The meal does pretty closely resemble the image on the box. Of course you wouldn't know that b/c I took this picture after scraping the tray clean! hehe!
Sorry folks for the long lapse in BOB entries. It’s been a busy few weeks marked by extremely forgettable boxed meals. Today, however was different. It was the first time I’d tried a Moosewood meal. I’m a huge fan of Moosewood – and have been for years.Plus, Moosewood’s Moosewood Cooks at Home is the only cookbook I really use. Their vegetable soup and handbaked bread are family favorites. The first time I met my (now) brother-in-law he secured our relationship by giving me a Moosewood t-shirt (he was currently living in Ithaca, lucky guy). The t-shirt is still in my rotation of top t-shirts now, more than 10 years later!! So you can tell, I was extremely biased going in to today’s boxed delight: Vegetarian Farfelle & Spinach Pesto Sauce.
The box says to microwave for four minutes than let cool for 1-2. I trust those folks, so I even let the baby cool down. However, it wasn’t enough time in our microwave, so I had to nuke it for an extra minute for all the pasta to be hot.
The pasta was firm (which is tough to do with frozen pasta) there were nice chunks of portabello mushroom and plenty of pesto sauce to go around. but … and here’s the clincher … there really wasn’t enough flavor. I’m not typically the kind of person to add salt to my food, but this meal was screamin for it. Perhaps my expectations were too high (and I’ll admit they were) but it didn’t have nearly the kick you want in a great pesto sauce.
Plus, like most boxed meals, it didn’t come close to filling me up, so I’ll have to find some snacks later to supplement my disappointed boxed meal from Moosewood.
Don’t get me wrong, now that I know that Moosewood does these, I’m going to keep trying them until I find one that I like. You’ll hear about it, don’t worry!
