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<\/picture><\/span><\/div>\nproperty of Trader Joe’s Company<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Milk Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Hearts<\/p>\n Valentine\u2019s Day is more of a pizza holiday to me, but to each their own. These are Dove chocolate\u2013sized strawberry marshmallows, coated in milk chocolate, and the overall effect is as romantic as being caught on the Kiss Cam with your mistress.<\/p>\n property of Trader Joe’s Company<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Dark Chocolate Sticks With Crispy Rice<\/p>\n Like skinny cigs, these are literal sticks of bitter dark chocolate with rice crispies. Smoke \u2019em if you got \u2018em: if these are around, I\u2019ll eat them. When they\u2019re gone, I won\u2019t miss them.<\/p>\n property of Trader Joe’s Company<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n 2 Affogatos Vanilla Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts<\/p>\n For the record, Trader Joe\u2019s non-dairy ice cream is fantastic. It has an eggy custard flavor and it gets soft faster than full-dairy stuff. This is a goofy, overly-packaged box of two single-serve affogatos that look like baby pints of ice cream. Inside, there\u2019s a hole into which you sprinkle a sleeve of crappy instant coffee, then activate with hot water, and voila, affogato-a-go-go. If you\u2019re not familiar with the Italian delicacy of affogato\u2014espresso over ice cream\u2014it\u2019s basically the thinking woman\u2019s root beer float. And I hate thinking!<\/p>\n The Pantry Stock<\/p>\n property of Trader Joe’s Company<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Organic Peeled Ginger<\/p>\n The convenience food we deserve. Every recipe I want to make (this cod curry, these Thai chicken thighs) calls for peeling and grating fresh ginger. And while sometimes I\u2019m in the mood to scrape the knobby, wrinkly knuckles of a witch\u2019s finger, most of the time I am not. (Editor\u2019s note: The spoon trick doesn\u2019t work as well as people say it does! Just want to say that!<\/em>) These are clusters of four to five fresh, naked ginger pieces, so they don\u2019t get dried out, and are usually exactly how much a recipe calls for, between 1 and 2 tablespoons. They grate like a dream. Find them near the herbs and stock up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/assets.bonappetit.com\/photos\/6984d81fd572184d49b92ebf\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/Dark%2520Chocolate%2520Sticks.jpg\"\/)
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