Fried rice is a good quantity as well. Very small broccoli florets, and bits of carrots and peas.
Sauce packet is heated up in hot water and is also decent in flavor.
BUT - after the sauce packet goes on, the bowl doesn’t look anything like the picture on the package. Of course it didn’t! It’s nuked.
Mine after adding the sauce packet and stirring it in. The chicken doesn’t have the crispiness it should since it’s microwaved, nor does it hold ANY of the sauce packet as a glaze as their picture shows.
The taste, however, is very close to the regular-sized box of frozen MOC they sell. Would I buy it again? Maybe. Convenient, but I also buy the Mandarin Orange Chicken big box from TJs and/or BJ’s Wholesale Club on occasion, so I’d rather buy those and make it that wayf so the chicken is crispy(er) and glazed appropriately. Or make it myself from the Skinny Orange Chicken recipe found at Gimme Some Oven.
A big YEA! for TJs Gingerbread ice cream (pint sized).
I was hesitant to buy it several weekends ago, because a previous favorite, pumpkin, changed several years ago and ended up with an “off” taste.
But I figured a single pint wouldn’t break me, and I’m glad I bought it. Not overly sweet, a nice gingery caramely sauce is blended in to a gingery ice cream that gives a slight bit of heat after swallowing a spoonful.
Supposedly there are crumbled TJs Triple Gingersnaps in the ice cream (which has been a favorite of mine for years!), but I haven’t yet encountered any. That’s OK. I have a tub of them that I can do my own crumbling.
Could you identify what you didn’t care for? It may be a bit tangier / more fermented than others I’ve had (but I rarely eat it straight, it’s usually mixed into something or other).
ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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BIG YEA for the Aussie-Style Chocolate Crème Sandwich Cookies. My aunt got me hooked on them recently, bad aunt! (Keep them in the fridge if you buy them, they’re fantastic cold.)
Yea: Almond butter-filled pretzel nuggets. My intention was to grab a bag of the peanut butter-filled pretzels, but the shelf was bare, so i decided to try these. In my experience, almond butter versions of things are sometimes lacking in flavor compared to their PB counterparts, but these delivered as well as the PB ones – crunchy, salty, just slightly sweet, and nutty. All the things that make them irresistible.
Porchetta is back! That was a YEA for me last time I’ve had it, but I haven’t had it in a few years because it’s around for a very limited time and my timing was always wrong. Anyway, I’m hoping it’s as good as I remember, and if you want to get one snap it up now because it won’t be around for long.
Last Sunday my usual TJ’s (Masonic in SF) was like that. Parking lot nearly full before the doors had even opened. Maybe everyone’s leftovers only lasted through Saturday so on Sunday they all had to go shopping.
I wish there were smaller ones! I was so tempted, but they were over 4 lbs and I just don’t have the capacity or the freezer space, so I begrudgingly looked away.
Meanwhile, there is more tempting “holiday” app-style stuff than I can possibly consume.
They’re clearly committed on expanding their Korean selection – I picked up a new (to me at least) fully-cooked, frozen bulgogi main (pretty well-priced at 11.99 vs the frozen galbi at 16.99 in nyc, probably a buck or two less elsewhere). There was also spicy tteokbokki, pajeon / scallion pancakes, hotteok / sweet pancakes, beef-less bulgogi and bulgogi fried rice (NAY for me). The kimbap have disappeared.
A Biggish Yay for TJ’s Sipping Chocolate. Biggish 'cause the recipe on the tin is nuts imo. Three TABLESPOONS per 3/4 cup of liquid. Didn’t say heaping or leveled. I do 2 heaping teaspoons in a 12oz mug with 3/4 water & 1/4 milk.
Nay - first/last Kringle. This one almond. Way WAY too sweet, even after I peeled off all the icing. It was only ok after that and warmed up in the toaster oven. Good enough to finish. Not good enough to repeat. I’d take the TJ almond croissants anyday over this, and they’re cheaper too.
I’m sure there is. Some people love their sugar unadulterated. Me, I’m more of a sweet and savory. A European pastry where the filling is somewhat sweet but the pastry isn’t is the winning combination. IMO.
