Fontaine Santé Roasted Onion Hummus

Hummus is made with chickpeas, and can be used as a spread on bread, to add flavour to sandwiches, or as a dip. This offering from the Quebec-based company Fontaine Santé is one of several new products. The other one we sampled in the story was a spicy version, also as tasty as this one. I like the flavour of the roasted onion, it combines well with the chickpea, and I have tried this combination before in other hummuses.

Overall, very good, but probably expensive ($3), when you can make something just as good yourself.

President's Choice Dulce de Leche

Every year at this time, before Christmas, President's Choice comes out with a number of new and interesting food products. This year is no different, and the first of the bunch that I saw, that I was interested in anyways, was this caramel creme spread. Dulce de Leche is a milk-based syrup popular in Latin American (President's Choice sourced this dulce de leche from Argentina), one prepares it by slowly heats sweetened condensed milk (often still in the can) to produce something very similar in flavour to what North Americans call caramel. You can use it as a spread on bread or toast or waffles, as a crepe filling, or as a filling or sauce for various cakes and other desserts. The ingredient listing of this version is whole milk, sugar, corn syrup, sodium bicarbonate, potassium sorbate and artificial flavour.