Kitchen

[Chi-town girl]

Anxiously awaiting the Spring order of the Danish Kringle 

Anything new from TJ's  that you have tried or would recommend???

With this item, we can officially say, Spring has Sprung 

Extraordinary Eggs Marbled Chocolates

Like a hen incubating her eggs, the French confectioners who’ve hatched up Trader Joe’s Extraordinary Eggs undertake a real labor of love—one requiring lots of patient, confectionery skill.

There are four kinds of Eggs, each with a unique flavor profile at its center. For the green ones, our supplier’s pastry cooks make the centers out of sugar and ground almonds. The mixture is slowly heated in copper kettles until it reaches just the right texture and color—a process requiring the attention of an actual human. There is no computer or automated system that could yield the same quality praline.

The other three varieties require a similar level of care and craftsmanship. The pink ones are made using real raspberry puree. The orange ones have pure, creamy caramel at their center. The centers of the yellow ones are made from actual cookie pieces.

Next, our confectioners carefully “pan” the core of these Eggs—tumbling them in a rotating cylinder to gently coat them with chocolate ganache. The ganache is made using pure cocoa butter (no vegetable oils or fats), and a generous amount of milk for extra creamy texture.

Once the ganache layer has dried, the Eggs are panned again, this time to add color—each bright hue derived only from naturally available products, such as sweet potato juice and spirulina. When the colors have dried, our Extraordinary Eggs are panned a final time with gum Arabic (from the sap of the acacia tree), giving them their glossy shine.

Trader Joe’s Extraordinary Eggs Marbled Chocolates are not only delectable to eat, they are artful candies; their visual splendor emphasized by the golden tray in which they’re presented. This highly giftable, 6.5 ounce package of sixteen Marbled Chocolates (four of each color/flavor) is $4.99—not at all what you’d expect to pay for a French-made confection of this caliber. 

[Chi-town girl]

We  TJ's frozen Mac n Cheese. Will pick this up next trip! 

Radio - Hatch Chile Mac & Cheese

LISTEN to the radio spot!

READ the radio script:

The next time you’re in the mood for mac and cheese, hatch a plan to head to your neighborhood Trader Joe’s to find something a little different.

This is Tara Miller of Trader Joe’s. There’s an art to making macaroni and cheese, a delicate balance of al dente pasta and rich, melty cheese. One wrong move and it all goes awry. Yet an unexpected addition, a flavor you may not have considered, can make simple mac and cheese seem like something entirely new and incredibly exciting. That’s Trader Joe’s Hatch Chile Mac & Cheese.

Hatch Chile Mac & Cheese is a spot-on celebration of everything that’s good about mac and cheese, and everything that’s good about Hatch Chiles from New Mexico. Which is everything. Every spoonful delivers elbow macaroni, aged Cheddar cheese sauce, and chopped, roasted, green chiles from New Mexico’s Hatch Valley. You may not have tasted this before; but you’ll definitely want to taste it again.

We’re selling each 12 ounce package of Hatch Chile Mac & Cheese for $2.99. You’ll find it in our freezers.

[tucsongal]

OMG Hatch Mac and cheese! I was just there but wasn't looking for anything new. I do have two lovely bunches of daffodils in full bloom on my table

[GCR18]

I went to Trader Joe's last weekend.  It's 100 miles away, so I don't go often.  Haven't been since last April.  Anyway, I was surprised there weren't more new items.  I was a little underwhelmed.  

[DiAnne]

I have three Trader Joe's fairly close to me so I go there often.  I get frustrated when I find something I really like and then they discontinue it!  It seems like they are constantly changing. 

[BornToShop]

@GCR18 & @DiAnne, I am truly trying to find the charm.  Granted, my first TJ experience was within this past year.  A new mini TJ opened up near me.  DH & I have been there a few times.  So far, there is nothing that draws me, my time & money to continue shopping there.  I am really trying hard to be a TJ fan. Your posts confirm to me I will probably move on.  

[GCR18]

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@BornToShop wrote:

@GCR18 & @DiAnne, I am truly trying to find the charm.  Granted, my first TJ experience was within this past year.  A new mini TJ opened up near me.  DH & I have been there a few times.  So far, there is nothing that draws me, my time & money to continue shopping there.  I am really trying hard to be a TJ fan. Your posts confirm to me I will probably move on.  

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@BornToShop

Sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression I don't like Trader Joe's.  I was disappointed there weren't that many new items.  In the past, they seemed to have a steady stream of new items.  It seems lately, they bring in things just for holidays.  That's just my observation.  I like to get cheese, frozen veggies, appetizers, scallops there. I could never do all my grocery shopping there.

[ceekay]

Thanks to you enablers...  I tried the hatch mac & cheese.  Pretty tasty.  But the real winner is those marbelized eggs.  I like to put a little something sweet at each place at the Easter table and these will be perfect.  Not too big, not too small.  And I tried one of each flavor and they were all delicious.  I am a  regular TJ shopper but probably would not have noticed either of these items without this topic.  So, thanks!

Ps - enjoying the daffodils too.  Will have to go back and get some for my mom.