{"id":18401,"date":"2018-09-07T18:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=18401"},"modified":"2018-09-07T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:53:13","slug":"gortons-shrimp-bowl-meal-review-with-black-garlic-and-wine-risotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=18401","title":{"rendered":"Gortons Shrimp Bowl Meal Review – With Black Garlic and Wine Risotto"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gortons<\/a>I personally think that the sudden glut of frozen heat and eat meals at the grocery is due to the success of the “meal kit” business.<\/p>\n

Those deals where they send you portion cut ingredients and a recipe and it’s supposed to be so easy to create a gourmet meal with no fuss.\u00a0 ( I tried them when they came out, read about that here<\/a>. Spendy and no less work, sez I).<\/p>\n

So all sorts of frozen food companies have come out with meals, kits, and there are fast food branded ones, and even the big grocery chains and WalMart have their own take on the concept.<\/p>\n

My experiment today is from the Gorton’s company<\/a>, (over 150 years old)\u00a0 the people you’re used to buying crispy seafood filets and fish sticks that never get crispy.\u00a0 This is a shrimp bowl, with ‘black garlic and wine” (sauce) rissotto.<\/p>\n

I know a dozen people who won’t even try risotto from scratch at home, so this is a surprise.\u00a0 In smaller print, there’s a reference to ‘parmesan cheese,’ but to me, that was the predominant flavor in the rice.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full ingredient list: (Cooked arborio rice, Shrimp (Shrimp, salt, sodium di-, tri-, and polyphosphate [to retain moisture], sodium bisulfite and sodium citrate [preservatives]), water, mushrooms (mushrooms, water, salt), olive oil, cream, Parmesan cheese (pasteurized cow\u2019s milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, black garlic and wine seasoning (maltodextrin, dehydrated garlic, vinegar solids, modified corn starch, spices, malic acid, dehydrated parsley, black garlic powder, soy lecithin, lactic acid, jalape\u00f1o pepper, white wine solids, natural flavors), onions, corn starch, garlic (garlic, water), butter, white wine (contains sulfites), sea salt, parsley, tara gum<\/em>).<\/p>\n

There were\u00a0 about 8-9 shrimp in the bowl, which are frozen solid, of course, so when you microwave (three minutes, stir, one minute) a lot of the trapped moisture in the shrimp is going to escape and they are going to shrink.\u00a0 So I added a half dozen, because I had them on hand, and I could.\u00a0 There are mushrooms, which retained their texture well. They look like slices of baby bellas.\u00a0 The box says a “hint of parmesan” but as I said above, I think it’s a pretty dominant flavor.<\/p>\n

The risotto was creamy as it should be and the shrimp remained very firm, as they should be too.<\/p>\n

Bottom line?\u00a0 I surprised myself and liked it.\u00a0 Not sure if it’s supposed to be two servings or not, it wouldn’t have been at my house.\u00a0 It was a comfortably sized serving for me.<\/p>\n

It was $5.99 and a bogo yesterday.\u00a0 There’s a coupon below you might want to try.\u00a0 Their\u00a0Entire product line<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Where you can pick some up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I personally think that the sudden glut of frozen heat and eat meals at the grocery is due to the success of the “meal kit” business. Those deals where they send you portion cut ingredients and a recipe and it’s supposed to be so easy to create a gourmet meal with no fuss.\u00a0 ( I… Continue reading Gortons Shrimp Bowl Meal Review – With Black Garlic and Wine Risotto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,16,27],"tags":[135,1507,1722,3198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}