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Trader Joe’s new tomato sauce Alla Checca is pretty basic: Tomatoes, garlic and extra virgin olive oil, and cooked “just enough.”

Over the years, Trader Joe’s has had some spectacularly horrible pastas, so much so that ever since that bite of chalky mush that I spat out a few years ago I’ve been hesitant to try any new ones.
Curiosity finally got the better of me and I picked up a package of this.
I was pleasantly [...]

Several weeks ago, after an evening of Korean barbecue for dinner, Mom put down a bowl of what looked like little, fat pink and yellow dragons in front of me. Eat them! They were for dessert, but I had no idea what they were nor how to attack the little spiny monsters.
They were lychees! Up [...]

We conducted a .59 cent green olive taste test in my house this week thanks to Trader Joe’s. The Eagle Rock branch was running an introductory special on Crespo’s pitted green olives packaged in a Euro-chic “snack pouch.”

Trader Joe’s has been selling three interesting new flavors of corn chips, in a move that looks sure to be imitated by Frito Lay in about two years. With such Doritos filling the gas station racks with flavors like black pepper jack, ranchero, and Salsa Verde, it is to me both [...]

dailygluttony sold me on the Trader Joe’s Tuna in Red Panang Curry Sauce, and it may be la.foodblogging’s TJ’s dish of the month. I gave it a try in my own test kitchen and here are the results.

It took me a little while to find the tuna in the store, it wasn’t next to the [...]

Just a few of the foodie things I don’t have time to do this weekend but wish I did:
1. Page through the Don’t Eat That! flickr pool.
2. Make a big batch of Arnold Palmers with Mariage Freres black Marco Polo tea and those ripe meyer lemons hanging on my neighbor’s tree.
3. Stare longingly at [...]

As you may have noticed, the weather last weekend was amazing, and it looks to be warm again this weekend. Last Sunday my fiancee and I took advantage of the weather and headed to Malibu’s Surfrider Beach for a picnic. Instead of assembling sandwiches and bagging chips, I headed to Trader Joe’s to pick up [...]