Dine Wherever

$3.49 per 8 oz Container After a few trials of some not so good items from several restaurants, I've been staying home and giving the ready-made salads at the grocery stores a try.  Tonight, I had the Southwest Salad from Trader Joe's for dinner.  I found this salad quite filling and it could be good for my plan of detoxing myself since this salad was 100% veggies.  But did I enjoy it?  Not really.  I found the mix of veggies too much on the bitter side because of the shredded red cabbages and red onions.  I love red onions but when there were already the shredded red cabbages, there was just too much bitterness in the veggies.  The corn, diced red and green peppers would have helped if only there were more of them. The black beans however complimented the corn very well. The Mexican cotija cheese also added a nice touch.  I don't like red cabbage in my salad but I ate it because of its health benefits.  I think this salad would have b...

$7.99 I have no plan for Thanksgiving this year.  I'm officially a Thanksgiving orphan with a pretty good apple tart, waiting for some homes to spare me a seat at their Thanksgiving table.  I love this French apple tart because I'm not a fan of dough, so I just prefer the open-face fruit pie with more fruit and less dough.  There is no need for me to go into the details to describe what this tart is made of since Trader Joe's already has a very exotic write-up about this tart and you can just click here to read it  yourself.  All I have to say is,  this tart tasted as good as Trader Joe's said, and I'm also flattered that I got to enjoy a French apple tart that was once served to the President of France (according to Trader Joe's product description, the chef who developed the recipe for this tart had once made the exact same tart for the President of France).