No-cook dinner
Jul. 23rd, 2009 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prosodicI guess this is piggybacking off my earlier post.
I was in Grocery Outlet the other day (I love that place more and more each time I visit) and in the freezer case, they had bags of Bertolli tortellini in tomato cream sauce for $2. That's probably about half of what the regular grocery stores charge.
Anyway, I picked some up, thinking it would be good to keep in the freezer for a quick meal (and it can be made in a skillet or microwaved, so bonus!). I was having high hopes for this, and I figured if it was good, I would run to Grocery Outlet and get more to have around for next week, since I likely won't be using the oven at all.
I nuked it. Pour into a casserole dish. Cover. Cook 4 minutes. Stir. Cook 4 minutes. Let sit for 2. Apply to mouth. Couldn't be easier. Garlic bread was baking in the toaster oven in the meantime, and I had peas heating on the stove.
It was disappointing. Perfectly edible, but the sauce was really runny. And I'm not sure I liked it well enough to buy it again. I'm wondering if the sauce would thicken up if it was cooked in the skillet. Or if I added meatballs or something, would that improve it?
I was in Grocery Outlet the other day (I love that place more and more each time I visit) and in the freezer case, they had bags of Bertolli tortellini in tomato cream sauce for $2. That's probably about half of what the regular grocery stores charge.
Anyway, I picked some up, thinking it would be good to keep in the freezer for a quick meal (and it can be made in a skillet or microwaved, so bonus!). I was having high hopes for this, and I figured if it was good, I would run to Grocery Outlet and get more to have around for next week, since I likely won't be using the oven at all.
I nuked it. Pour into a casserole dish. Cover. Cook 4 minutes. Stir. Cook 4 minutes. Let sit for 2. Apply to mouth. Couldn't be easier. Garlic bread was baking in the toaster oven in the meantime, and I had peas heating on the stove.
It was disappointing. Perfectly edible, but the sauce was really runny. And I'm not sure I liked it well enough to buy it again. I'm wondering if the sauce would thicken up if it was cooked in the skillet. Or if I added meatballs or something, would that improve it?