Halloween Recipes: Jam Cats

Halloween Recipes~ the kids can help make!

Easy Halloween Recipes

Are you searing for some Easy Halloween Recipes to help you celebrate this year?  Then we wrote this  E-Book with you in mind.

Easy Halloween Recipes
is a collection of Breakfast items, snacks, soups and dips that are all easy to make from the products that you buy at Trader Joe’s (OK these recipes are SO easy they don’t even feel like cooking! AND  you can find the ingredients in most grocery stores, but as we LOVE to shop at Trader Joe’s ….why would you go anywhere else??)

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Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter At Trader Joe’s

I never thought I would be writing a post about butter…. But here I am! Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter is just fantastic! This butter has a wonderful “rich” taste that now that I have tried it, I feel that regular butter has sorta lost….

Now, we have been buying Trader Joe’s regular butter for years. We don’t use butter all that much when we cook, but we will have it on toast or sometimes a dab on steamed veggies. It also takes us forever to use up a whole pound of butter. I usually freeze most of the butter to keep it fresh until we get to it.

Well, it was time…. We needed to buy butter again. I was sorta checking out all the offerings of butter at our Tucson Trader Joe’s …. It was a quiet morning with few other shoppers….And I saw that they sell imported butter.

Imported Irish Butter

Imported Irish Butter

Now long ago, in the mist of time, when I was in culinary school…. I remember discussing imported butter vs regular butter and the differences. Imported butter did not have as much water added to it, and there was something about the cows… but I forget that now….Maybe they only ate grass or they had a massage daily… there was something…..Anyway we gave this little (only ½ a pound!) Irish butter a try.

WOW are we glad we did!

We cut the butter up into 4 pieces and froze 3 and stuck one in our designated butter dish (OK plastic storage container). When we finally had some toast, I was impressed that this butter was actually soft-ish right from the refrigerator! That has not been my experience with regular butter. Also the flavor seems to be richer or more buttery (is that even a word?).

Anyway we did notice a big difference in this butter and would recommend that you try it for a time when you will actually taste the butter on something (perhaps not in a muffin recipe- but I do wonder what kind of a yummy butter sauce this stuff would make….hmmmmm)

Have you tried this butter? What did you think of it??

Trader Joe’s Bags and Contest?

Trader Joe’s has an impressive selection of re-usable grocery bags. The last time we were at Trader Joe’s they had a big new display of the bags- OR maybe it was just because we were in the rarely -used –by –us 15 Item or Less checkout and the bags are close to that lane. Whatever the reason, there sure are a lot of fun bags at our store. We stopped to look at all the varieties and choices, and wondered if maybe we needed to add to our collection or not? Hmmmmmmm

Great Bag Selection at Trader Joe's

Great Bag Selection at Trader Joe's

As it was, we had 3 re-usable Trader Joe’s bags with us- all used many times and we discovered that we liked each bag’s size and features for different reasons. One of the bags we like to use for produce and another bag is good for when we purchase the toilet paper and tissues (the bag fits these items perfectly).

For us the Trader Joe’s bags work at times outside of a trip to Trader Joe’s. We have our favorite Trader Joe’s bags for going to the library, and another (an oldie) that has a long handle and is good when we are going to the Laundromat (apartment living, dontcha know..)

I also get a chuckle when I see Trader Joe’s bags just out, on campus, in the airport etc… It makes me feel like there is a secret society of Trader Joe’s gourmets all around me.  OR maybe just bag lovers, OR maybe both?

So where is the most unusual place you have taken a Trader Joe’s bag? OR where is the most unusual place you have seen a Trader Joe’s bag??

Should we start a contest?? Maybe on Facebook?? Who is interested??

Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix

OK-YUM! Trader Joe’s has combined smooth creamy mini peanut butter cups with dried cherries, almonds and cashews! Appropriately called Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix.

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Cups Trail Mix

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Cups Trail Mix

We spotted this new trail mix on the “new items” shelf at Trader Joe’s on a recent visit. This is one of my favorite places to check out, just before we check out, just to see what is new in the store. As you know, Trader Joe’s has so many great items that even regular shoppers don’t get to know all of them. This New Items area gives us a head start, right?

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix

OK back to the Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix. YUM! Yes I said that, but I will say it again. The crunchy nuts, and the chewy dried cherries are wonderful together. AND then add the rich chocolate and peanut butter mini cups and this Trax mix is a home run!  I can see a baggie of this Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix going into a lunch in the near future…. I guess that is IF there is any left!

Now the only thing I want to mention is the potential for a melt down with this product.  Here in Tucson it is still fairly hot out (Yikes today’s high is 100) and therefore this product might not be the best kind to include in a lunch or backpack to take for a quick snack. We usually stick to the fruit-and –nut only Trax Mix until the temps are under the 70’s. Just FYI

Have you tried this yummy Trader Joe’s Peanut Butter Cups Trax Mix? What did you think??