Sunday, February 27, 2011

Knorr Frozen Entrées...

In this day and age, we as humans get busier and busier. With work, school, family, sports, and other hobbies or all the above, it's hard to get in a decent dinner. I for one will take the easy route and go to McDonald's and grab myself a Big Mac meal. Easy peezy don't have to bother cooking something to eat. Yes, I know I can't eat McDonald's everyday or I'll end up like that dude in the movie Super Size Me. I like my liver the way it is thank you very much, no need for it to become pâté.

While shopping at Safeway I stumbled across these Knorr frozen entrées. There's about 8 different varieties. It helps that it's on sale too. ^_~ I'm a sucker for sales. It was on sale for $9.45, wow what was the original price then? Even though it's on sale that's still a bit pricey for my taste but I digress. I thought to myself, Knorr makes great soup stocks why not try their frozen entrées? I grab the Grilled Chicken Florentine and Farfalle because all the other flavors are gone. With that in mind, they must be good!

As soon as I get home and put away all my groceries, I pull out my pot and got ready to prepare the entrée. Looking at the directions it's pretty easy and straight forward. Wow even my boyfriend can't mess this up! ^_^ You don't need to add anything, just need to heat up and in 10 minutes you got dinner. You got to pay attention though because I left to go grab something and almost burnt the pot! *nervous laugher* Anyways looking at the packaging it says it contains 2 servings. To be honest it looks like it can be 1 serving. But hey maybe it's portion control? Yeah? Yeah? No. I guess it's meant to eat with other sides, maybe a salad? Garlic bread?


I go in for the kill and hey I got to admit it's pretty darn good! It eased my hunger but I was not full, well I was full but not to the point where I got to unzip my pants so my stomach can breathe. I probably had room for more. I'm a small person at 5'2, 110lbs and if I feel that way I wonder how a 6'5, 230lbs person would feel eating that? They'll need to eat the whole bag and that might not even be enough! If you were expecting to have leftovers so you can bring it for lunch then start cooking something else because you won't have enough.

I probably will buy a couple and keep them in the freezer for those busier days but at that price tag I won't be buying it often.

Strawberry Rating:
Service: N/A
Food: 3.5 strawberries out of 5
Price: 2 strawberries out of 5
Cleanliness: N/A
Overall rating: Can't really do an average rating as 2 out of the 4 didn't apply. But I'll give it 3 strawberries out of 5. ^_^


"When baking, follow directions.  When cooking, go by your own taste." ~Laiko Bahrs


UPDATE: Apparently Knorr Frozen Entrees are no longer sold in Canada, well in Edmonton anyways. Boo-urns!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Lee House...

I am a big fan of Korean food and to know more and more Korean restaurants are opening up here in Edmonton is great! My friend introduced me to this restaurant, if it wasn't for her, I don't think I would ever find this place.

It's this tiny little restaurant off of Whyte Avenue called Lee House. Walking through the door you're greeted with the aroma of Korean food in the air and it just makes your mouth water. Looking around, you can see that it is a very small restaurant probably about 8-10 tables. If you wanted to book for a big birthday party or whatnot be prepared to book the whole restaurant. That's how small it is. We're greeted by a nice Korean server, who in a way sort of looks like one of my aunts, same hair, similar facial features...hmm...creepy.

 The server takes our drink orders right away (which is a plus) and scurries off to get our drinks. As I'm waiting for my drink, I take a browse through their menu. It's not a very big menu compared to other Asian restaurants who tend to have menus the size of accounting textbooks.

The server returns and gives us our drinks and asks if we're ready to order. We decided to order 4 items. We went with the chicken balls (kam poong gi), soon tofu stew, BBQ beef short ribs (kal-bi) and pork bone soup. While waiting for our food I noticed the restaurant has gotten a lot busier. I would recommend you either come early or make reservations if you want a table. This place is bumping!

The server returns with bowls of rice, 2 different kinds of kimchi (cabbage and daikon radish), and a plate of cooked bean sprouts. All complimentary by the way, when you run out of kimchi you can always ask for a refill, I believe the limit is 3 refills. I taste all 3 side dishes and I must say they are delicious. The cabbage kimchi was a bit salty, loved the daikon kimchi and not being a big fan of bean sprouts the cooked bean sprouts were pretty good. The advantage I have is that my boyfriend hates kimchi so I get to have it all to myself! Yum!

Shortly after the server brings out a little "hotpot burner" as my boyfriends calls them for the pork bone soup. Our food comes out right after. Everything looked delicious! Mental note for next time, order the pork bone soup when eating with more than 2 people. The soup was huge! Mind you it is about $32 CAD for the soup so it better be big! The chicken balls are deep fried and drenched with Korean sweet chili sauce, the soon tofu stew is bubbling hot in a small bowl, and the kal-bi comes out sizzling on the hot plate, be careful not to burn yourself. No more talking it's time to eat!

You know how sometimes food looks and smells great but the food tastes like crap? That's not the case here! Everything looked delicious and was delicious. I was stuffed like a turkey. I thought I had to get my boyfriend to roll me out to the car. We ask for the bill and I see for 2 people it was a bit pricey about $70 without tip, add the tip in and it'll be about $80.50. Keep in mind though we had a lot of food left over so we packed it up and save it for lunch tomorrow. I believe if you had more people come out and eat and share it probably would be a lot cheaper per person.

Overall, for the service and for the food I would definitely be back and also to try the other dishes on the menu. I recommend all the dishes that I have mentioned in this posting!

Strawberry Rating:
Service: 4 strawberries out of 5
Food: 4 strawberries out of 5
Price: 3.5 strawberries out of 5 (cheaper if you go in a big group and share)
Cleanliness: 4.5 strawberries out of 5 (they need hot water for their sink!)

Overall score: 4 strawberries out of 5


You can find Lee House at:
7904 104 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
Phone: (780) 438-0790

Happy eating!

"The belly rules the mind"  ~Spanish Proverb


***Please note the pictures here were not taken by me and it's not from the restaurant.

Who's ready to eat?!

I know I am! I've decided since I tend to eat out and cook a lot why not have a blog about the restaurants I go to and also post some of my favorite recipes? It'll help me keep track of the places I go to, have a place to store my recipes and maybe help you out with the "what's for dinner?" dilemma. I hope you all enjoy my blog! Happy eating!

"A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat." ~Old New York Proverb