Taste Test: Trader Joe's Mini Croissants
Review by Meredith Brody
I love Trader Joe’s. It’s my first stop on the food train (second is a number of farmer’s markets, third is Safeway, fourth is catch-as-catch-can among Whole Foods, Andronico’s, Raley’s, whatever else is out there – if there was a Raley’s convenient to me, it would slip into third place, bumping 24-hour Safeway). I can judge my personal emotional temperature by the contents of my cart: how many fatty, sweet, luxuriously unnecessary items have found their way there, next to the essentials (fat-free milk, Greek yogurt, plugras butter, French roast coffee, Fresh Cherries jam, Tongol tuna). (If Trader Joe’s peanut butter cups are there, I need serious soothing.)
I love to try something I’ve never had before, easy to do at TJ. The last chance I took, Trader Joe’s 8 Mini Croissants, lay fallow in my freezer for some time before a combination of a weekend houseguest and two guys who were going to finish up a fence in the backyard in the AM reminded me to plop the little crescents on a baking tray at night and let them proof (rise) until the following morning.
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Sometimes we get free food in the mail here at the Weekly's World Headquarters. This is one of those times. (Thank you, food people for keeping the starving writer in mind.) Anyway, the guys at Bay Area-based Diamond Foods sent along a plastic cannister filled to the brim with Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds (a relatively new item that hit stores just this month) and wanted to know what we thought. 
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