nice grilled flavor. I don’t think I’ll buy it again. Anyway, pretty tasty lunch.
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I bought all sorts of dried fruit at TJ’s, to doctor plain yogurt. For the second and final cran/clem yogurt, I stirred in a few pieces of soft&juicy mandarin and dried cranberries, waited 20 minutes before eating. That added the missing flavor.
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Ha ha! So many of us have that memory of that paste.
Meh to the butternut squash mac and cheese. It’s more properly rigatoni in a butternut squash sauce with some cheese and maybe too much sage. Bleh. Kid wouldn’t eat it.
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If anyone is a fan, TJ’s puff pastry is in stock - at least in my local store. I always pick up a few to have during the year.
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Another yea TJ’s Turkish inspired stuffed egg-plant. Nicely seasoned ground beef in or on the inside of each 1/2 an eggplant with some mild slivers of bell(?) pepper, slight mint flavour and a slice of tomato. The only “complaint” was the picture was far more appetizing with bright red tomato and red sauce . Reality, the tomato was decent looking but the tomato sauce was brown rather than red… forgivable.
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That one was a “nay” for us. Not well-seasoned for us, too salty, one-note.
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I decided on a whim to buy a bag of the Thanksgiving Stuffing Seasoned Kettle Chips. (Does anyone buy these sorts of things not on a whim?)
I’m on the fence here: If they were called “Herby Kettle Chips” or something like that I’d probably give them a YEA. They’re good chips, crunchy and not too aggressively salty. But they taste, to me, nothing at all like Thanksgiving stuffing. So I’m downgrading to a slight MEH. If sour cream and onion chips are your kind of thing, I’d definitely recommend giving them a shot.
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That was my worry, that it just tastes aggressively of rosemary and thyme. Most odd Thanksgiving flavored things seem to wind up in the herby/rosemary forward bucket. I like those herbs, but I don’t chew on them just for the flavor!
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Nobody? Guess I’ll pass on those.
Have you had you had the Costco Belgian cookie collection (usually a holiday item)? My niece loves those. If these are comparable, I would gladly pick her up a tin.
Those are always really good! But dangerous for me to have around. I often work on my laptop in the kitchen during the day and I’ll grab “just one more” with my cup of coffee…
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Yes, we had those last year, I think that was my inspiration for trying these.
Will let you know if the TJ ones are as good.
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Combination review: Thai Wheat Noodles and Shaved Lamb Shoulder.
I was planning to make jajangmyeon this week, and thought it might work well with the shaved lamb rather than pork belly as is more traditional. I needed noodles for the dish and was planning to run over to H-Mart, but as I was shopping in TJ’s, I noticed the above mentioned noodles and they seemed like a decent stand-in.
Huge YEA for the lamb. It was delicious, super easy to work with, and I 100% will buy it again. Not much to say here, it’s just thin-shaved lamb. I’ve only ever seen beef like this before and I much prefer lamb for just about every application, so this is a great find for me.
The noodles were good but not quite great. I give them a very tentative YEA. They’re somewhere between bucatini and udon in terms of thickness, and have a little less bounce than I’d like (see below). I’m not sure I’ve ever had noodles like them in a Thai dish, but maybe I’ve missed something there. They worked pretty well for my jajangmyeon.
The problem I had with these: On the package it mentions that you can pan fry them, microwave them, or heat them in boiling water for 30 seconds, and for this dish the last choice was ideal. The noodles are pre-cooked and fairly compressed in their package, and I dropped them in a stock pot of boiling water thinking the block would quickly separate. 30 seconds came and went and they were still in a big chunk. So I broke out some tongs and worked on them for another 90 seconds at least. The result? They were somewhat softer than I would have liked. Certainly not awful, though. I’m not sure if I could have separated them all in advance, nor how painful that would have been, and I used the entire package. But they were only $2.50 and I’m definitely willing to try again.
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That lamb may be one of their best products ATM.
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I forgot I bought those noodles a while back. Thanks for the comments — will think about how to separate them without overcooking.
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YEA for the grass-fed NZ lamb leg.
I broke one down for a few different uses. Tender and flavorful.
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