Guilty Pleasures:Farm Rich Frozen Panini’s
January 19, 2009 by Marye Audet
Filed under Reviews
Farm Rich is a company that specializes in frozen items such as appetizers, snacks, and finger foods. They contacted me and offered to send me some product samples and I swear about two days later the box came in the mail, or UPS, or Pony Express, or however they sent it. Point is, it got here fast.
They sent me two HUGE boxes of product. I guess they had done their homework and knew that I had to feed an army. I will say this, the company is generous.
Farm Rich is coming out with two new products next month. Chicken and cheese quesadillas and a chicken panini with grilled artichoke pesto; and they send me boxes of each.
On the boxes it says that the product can be microwaved so I took one panini and one quesadilla out to microwave them
This is what I got:
Don’t try this at home, kids. Seriously? It only takes about 20 minutes to bake the things in the oven. Don’t microwave them. They come out soggy and chewy.
BUT….Bake them and you end up with a really good snack/lunch/light dinner item.
That is the chicken panini with the artichoke pesto. Again, very good when baked. Both items had a generous amount of cheese and chicken, and other ingredients so you weren’t just biting into dough. The crust was flavorful, not too salty, and had a nice texture. The family was pretty equally divided on which of the two was best, with slightly more of my family liking the quesadillas.
The quesadillas do have some heat to them, and the jalapenos are pretty generously sprinkled in there. These would work great for the Super Bowl table, a quick lunch with a soup or salad, or just about anything you wanted.
I liked them and I would buy them. On a scale of 1-10 I give them a 7. Why a 7? Because the box says you can microwave them and if you do you will be disappointed. Those people who don’t read Baking Delights (can you imagine that there ARE people who don’t?) will not know that microwaving these is a mistake.
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I stopped in from Abby Sweet’s blog to say hi! These look like guilty pleasures indeed!
Thanks for coming by! Yep they were awesome. We don;t do this type of thing often..which is why they were guilty pleasures of course.
Okay, we buy microwave stuff for my college daughter. She has a Foreman grill. Would it work in there do you think?
Diana I think it would work really well. You CAN microwave them but they are just not as good.