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Millennials are finding hope up the frozen food aisle - Salon
Small-batch soufflés and Parisian lamb served with herb inflected demi-glace are among the frozen grocery offerings
I’m a total food snob, so I was shocked to really like my Trader Joe’s steamed chicken soup dumplings, which I plucked from the freezer aisle and microwaved according to the package directions for two minutes in their cute little tray. The broth was gingery and satisfying, the dumpling skin was tender but not gluey and the whole meal only set me back $2.99. But I was still a little hungry — the soup dumplings were half the size of the ones at my local Chinese restaurant — so I defrosted a few Applegate organic chicken strips, which were lightly breaded and perfect dunked in jalapeno ketchup. For dessert, a Diana’s Bananas frozen dark chocolate dipped banana, made from only banana, chocolate and peanut oil, virtuous yet satisfactorily decadent. My first frozen meal in a very long time was a success.
Small-batch soufflés and Parisian lamb served with herb inflected demi-glace are among the frozen grocery offerings
I’m a total food snob, so I was shocked to really like my Trader Joe’s steamed chicken soup dumplings, which I plucked from the freezer aisle and microwaved according to the package directions for two minutes in their cute little tray. The broth was gingery and satisfying, the dumpling skin was tender but not gluey and the whole meal only set me back $2.99. But I was still a little hungry — the soup dumplings were half the size of the ones at my local Chinese restaurant — so I defrosted a few Applegate organic chicken strips, which were lightly breaded and perfect dunked in jalapeno ketchup. For dessert, a Diana’s Bananas frozen dark chocolate dipped banana, made from only banana, chocolate and peanut oil, virtuous yet satisfactorily decadent. My first frozen meal in a very long time was a success.