(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
(Beef Steak in Whiskey BBQ Sauce, Roasted Potatoes & Vegetables)
(and no red pepper chunks!)
O happy day! NONE of the frozen diet meals were on sale this week so bet your bottom dollar I picked something other than Lean Cuisine. Anyway, this week I give you…
Cafe Steamers Week!
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.
Eight large chunks of beef are swimming in the BBQ sauce which actually contains whiskey! (hic!) It’s a very tasty sauce albeit a bit on the watery side. I wonder if it has to be watery for the “steam technology” to work. The potato wedges are so large they look like apple slices. The corn, green beans and tomatoes were recognizable and didn’t disintegrate into a pile of mush.
The dish is filling enough on its own (although I paired it with a side of peas) but I am VERY thirsty afterward. I wonder if the 580g of sodium would cause that…nah, it’s just the whiskey. (hic!)
I prefer the BBQ sauce from the Lean Cuisine Southern Beef Tips but I like this meal’s roasted potatoes better.
4g fat, 260 cal, 5 POINTS
May 27th, 2008