Somebody please put Mu shu pork in the freezer section. With pancakes wrapped separately of course.
And sweet and sour pork. They have seasoning packets, but you need to add a dozen small amounts of fruits, meats, and vegetables. Why can’t it be canned like chop suey?
Wiener schnitzel and sauerbraten with dumplings should be in the frozen dinner aisle.
Also a lasagna with restaurant amounts of meat instead of “meat-flavored sauce”
And frozen cakes with butter cream frosting instead of soggy whipped cream.
“Burger dogs” This is an Oscar Meyer product, but I’m not sure of the exact name.
It’s only sold frozen in bulk to big hot dog vendors, like stadiums, fairs, cineplexes, etc.
They are hamburger patties shaped like a polish sausage, and are pre-cooked and heated on those hot dog roller machines, eaten in a large bun. Mmmm good.
You got that right. It’s hard enough to find the stuff to make that from scratch around here, but I’d be loving it if they had something ala Dinty Moore or LaChoy.
If there was any way to make it work sushi. And not the generic crab stick and a packet of soy sauce crap you see in the meat section, I mean major variety 20-30 different items at the service deli doing takeout sushi to eat for dinner that night.
Yea, I’ll second that. Publix Grocery, right? It’s very good and quite a large amount for $5-$7. All kinds of variety, from tuna, to salmon, to eel and the usual california roll. They even had some kind of calamari salad- spicy rolls, vegetarian rolls, you name it. The sushi girl is very pretty, as well.
The freshness is still a bit of a concern, I was a bit shocked to see “sell-by 12-06” labels on the sushi boxes when I was there on 12-03 and the sushi chef had gone home. That seems a bit too long of a shelf life for open case refrigerated, premade sushi, with raw fish and in some cases spicy mayo drizzled on.
I give you Michael Angelo’s Frozen Gourmet Italian foods. I haven’t tried their Lasagna, but they make the best frozen Eggplant Parmigiana. Almost as good as homemade, maybe better than homemade in some cases. Really good products.
Ok. Wander down to your local Indian store. Take a look at the packets. You boil the packets in water for 3-5 minutes and serve and eat.
Doesn’t sound good…but some of them are really good. I’m afraid it’s all a matter of trial and error, however. So far the only one I couldn’t stand was the sag-paneer, but some of the others were really good. Mine comes in a triangle shaped box.
My roommate turned me on to the fact that the Hy-Vee down the street has good “hot and ready” stuff. They even have a dining area - and it wasn’t empty when I was in there last. She got some chinese food, I got fried chicken, mashed and gravy, mac n cheese and a roll. Mmmmm. Pretty good stuff. It was Sunday night and I had been eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches for days because I didn’t hit the store before the snow storm. I can’t cook for crap and I get sick of eating sandwiches and frozen pizza. I always want “meals” like that ready to go. I miss mom’s cooking too much I guess!
I’m waiting for frozen lettuce.
I wish I could find a frozen or canned dal that I like. I’ve tried a number of the MREs, and they all taste like… asfoetida? Or something? Anyway, not like restaurant food. Not tinny, but I don’t like them very much.
Michael Angelo’s are excellent, quality, frozen foods and can give a good Italian restaurant a run for their money. But there remains, always, the ineffability of real and homemade freshness and TLC in any culinary endeavor. No process will ever match that. They just hit closer to the mark than Stoufferian convention.
I would rather have eaten at your house.
(Personally, I’ve always thought the whole salting and pressing of eggplant was an extraneous and unnecessary process. You can cut a good amount of time out and make an equal, if not better, dish. I even go so far as recommending a deep fryer for your Eggplant parmagiana. The unsalted eggplant has a better texture in a slightly “over temp” deepfryer. It’s paradoxically tender and crispy because of the extra water and steam. It isn’t overseasoned, either… save the salt for your marinara.
You make it sound as if I’m some caveman in Geico commercial. I haven’t found a place here in Dallas to get good Indian food for as little as $10 in as little time as 15 minutes.
There is one of the produce stores down the street from me that has some heat and eat Indian food, like mutter paneer and such, but those aren’t what I’m after. I want Anglicized Indian stuff, like the Brits eat.