Romano's Macaroni Grill Chicken Marsala and Linguine
This isn’t really a snack food, but sometimes my family needs to eat meals, too.
When I saw Romano’s Macaroni Grill Chicken Marsala and Linguine boxed dinner at my local Piggly Wiggly, I knew I had to get it, because it claimed to contain everything I needed (save chicken) including the marsala wine!
Do you like my kitchen? I really like the pink counters and brick pattern linoleum. I also like how something about the lighting makes all my pictures look like they are straight out of 1957!
Instructions
Seriously, do not drain the water? Gah, did my mom write these instructions? NO MUSHY PASTA EVER!
Ingredients
Okay, is it just me or is that about as much pasta as I’d normally make for myself, for a light snack? Dang, I eat too much!
Marsala in a pouch!
Sure enough, it does have the marsala!
Not only that but all sorts of dried wine, too! No wonder it kind of smells like what the un-PC among us call a “wino”.
Heh, not really related but you know how some Asian people lack an enzyme to properly process alcohol? I was thinking of developing an enzyme supplement to solve that pesky problem – kind of like Beano does for beans. I was going to call it Wine-O. I would have made a fortune, if only I knew how to isolate enzymes and put them in tablet form.
Above My Fridge
I’m not sure why I took my picture, but this is what the Museum of Snack Foods is looking like these days. I’m still getting settled in, that’s why my cereal bowls are so crooked. Hey, maybe that’s why I eat too much, all my bowls are giant sized!
Marsala
So, of course I tasted the Marsala. It was pretty foul, but at least it was pretty weak. It tasted kind of like very salted watered down MadDog 20/20. Eh, I’ve had worse, once I drank almost a quarter of a 40 of Kool Colt 45 – yup, for a brief period in the early 1990s, they sold mentholated malt liquor. No lie.
Top of Box
Notice something? Right, despite this being a General Mills product, there is no Box Top for Education on top. I guess they know anyone who would buy this and serve it probably doesn’t love the children. They probably don’t even love themselves.
This is what it looked like cooking. To be honest, since I had to cut up the chicken and junk, it would have been just as easy to make from scratch.
By the way, sorry I didn’t take any pictures of the water in the measuring cups and such. I’m still an amateur at this blogging about cooking thing.
Here it is, on the plate. I have to say, it wasn’t as bad as expected. It tasted vaguely like Campbell’s chunky chicken noodle soup. I’ve found that I can stomach convenience foods that taste like convenience foods I had as a child. So, anything that tastes like Campbell’s Chunky Soups or Spam, I can taste that it doesn’t rightly taste good, but I can eat it. But say something we never had like Sweet Sue Chicken and Dumplings? Oh vomit. Blech. I can’t believe people eat that trash.
By the way, here’s a handy hint – when you are throwing away your boxes of crap food, hide them inside healthy organic food boxes. That way the guys that dig through your recycling looking for cans to exchange for MadDog money think you are a good mother.
Of course, we needed dessert after a fancy meal that had wine in it, so I popped open a can of Ambrosia
It is rice pudding! In a can! From the U.K.! That’s a jolly lot of sticky widgets, wot?
I don’t actually like Ambrosia, even the fresh kind in the refrigerated section, but I have to have it in the house because of this commercial:
Ooh aah it’s Am-bro-see-ah!!!!
Uh, it kind of tastes like you’d think. Bland. Mushy. Lumpy. White. Sorry U.K. I will stick with Jell-O brand shelf stable tapioca pudding for my bland, mushy, lumpy white food needs.
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I love Chicken Marsala. Or I did, anyway. That looks pretty definitely Not Good.
I like your bowls, though.
I’m ashamed to admit I purchased and prepared that very same Chicken Marsala. I really like the Chicken Marsala at Macaroni Grill, this was nothing like it. I’ve made pretty decent Marsala at home and it wasn’t any more difficult than the package. It must be a convenience food for those who can’t find mushrooms, garlic and Marsala wine at their grocery store. I have no words for the Ambrosia, it’s all coming out in a slightly gaggy sound.
That’s it. I’m calling cyps.
Don’t you know that you should have used canned chicken, then you would not have had to cut up chicken.
Amateur
Thank you for keeping me on my diet. I have exactly zero desire to eat.
Nice Pickle Pop product placement there, are you getting kick backs already ? Tell Dave I said ‘Hi’ !
I have to say, that does not look too bad, but even with your handy instructions, it’s too much work for me.
Ooh! You’ve got Spotted Dick on your shelf!
Can I just say that Ambrosia’s custard is far better than their rice pudding. Ask me how I know. Go ahead, ask me.
Oh if only I had some Ambrosia custard to spoon over my Spotted Dick!
Maybe I’ll do the spotted dick for my next entry. I am still waffling over spending the money on a skin for to cook the haggis in. I mean, I could try the haggis without it, but what would be the point?
Oh! Oh! Do I spy the bigtime bargain Le Creuset.. Crueset… Cruesette… high dollar stuff there on that shelf? The pretty blue thing? I covet it.
I had to scroll really fast past that last picture. I’m thinking chicken marsupials is not the dish for me.
It is, Betty Lou! I love it but it’s too big for every day, so I use it for decoration, too. Don’t you just love my pink kitchen?
HAHA!! I love your instructions! I stumbled here in my search for nutritional facts on this boxed pasta dinner. Needless to say I don’t think I’ll be trying it anytime soon(chicken noodle soup bores me). I will check back on other reviews/instructions posted by you though! Quite amusing!
Nice. You get more and more funny each and every time I read you!
I love Ambrosia ate it all the time as a kid yum yum in my tum
I warm it up and put some sugar in it though because eating it cold like that is horrible.
love from the uk