Monday 4th of February’s Lunch – Spaghetti Marinara

The next day at work, I tried the Spaghetti Marinara.  As I’ve said, I’m always wary about seafood but this dish comes through to my liking.  Let’s take a look…

Spaghetti Marinara

You can see the sample image there appears to be heaps of seafood pieces; lots of prawns, lots of whatever.  It’s all there, right?

Spaghetti Marinara after cooking.

You can see it looks more like a spaghetti bolognaise than anything.  I did put this in for a minute more for a total of 8 minutes but it requires only 7 minutes in a decent microwave.

I’m of tow minds on this meal.  On the one hand, there’s plenty of tomato sauce which is rich and generous.  There’s lots of spaghetti pasta.  But on the other, there’s only a few prawns (which would appear to be the frozen ones) and even fewer fish pieces and one or two squid rings.  The squid rings were pretty tender for a frozen meal.  It just needed more.

Overall, definitely one to put back on the list so I give this one 3.5 out of 5 thumbs.

 

Friday’s Dinner – Crumbed Fish

With the Australia Day long weekend, I haven’t had much of chance to post.  So here I am to catch up on a few of the dishes I’ve had over the weekend.

Friday night it was crumbed fish.

Lite ‘n’ Easy’s Crumbed Fish

This meal called for 7 minutes in the microwave and it came out pretty much spot-on.

Lite ‘n’ Easy’s Crumbed Fish after cooking.

I’ve got to admit, this doesn’t look that appetising – there’s a bunch of beans and some corn pieces and a a generous amount of potato wedges.  As I feared, they had no crunch so I would like to try this in a conventional oven at some stage.  The fish didn’t fare much better.  It was sitting on some beans and corn which made the crumbs on the underside side soggy.  The top side wasn’t much better.  However, I do like the crumb flavour – it has a buttery flavour to it but the texture doesn’t do too well coming out of the microwave.

This piece of fish itself was almost undetectable.  The fish flesh had not flavour and the crumbing felt a little too much for the size of fish there.  I would definitely like a thicker piece of fish.  Some of the fish had dried during cooking process making its texture like cardboard.  I reckon a little bit of tartare sauce would’ve spiced the dish up considerably.

I don’t see myself ordering this one again unless I was to try using the conventional oven.  It reminded me of a fish ‘n’ chips dinner I had on a CountryLink train to Canberra one Friday night but I reckon that was better than this offering.  As I’ve said earlier, I like my seafood but I’m really picky when it comes to how it’s been cooked.

2.5 out 5 thumbs.  Give it a go but maybe try a regular oven.