She had been hungry and after getting my Costco prescriptions
last week went on a minirampage in the unhealthy food section.
Luckily, she also bought a pack of rather nice steaks as well.
This is the interesting ssortment that welcomed me back at the
house.

Boom Chicka Pop sweet and salty kettle corn, 19 oz, that's not much
by weight, but in popcorn terms it's a bag the size of my head and
shoulders. This remains unopened, because of the following, but
we've both had the product before, and we liked it okay (she really
liked it, I found it too salty but okay), and there's no sense
opening it up just for a confirmatory taste. I doubt her judgment
at buying 60 cups of it.

Kirkland tortilla strips, 3 lb - this was an even bigger bag, but
it cost only as much as a pound would cost in the supermarket, so
who cares if you throw out half of it? Costco encourages that kind
of bad thinking. Anyhow, we opened this one and found them tasty
but disastrously salty for me (almost too much for her even).
Luckily the humidity has been low (10-50%, during the day toward
the low end), so they'll last a long time. Bad thing is that the
power has been intermittent.

El Camino Real petite cinnamon rolls, 36 count - I was itching
to write a scathing review of these, but they actually were not
too bad - decent cinnamony flavor, too sweet, too much gooey
white frosting, a bit dry in the middle, quite a bit better than
I had hoped. Nuking in the oven improved things, but 6 seconds
was good for the frosting, and 8 seconds made the insides warmish
but the frosting too hot to touch, but not enough to release the
moisture in the center. Ten seconds, too much. The ingredients list
looked more or less okay if a little witch's-brewish. Unbleached
enriched wheat flour, water, cane and invert sugar, unsalted butter,
powder [sic] sugar, brown sugar, granulated sugar, whole eggs,
cinnamon, tapioca syrup, canola oil, dry yeast, nonfat dry milk,
salt, natural flavors, palm fruit oil, corn starch, cultured wheat,
sunflower lecithin, ascorbic acid, enzymes, calcium carbonate,
dextrose, agar, titanium dioxide (color), monoglycerides.

Nestle's Toll House Chocolate Chip Lovers cookie dough in the
giant economy 5 lb size - these are not great, and there two
different kinds of chocolate in the cookies; one tastes like
ordinary Toll House morsels, the other dusty and like the outside
of cheap candy bars and just strange. Ingredients: Enriched Wheat
Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate,
Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Nestle[r] Toll House[r] Semi-Sweet
Chocolate Morsels & Chunks (Sugar, Chocolate, Milkfat, Cocoa Butter,
Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavors), Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil, Canola
Oil), Water, Nestle[r] Toll House[r] Milk Chocolate Morsels
(Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Nonfat Milk, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin,
Natural Flavors), 2% or Less of Eggs, Molasses, Salt, Baking Soda,
Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Natural Flavor, Vanilla Extract.
The cookies baked up okay; they were almost as good as the ones I
get on the airplane, though not nearly so good as ones made from
scratch using fresh ingredients. I preferred the dough uncooked (the
package says DO NOT EAT RAW COOKIE DOUGH in an attempt to head off
potential liability at the pass), but it's still not as good as
handmade dough from fresh ingredients. Also, the two kinds of chips
stand out in stark contrast to each other in the raw state.

As Lilli didn't have salsa on hand, I made some out of Ro-Tel
chipotle, which has a substantial smoky pepper flavor and a fair bit
of heat. Using what was in the pantry, I cooked it up with some
oregano, garlic powder, and raw minced onion. It was okay but even
diluted with bunches of onion more chilpotleish than I prefer.
The oversweetness of the tomato-onion combo mitigated the saltiness
of the chips pretty well.
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Boom Chicka Pop sweet and salty kettle corn, 19 oz, that's not much

I doubt that we have ever bought popped popcorn, nor kettle corn (except perhaps for cracker jacks in our younger days). We tend to pop our own
at home from microwave bags such as Orville.

Kirkland tortilla strips, 3 lb - this was an even bigger bag, but
it cost only as much as a pound would cost in the supermarket, so
who cares if you throw out half of it? Costco encourages that kind
of bad thinking. Anyhow, we opened this one and found them tasty

Why is that bad thinking on your part? You get 1 1/2 pounds for the
price of one pound if that is what you do. We don't buy that sort of
snack foods (potato chips, tostedos, cheetos) in the supermarket for
that reason. Big bag at BJs cost about the same as small bag at
Safeway.

El Camino Real petite cinnamon rolls, 36 count - I was itching
to write a scathing review of these, but they actually were not
too bad - decent cinnamony flavor, too sweet, too much gooey
white frosting, a bit dry in the middle, quite a bit better than
I had hoped. Nuking in the oven improved things, but 6 seconds

At least they were not raw dough in the middle like some Cinnabon's that
we once bought in the Columbia Mall. I like an occasional Cinnabon --
usually only in an airport while waiting for a plane.

Nestle's Toll House Chocolate Chip Lovers cookie dough in the
giant economy 5 lb size - these are not great, and there two

Another thing not on our radar. Gail makes excellent Toll House cookies
as part of her Christmas tin offerings.


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Title: Convection Toll House Cookies
Categories: Tested, Cookies, Xmas 2009
Yield: 4 Dozen

2 1/4 c All purpose flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Salt
1 c Butter, softened
1 1/4 c Sugar
3/4 c Brown sugar
1 ts Vanilla
2 lg Eggs
2 c Chocolate chips (12 oz)
1 c Chopped nuts optional;

Use large scoop

Set convection oven to 375 (will show 350)

Bake 10 - 14 minutes, remove and let cool on pan. Loosen cookies after
resting for about 5 minutes.

++ Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ++

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