Trader Joe’s yea/nay/meh 2021

I use the chili sauce in thousand island dressing too. Helps to use it up faster.

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Good idea - thanks!

Classic recipe! Mine is essentially the same, though I use Trader Joe’s ketchup and sometimes add a touch of cayenne.

How do you make your thousand island dressing? I used to hate it but now I’ve found I like it on a few things. Plus I have most of a jar of chili sauce :slight_smile:

Mayo, relish (Cains please!) and ketchup or chilii sauce if you like a bite to it.
S&P, maybe some lemon juice and mix it up. I just kind of eye ball it these days so maybe
3 tablespoons mayo to 1 tablespoon ketchup and relish?
I try to let it sit a bit to meld.
Good on burgers and sandwiches, we always had it with Cobb or Chef’s salad.

My mom made a creamy french which was the above without the relish. Slathered on cucumbers.

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Found this today at the Peabody MA store, in the new product section. Think we will be having some wings on the 4th of July!

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I make my cocktail sauce as ya’ll do above. Chili sauce if I have it, but usually ketchup, horseradish, fresh lemon, and dash of Worcestershire too. Thousand Island gets pickle relish, and very finely minced onion. Soooo much better for both than anything you can buy. I use a very spicy horseradish from Idaho, Corden’s.

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What is Cain’s Relish?

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https://www.famousfoods.com/cainsrelishes.html

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In the normal course of things I make cocktail sauce just like you do. For special, I make my own ketchup:

6 oz can tomato paste
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
1/4 cup water (mix in a little at a time - need less for moist onions)
1 tsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup minced onion 
2 cloves garlic pureed

Stick blender.

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I’m gonna have to try ketchup from scratch- thanks

Thanks :blush:

I’ve kept Heinz chili sauce in the fridge for well over a year. It keeps just fine.

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I’ve never seen a ketchup recipe that didn’t involve clove. Think about it and you realize that indeed, there’s clove in Heinz.

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Many recipes and definitions of 1000 island dressing specify finely minced hard-cooked egg. It makes for a richer, thicker dressing.

Hmm. Heinz ketchup ingredients list online says “special blend of spices and flavorings” (https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000004640) and the one in my pantry says “salt, spice, onion powder.” Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup) says clove is a common ingredient and cites http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Ketchup.html .

I don’t miss it (or coriander or mustard or …) in the recipe I posted above. Pure speculation on my part, I wonder if clove and other spices are there to balance the cane sugar or corn syrup in most recipes.

I did taste the Heinz ketchup we have open and can’t say that I specifically taste clove. Mostly I taste tomato, vinegar, and sugar.

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Yes, I have seen that, but just doesn’t do it for me. Although I have made egg salad with thousand island dressing. But then I add sriracha or franks to the mix.

Although I’ve tasted clove in many other brands of ketchup, I’ve never detected it in Heinz. IMO that flavor doesn’t belong in ketchup.

I made ketchup one summer and decided that 1) it was too much work, and 2) that I prefer Heinz. (I’m from Pittsburgh, and it’s a felony to prefer any other brand.)

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