In the Kitchen With Mattie

Roasted Chicken Ravioli

See the picture above? Doesn’t that make your mouth just get ready for a great dinner? Well it did us! Unfortunately it was terrible, well at least to us it was. I should explain why………Last night we went to Sams to pick up a few things for our Labor Day BBQ and I spotted these ravioli in their case, the package said Roasted Chicken and Cheese Ravioli……YMMMM….ravioli is one of our favorites and I have made roasted chicken ravioli from scratch before, it takes quite a bit of time and these in the case looked so pretty we decided to give them a try. I am trying to make some things this week that won’t be on our BBQ so we get some variety this week. Today I took two chicken breasts out of the freezer and seasoned them then let them sit to defrost, I figured I would make a quick dinner of the chicken breasts and some ravioli all baked together with some mozzarella. The pasta being what the store labels as “fresh”, although how fresh could it possibly be when it has an expiration date more than 30 days away, would only take a few minutes to cook, mixed with some home made sauce and cheese and then baked for a few minutes and topped with the breasts that were sauteed on the stove top. It was a very simple dinner to plan and cook and was done in under 30 minutes and it looked so pretty and appetizing when I brought it to the table. We each took a portion and hubby took a bite and didn’t say anything, he just gave me a funny little look. I asked him if it was alright and he still didn’t say anything but took a few bites of his chicken. I cut one of the large ravioli in half and took a bite, it was quite nice I thought. I ate a bit of my chicken breast and noticed hubby hadn’t touched his ravioli again, I cut a second ravioli in half and took one half up on my fork, as I took the first chew of it I almost choked…………it was nothing but raw garlic stuffed inside the pasta. Now I should say hubby is not fond of a strong garlic flavor, me on the other hand I like the taste of a bit of garlic and if you have been reading this blog you know I do use it and hubby eats all the foods I use it in. Neither one of us however are fond of raw garlic and especially not fond of getting a mouth full of raw garlic stuffed into pasta that is supposed to be filled with chicken and cheese. Hubby finished his chicken breast and dumped his ravioli in the trash can…………me on the other hand cut into each one of the ravioli and found that they were all different, some were indeed what the package acclaimed them to be and others were just filled with a bit of cheese and then others with nothing but raw garlic, in any case I think the manufacturers need to get someone on their quality control issue with these, we sure won’t be buying them again and tonights dinner was a real bust for us. Thank goodness I didn’t serve them for dinner tomorrow night as it is our 40th anniversary and hubby would have thought I was trying to get rid of him, he just ate a bowl of cereal to make up for his non existant dinner. If you really love the taste of raw garlic you may want to try these from Sams, they are in the refridgerator cases (not freezer cases) near the fresh meat area.

Roasted Chicken Ravioli

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