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Review: Annie's Cheese Ravioli
Mar. 5th, 2010 09:44 pmIt's organic! It has actual fiber! There's no corn syrup and no hydrogenated vegetable oil! It's vegetarian, so there's no animal cruelty!
Too bad it tastes so bad. The ingredient list explained that the cheese filling was made with cheddar cheese, which seems all wrong for ravioli. I thought that might be a bad sign, but decided to give it a try anyway. In fact, the cheese wasn't the problem. Actually it was quite bland. The pasta also was fine. The sauce, however, was so sickly sweet that it tasted like dessert. Seriously. Who knew you could make a dessert topping with tomatoes? There was no savoriness to this product at all. It made for a very unsatisfying lunch.
The sad thing is that I actually like other canned ravioli products even though they are also too sweet. The sweetness of those products amounted to just a few grains here and there compared to the syrupy waterfall in what I ate today.
On the other hand, it does give me an idea for a dessert ravioli. Take ravioli just like this--ordinary pasta with a mild cheese, maybe ricotta or even marscarpone or cream cheese. And then pour some raspberry sauce over it. (Make the raspberry sauce by putting raspberries in the blender, perhaps with a little orange juice, until smooth. Do not add any plain sugar. Heat. Think of the sort of sauce you put over crepes.) Then just a drizzle of dark chocolate sauce. Now that would be good. But maybe not for lunch.
Niece news of the day - Yesterday I officially declared my niece "smarter than a chicken." See, I've read that when chickens see some delicious chicken food on the other side of a chain-link fence, they head straight for the food, bonk their heads on the fence, get a little disoriented and confused for a minute, spot the food again, head for the food again, bonk their little chicken heads again, etc., indefinitely, even if the fence ends a few feet away and they could just walk around the fence.
My niece likes to walk the edges of room hanging on to things. In the past, her feet would just follow her hands, even if there was something in the way of her legs. She would just push and push, until she either forced her way through or started crying in frustration. Yesterday, she was walking along the couch and encountered a leg sticking out (not mine). At first she tried to just push through it, but then she got a twinkle in her eye and walked around the leg until she got back to the couch.
I'm just now realizing that since the outstretched leg was at her waist level so she could hang on to it as she walked around it, the situation isn't really the same as the other situations I've seen her in. Still, since she first started pushing and then changed her strategy, I'm going to declare her at least well on the way to being smarter than a chicken.
Too bad it tastes so bad. The ingredient list explained that the cheese filling was made with cheddar cheese, which seems all wrong for ravioli. I thought that might be a bad sign, but decided to give it a try anyway. In fact, the cheese wasn't the problem. Actually it was quite bland. The pasta also was fine. The sauce, however, was so sickly sweet that it tasted like dessert. Seriously. Who knew you could make a dessert topping with tomatoes? There was no savoriness to this product at all. It made for a very unsatisfying lunch.
The sad thing is that I actually like other canned ravioli products even though they are also too sweet. The sweetness of those products amounted to just a few grains here and there compared to the syrupy waterfall in what I ate today.
On the other hand, it does give me an idea for a dessert ravioli. Take ravioli just like this--ordinary pasta with a mild cheese, maybe ricotta or even marscarpone or cream cheese. And then pour some raspberry sauce over it. (Make the raspberry sauce by putting raspberries in the blender, perhaps with a little orange juice, until smooth. Do not add any plain sugar. Heat. Think of the sort of sauce you put over crepes.) Then just a drizzle of dark chocolate sauce. Now that would be good. But maybe not for lunch.
Niece news of the day - Yesterday I officially declared my niece "smarter than a chicken." See, I've read that when chickens see some delicious chicken food on the other side of a chain-link fence, they head straight for the food, bonk their heads on the fence, get a little disoriented and confused for a minute, spot the food again, head for the food again, bonk their little chicken heads again, etc., indefinitely, even if the fence ends a few feet away and they could just walk around the fence.
My niece likes to walk the edges of room hanging on to things. In the past, her feet would just follow her hands, even if there was something in the way of her legs. She would just push and push, until she either forced her way through or started crying in frustration. Yesterday, she was walking along the couch and encountered a leg sticking out (not mine). At first she tried to just push through it, but then she got a twinkle in her eye and walked around the leg until she got back to the couch.
I'm just now realizing that since the outstretched leg was at her waist level so she could hang on to it as she walked around it, the situation isn't really the same as the other situations I've seen her in. Still, since she first started pushing and then changed her strategy, I'm going to declare her at least well on the way to being smarter than a chicken.