Posts filed under 'chicken'
(grilled white meat chicken, sun dried tomatoes, red peppers & a creamy pesto sauce in a soft flatbread)
Directions: fold up box, put flatbread on top of it, cook for 2:45. LET SIT FOR A MINUTE, then fold. It will be hot hot hot!
And kinda meh. Not much spillage, and the filling wasn’t bad. It was just a bit doughy for my tastes.
It was eaten at work, and didn’t fill me up on its own. So I supplemented with apple slices and a garden salad.
8g fat (holy cow!), 330cal, 6 POINTS)
May 30th, 2008
(Dried White Chicken, Three Cheeses, Diced Tomatoes, Spinach and Roasted Onions With Creamy Basil Sauce, On Italian Bread)
Cook time is approximately 2 minutes and 45 seconds, although I had to have my work microwave cook it for 3 minutes and 30 seconds to heat it up fully. Also, to get it cripsy, you have to fold the box into a raised platform and cook the panini on the foil-esque tray it came wrapped upon. Let it cool after microwaving for a minute, then fold the 2 halves together to make a sandwich. Watch out…it’s hot.
I hadn’t had a good panini since I moved away from my local Genuardi’s. I used to get their Chicken Panini. So today when I didn’t have time to go home for lunch, I went to Wegmans and grabbed this frozen meal, a side of presliced apples and a bottle of “Honest Tea” Green Tea. (I’ll be honest, first choice was Taco Bell. Then Quiznos. Then Subway. Then I finally sucked it up and got the healthy lunch.)
And it was great. While I wouldn’t say that it grills in the microwave (it was pre-grilled and you’re just heating it up) the bread was crispy and the contents stayed in the sandwich while I ate it. I was skeptical at first, because it seems so much teenier than a sandwich that I would regularly make for myself. (Portion control, my downfall.) But wouldn’t you know that with my apples and tea, I’m properly filled up!
5g fat, 310 cal, 6 POINTS
May 29th, 2008
(Chicken Breast, Pasta & Broccoli Florets in Marinara Sauce)
Directions: DO NOT PUNCTURE PLASTIC. Microwave on high for 3 min, 15 sec to 4 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes. Remove steamer basket from outer sauce bowl. Stir steamed food into sauce bowl. Dispose of Steamer basket and serve in sauce bowl.
Kim’s warning: The steamer basket is VERY HOT when you pour its contents into the sauce.
Cafe Steamers Week continues!
Four pieces of chicken are steamed to perfection in this dish. And I’m not kidding. They’re hot and tender. I do see thin strings of mozzarella cheese too. Chicken, pasta, cheese and NO red pepper chunks? This is promising.
The gravy (I call spaghetti sauce gravy, shut up) is passably good jar-tasting stuff. I think it picked up a lot of the garlic and black pepper seasoning from the chicken chunks.
I think this is the best frozen dish pasta I’ve had yet. It must be the steaming system, which keeps the pasta (in this case, penne) from sitting in sauce and getting too mushy. The broccoli florets even have a crunch to them!
And it’s filling! Why can’t I make a 250 cal meal with this much stuff in it and it be filling?
I could eat this one again and again. Love, love, love it.
4g fat, 250 cal, 5 POINTS
May 28th, 2008
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