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Trader Joe’s Fans Can’t Believe This Santa Monica Store Feature Shutterstock By Lauren Rothman/July 14, 2021 1:27 pm EST Oh, Trader Joe’s. How we love your cult classics such as Everything but the Bagel Seasoning, cauliflower gnocchi, Mandarin orange chicken, and dark chocolate peanut butter cups. And because we love so many of your offerings, we put up with some of your more disappointing products, such as your squishy, bland black bean and cheese taquitos, your weirdly funky white truffle potato chips, and your not-spicy-enough Sriracha....

Trader Joe’s Mushroom And Black Truffle Flatbread Is A Total Steal Instagram By Aimee Lamoureux/Jan. 30, 2021 12:38 am EST Truffles are like “the diamonds of gastronomy,” according to the co-owner of the truffle distribution company Done4N Francesca Sparvoli (via CNBC). The unique fungi pack an exquisite musky, earthy, and slightly garlicky flavor into every dish, which makes them a coveted ingredient for many fancy meals. However, they are also rare, difficult to grow, and very costly and time-consuming to find....

Trader Joe’s New Peanut Butter Wafer Cookie Has Fans Excited Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/April 12, 2021 1:10 pm EST If you are a big fan of peanut butter and chocolate desserts, then you might think you have already tried all the different versions of the classic combination. However, the popular grocery chain Trader Joe’s is mixing things up with the release of their own peanut butter and chocolate flavored wafer cookie, and this new TJ’s treat is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth....

Trader Joe’s Shoppers Are Psyched For Its New Gluten-Free Almond Flour Tortillas Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Updated: April 27, 2021 4:02 pm EST Trader Joe’s is undoubtedly one of the best places to turn to when you’re looking for healthy options that fit your dietary preferences. According to Real Simple, customers can find quite a few healthy choices while shopping at the store. The best part? Trader Joe’s, as a brand, is not very expensive and is actually within reach....

What Are Sunchokes And What Do They Taste Like? Shutterstock By Michael La Corte/Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 3:01 pm EST Sunchokes, sometimes called Jerusalem artichokes, are a wonderful and unique vegetable option that far too often go overlooked. They are excellent fried, steamed, sautéed, boiled, mashed, roasted, sliced, raw — the list goes on and on. They are packed with nutrition, flavor, and are totally versatile. (We’ll give you a moment to add them to your shopping list....

What Is A Pepita And How Do You Eat It? Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Updated: June 2, 2021 9:31 am EST A pepita is basically a pumpkin seed that does not have the shell. However, there is a difference. Think about pepitas as seeds that have been taken from certain types of pumpkins that do not need to be shelled. So yeah, you would be right to think that not all pumpkin seeds are pepitas, but all pepitas are pumpkin seeds....

Why Parmesan Cheese Is About To Become Way More Expensive Shutterstock By Hope Ngo/Feb. 1, 2021 12:05 am EST Around a year ago, the world was shocked out of its fog of 2020 optimism, with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic which completely upended life as we knew it. Toilet paper disappeared. Items like oat milk flew off grocery shelves while producers faced a glut of inventory and restaurants shut down....

Why You Should Keep A Mesh Ironing Board In The Kitchen Shutterstock By Naomi Kennedy/June 14, 2021 1:13 pm EST Who doesn’t love the smell of fresh-baked cookies wafting through the air around the house? Whether you are prepping some goodies for a bake sale, holiday party, or simply want to have a few homemade snacks on hand for when your sweet tooth starts calling, we can all agree that a baking day is good for the soul....

You’ve Been Holding Your Kitchen Knife All Wrong Shutterstock By Erica Gerald Mason/Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 4:22 pm EST Dinner time roll call: cutting board, check. Veggies? Check. Kitchen knife? Check. But wait — before you start dicing, mincing, or chopping, maybe you should start by brushing up on your knife-holding skills. Wait again — before you really get started, note that none of the following tips will help if your cutting board is wobbly....

Chick-Fil-A Fans Are Losing It Over This Cheesy Spicy Chicken Sandwich Hack Bloomberg/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/March 18, 2021 6:02 pm EST If you asked, the nice people who work at Chick-fil-A surely would be happy to add a slice of cheese to your chicken sandwich. The deluxe sandwich, in fact, already has a cheesy option right on the menu. But for the ultimate in extra cheese (and extra carbs), you might want to follow the lead of the social media account @grubspot, which specializes in decadent fast food hacks....

Costco Shoppers Are Losing It Over This Affordable Crème Brûlée Instagram By Aimee Lamoureux/April 9, 2021 7:35 pm EST Most Costco fans already know there are all kinds of delicious desserts available for purchase in their baked goods department, which hosts a wide variety of freshly baked cakes, pies, and pastries. However, some people may not know that they can also find satisfying sweets in the refrigerated section of the wholesale store, like Costco’s recently re-released popular créme brûlée....

Don’t Make This Easy Mistake With Mexican Wedding Cookies Shutterstock By Molly Harris/Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 4:49 pm EST Somewhere along the way, there’s a good chance that you’ve eaten from or at least seen a plate of shortbread cookies spotted with pecans and dusted in confectioner’s sugar (via Went Here 8 This). You might know these cookies to be Russian tea cookies, Mexican wedding cookies, Viennese crescents, snowballs, or polvorones as they are actually called in Mexico (via Food52)....

Easy Spicy Tuna Sushi Roll Recipe Ksenia Prints/Mashed By Ksenia Prints/June 8, 2021 11:29 am EST Sushi has always had an air of mystique to it, according to food blogger and photographer Ksenia Prints of At the Immigrant’s Table. Thanks to movies like “Jiro Dreams of Sushi,” the astronomical price of most high-grade sushi dinners, and the popularity of sushi as a “celebration meal,” we have developed of view of sushi as fancy and out of reach for most of us....

Exciting News For Chick-Fil-A Spicy Chicken Fans Facebook By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/Updated: April 13, 2021 9:26 am EST Chick-fil-A began testing Spicy Chick-n-Strips in Philadelphia and in Texas in 2017. In January 2020, Chick-fil-A expanded the test, adding the strips to the menus of additional Chick-fil-A restaurants in Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina (via The Chickenwire). Soon, the Atlanta-based fast food giant will begin offering them more broadly at select locations in Tampa, Chicago, and Central Texas beginning April 26 (via Chewboom)....

Here’s How Much Ina Garten’s Husband Jeffrey Is Worth Mark Davis/Getty Images By Adrianna MacPherson/May 20, 2021 11:40 am EST Any fan of Ina Garten aka The Barefoot Contessa will likely also be familiar with her husband of over 50 years, Jeffrey Garten. He makes occasional appearances on her many television programs, and in 2016, was even the focus of one of Ina’s cookbooks — the appropriately titled “Cooking for Jeffrey” (via The Barefoot Contessa)....

Here’s What You Can Substitute For Rice Wine Shutterstock By Amy Hamblen/Feb. 22, 2021 5:28 am EST Is there anything more frustrating than having your kitchen prepped to cook the perfect meal, pulling out all the ingredients, and realizing you are one element short? (Been there, done that, had to pull up the delivery apps.) Sometimes, of course, you can make a substitution and still end up with tasty results. Rice wine is one of those ingredients, for example, that you can swap out, and you don’t even have to be an enophile to work this one out....

How Much It Really Costs To Open A Hungry Howie’s Pizza Franchise Facebook By Liz Barrett Foster/Jan. 28, 2021 11:57 am EST Hungry Howie’s Pizza may have started in 1973, but this Michigan-based pizza chain didn’t garner much consumer attention until it launched its popular — and innovative — Flavored Crust in the 1980s. In addition to a rotating feature crust, there are eight Flavored Crusts to choose from at Hungry Howie’s, including butter, onion, Asiago cheese, butter cheese, sesame, Cajun, garlic herb, and ranch....

Instant Pot Sorghum Recipe Miriam Hahn/Mashed By Miriam Hahn AND Mashed Staff/July 12, 2021 3:05 pm EST You may consider this grain to be a pretty simple and humble ingredient, but sorghum has many different uses and names, including great millet, durra, and milo (via Britannica). It can also be used in many different recipes. It’s the fifth most produced grain in the world, according to Statista, falling behind the more commonly used rice and corn....

Lay’s New Mashup Flavors Combine These Popular Products Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/July 27, 2021 8:05 am EST There’s just something uniquely satisfying about potato chips. The crispy, crunchy, salty, and savory snack just manages to satisfy just about every single part of the snack craving, making it the perfect snack for parties and picnics and just about everything in between. And with the wide variety of chip flavors on the market these days, you can’t really get bored with chips when there is always something new to try....

Mario Batali Will Pay A Large Settlement In Sexual Harassment Case Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images By Joe Nasta/July 23, 2021 12:18 pm EST An investigation into sexual harassment allegations against chef Mario Batali, his business partner, Joe Bastianich, and their former restaurant holding company, once known as Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group, has come to a close, according to a report from the New York Times. The company, which is now called Pasta Resources, owns and operates several restaurants, including Babbo, Lupa, and the now-closed Del Posto in Manhattan....