I was surprised to see these at Trader Joe’s. Frankly they looked more to me like like eggs you might find at Whole Foods or your local Farmer’s Market. But I bet those would charge somewhere between 8 and 10 dollars for these, not six bucks.
They say: “Laid by heirloom chickens living in a free range, open air environment. Especially excellent for omelettes”. I didn’t try them yet as these are Medium sized and I tend towards buying Extra Large eggs but these do look really interesting and quite gourmet. Said to have a very deep colored rich amber yolk.
By the way, my limited city-boy understanding of why eggs are white, brown or a color like these is that its related to the breed of the chicken who made them. In simple terms white chickens lay white eggs, while brown chickens lay brown eggs, etc. Besides brown and white, some breeds also lay blue or green eggs, like Araucanas, due to other pigments.
Trader Joe’s Free Range Heirloom Fresh Blue and Brown eggs (medium) $5.99/dozen
Brown or white, all eggs are equal nutritionally if the chickens are fed the same diet. My wife says brown eggs are “better” than white ones but thats not quite the case.
“To herald the coming of summer, we’re offering Wildberry Cheesecake Ice Cream, featuring the vibrance of wild berries and bits of cheesecake. That’s right: in addition to a dreamy, sweet-cream ice cream base, you’ll find a generous mixed berry swirl (made with blueberries, elderberry juice concentrate, and a blend of raspberry, strawberry & blackberry purees) and tender bits of classic cheesecake.” – Trader Joe’s
Apparently Trader Joe’s had this two years ago, then it vanished. It’s finally made a come back. Someone on Reddit called this a “hidden gem”.
This lists first three ingredient as “cream, milk, cane sugar…” Yes this is actually Ice Cream. Not “ice cream style frozen dessert” . Just compare this to the fake-y tasting “Gelato Style Frozen Dessert” I reviewed. That stuff had coconut oil as the third ingredient. Here the ingredient list here reads like what you expect when you buy ice cream. If you like cheesecake, and see it, I would give it a try. I really liked it.
INGREDIENTS include : Cream, milk, cane sugar, cheesecake pieces…mixed berry swirl with blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, elderberry…
I was on the check out line, next to the ice cream case, and a worker was putting these in the case. There wasn’t even a sign for this ice cream yet but I was intrigued at the name of it. I asked him if he tried it and he said, yes he did and loved it.
So I got one to try. My honest review? Soo good; this is a delicious ice cream that tastes exactly like it’s name. It actually has little pieces of cheese cake in the ice cream mixed with swirls of berry. I found this on target. As good as something Ben and Jerry’s would come out with. It’s a delicious summer treat.
We enjoyed this for July 4th and to make it even more special I added fresh blueberries on top which of course made it even better with fresh fruit.
One thing to note though. As it got softer, and melted together, the important texture of the cheese cake pieces vanished, so try to eat this while it is still pretty cold.
Here’s what they have to say about their new SPICY DYNAMITE Sauce: “Made with a base of vegan mayo, the ingredients to our Spicy Dynamite Sauce read like a list of greatest gastronomic hits: Pickled chili peppers! Sesame oil! Garlic! Horseradish-mustard paste! It all adds up to one superlatively full-flavored profile, with notes of heat, sweet, and umami, and a captivatingly creamy texture. We like it on and with everything , and we mean everything: French fries, chicken nuggets, poke bowls, grilled salmon, roasted broccoli, baked potatoes, burgers, sandwiches, fish tacos, scrambled eggs—seriously, you name it, and this Sauce will work like Dynamite.”
First off, let me just state, this is SERIOUSLY spicy. Let me say that again. This is HOT STUFF.
Absolutely spicydelicious as Bourdain used to say. I really liked it. A vegan mayo with a lot of tasty ingredients that will spice up and add flavor to whatever you put it on. And you can put it on everything. I mean everything.
How spicy is it? Very. I quickly realized how spicy this actually was and that a little went a long way. So use sparingly. I just used a few small dollops of it and got the effect. I even toned it down, mixing it into other things, like yogurt and mayonnaise , ketchup, and liked all these sauce combos I made. TIP: When cold it’s quite thick and a little hard to control squeezing a small amount. So do that carefully lest you get too much coming out of the bottle.
This is a very good sauce with a lot of flavor. Just know that its going to bring the heat.
WIKIPEDIA : “Gelato is made from a base of milk, sugar, and sometimes cream and/or egg yolks, similar to ice cream, but with a higher proportion of milk and a lower proportion of cream.“
Trader Joe’s “Italian Pistachio & Fior di Latte Gelato Style Frozen Dessert”, I say the whole thing needs to be in quotation marks, including the word “Italian”
My wife loves pistachio ice cream and saw this and got some for us to try. How is it? Well, to me, this product is a weird one. First off, if you love pistachio, you know its is one of the trickiest flavors to get right. Basically because pistachios are expensive. The pistachio flavor of this “frozen dessert” barely tastes like pistachio. It doesn’t have much pistachio. In fact the word appears way down in the ingredient list.
Yet I find some people on the net raving about this stuff. How they almost ate the whole container at one go. Really? I assume they’ve never had real pistachio ice cream or gelato. Another thing calls this a “chemical box”.
Doesn’t this even look a little weird to you?
Looking closely at the package I start to think about why exactly are they calling this “gelato–style frozen dessert“? Clearly it must be that this is not gelato. I assume they can’t legally say “gelato”, due to ingredients, so them must call it “gelato-style” even further emphasized by the addition of the words “frozen dessert“. When you can’t call your product gelato or ice cream, its a “frozen dessert”. Due to the ingredient list? You know the way American cheese is “cheese product” rather than “cheese”.
I look at the package and examine all the ingredients. Do you see that ingredient listed third? It says “Coconut Oil“? Listed as the third ingredient, the first being “water”. Really? Not milk. Some “whey solids” from something that started as milk somewhere.
Ingredients: (Fior di latte flavor): Water, sugar, coconut oil, glucose syrup, non fat dry milk, dextrose, whey solids, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids, spirulina extract…. The pistachio flavor ingredients are almost the same: water, sugar, coconut oil, glucose, etc. And then somewhat down the list it finally says, pistachio.
Anyway if you buy this seeing “gelato” on the package without really reading closely just realize you will be getting “Gelato-Style Frozen Dessert” as opposed to “gelato”.
Product of Italy? Mamma Mia. Trust me, Gelato loving Italians would never eat this “gelato style frozen dessert”. It’s made solely to export to us (dumb) Americans.
I won’t be buying this again. In fact, I came back and asked for a refund (rare)
That five bucks I will use to buy some really good Trader Joe’s ice cream like Mint Chip or Coffee Blast.
Trader Joe’s Italian Pistachio & Fior di Latte Gelato Style Frozen Dessert $4.99
I have found some people praising online this! Me, I would not buy this again.
To each, his own.
Aha – I saw this after I reviewed this calling this product a chemical box: “Trader Joe’s Is Being Slammed By Shoppers for Their New $5 Dessert: It’s a ‘CHEMICAL BOX’
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