5 Easy Recipes for Cinco de Mayo

So,  what are you going to make for Cinco de Mayo this year?? Well, Trader Joe’s naturally has a lot of items for you to choose from. Do you want to buy stuff already made? OR are you planning to make everything from scratch?  The readymade selection at Trader Joe’s includes chips, salsas, taquitos, burritos, [...]

Sonorian Caviar

This recipe is #1 in a series of easy recipes for Cinco de Mayo. This is one of our favorite dip recipes that we have been making for many years. It is a fun mixture of beans, tomatoes, green chilies, green onions and corn. This is a very flexible and forgiving recipe that will still [...]

Durango Dip

This recipe is #2 in a series of easy recipes for Cinco de Mayo This is a creamy easy dip that goes great with chips or is good served on tacos, enchiladas or burritos.  We first tried this dip at a friend’s super bowl party. We were just thrilled to find out how easy it [...]

Easy Tortilla Soup

This recipe is #3 in a series of easy recipes for Cinco de Mayo. This version of easy tortilla soup is the kind that we have been making for years. It is broth based (use chicken broth or vegetable broth) and then an assortment of “additions” go into the broth to form the basis for [...]

Tortilla Soup, Mexico City Style

This recipe is #4 in a series of easy recipes for Cinco de Mayo. As you read in a previous post, we just love Tortilla soup so on our recent trip to Mexico City we had to order some, right? (I mean WOW we were in Mexico City after all!) Well, we were surprised at [...]

Calabacitas Trader Joe’s Style

This recipe is #5 in a series of easy recipes for Cinco de Mayo. This is a tasty and easy to make squash side dish. Calabaza means squash in Spanish, and calabacita means little squash or little one (at least I think…). And this dish is simply loaded with little squashes.  While this makes a [...]

How to make Potato Leek Soup

Here is a quick recipe to make a Creamy Potato Leek Soup. It is one of our favorites. We were inspired to make this soup for two reasons:  1. A cool spring day in Tucson, and 2. We found the leeks at Trader Joe’s when we were shopping today. YEAH!  Today really was a great [...]

Trader Joe’s Trimmed Leeks

You know how there is just SO many items at Trader Joe’s? And even thought you shop at the store all the time (and maybe at the exact same locations) you STILL see new stuff? Here is our latest find: Trader Joe’s Trimmed Leeks We love the taste of leeks- if you don’t know about [...]

Trader Joe’s Pecan & Hazelnut Crusted Salmon

Like salmon? Well, we sure do and we found a new product at Trader Joe’s that is just wonderful: Trader Joe’s Farm Raised Pecan & Hazelnut Crusted Norwegian Salmon (now that’s a mouthful!) Now, you might be wondering how this tasty little number has escaped out notice for so long? We are wondering that ourselves. [...]

Easy way to cook with onions

We love to cook with onions and garlic. In fact, a few onions and a clove or two of garlic are the basis for most of our meals and most of the vegetables that we serve up.  As I am writing here,   I am realizing that we eat onions and garlic on (almost) a [...]

Easy way to cook with fresh garlic

This post goes hand-in hand with a previous post on Easy way to cook with onions. We love fresh garlic in our food. But it is another thing to chop it up with a knife every time you want to eat. Ugh…. We always had some big chunks that would be overwhelming when you bit [...]

Trader Joe’s Easy Soup Recipe

Here is an easy soup recipe that we made last night. We like to have the basic ingredients on hand for those nights when you wish  to  make a quick soup. Like those  days when the weather gets suddenly cool and you think “gee I wish we could have soup tonight”  without a lot of [...]

5 Easy Ways to Cook with Pesto

What exactly  is pesto you ask?? Pesto is a thick sauce made from fresh basil leaves, garlic, olive oil, parmesan cheese and pine nuts. All these ingredients are blended together until a smooth paste is formed. There are many ways that you can use pesto to add a wonderful flavor to your meals. Trader Joe’s [...]

Easy Tasty Garlic Bread

Do you love garlic bread?  We do too! We used to only eat garlic bread when we were enjoying a bowl of pasta or some other Italian –inspired dish.  As there are only two of us, it was hard at times to justify purchasing this huge loaf of bread as we would never finish it [...]

Easy Recipe Vegetable Frittata for 2

This is an easy recipe for a vegetable frittata that would be great for a brunch, lunch or dinner. This frittata goes together quickly and if you plan for it, you can even use up any leftover vegetables you might have from last night’s dinner.  This recipe is great for beginning cooks as it tastes [...]

Easy Recipe Bean Dip

Here is a simple recipe that you can quickly make when you need to bring an item to some kind of gathering. OR, we will admit, this is a great item to snack on while you are watching a game or a movie some night… We were planning to bring some food to a meeting [...]

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