Food Review: Trader Joe’s Organic White Cheddar & Roasted Garlic Filone
Bread comes in so many shapes and sizes: sliced, not sliced, crunchy, soft, so puffy you can squeeze a whole loaf into a ball the size of your fist, or filled with seeds. Some of my favorite store-bought bread is the kind that you bake in the oven for a few minutes before serving, and Trader Joe’s Organic White Cheddar & Roasted Garlic Filone is a great example of that.
Sure, it’s a little inconvenient to have to put it in the oven, but when it comes out and you’ve got crispy cheesy goodness on top and chunks of steaming garlic in the middle, you forget that you had to preheat the oven and sit around for five minutes. A little butter makes it even better.
Also, bonus points for being organic. Being unsliced helps as well, since it means the bread heats more evenly and you can cut your slices to your own preference of size.
Okay, this bread is awesome. It’s cheap, too. Unfortunately, it seems to sell out and thus isn’t always easy to find. The cheese could also extend to the ends of the bread. All in all, though, these are just minor quibbles that hardly mar a great product. Yum.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
You’re making me hungry. I wish there were a TJ’s on the East side.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:34 am
Two words: German bread. One slice is practically a whole meal, and that’s just the sandwich bread. A warm Brotchen is practically heaven itself, especially if you put a fresh Bratwurst mit Semf in there.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 am
For your reviewing perusal: Bert en Ernie.