We're back, finally. We had some trouble with a food service that was rather unreliable so we didn't both reviewing any of the food. We're on a new meal service--Mosaic--which offers fresh vegetarian and vegan food you microwave. Let's dive into our first dishes!
Since the portions are individual, we may try both or only try one depending on previously established preferences (e.g. Nick hates pesto).
Hmmm. Well, the butternut is good, the pasta is good, the walnuts that were in here for some reason was fine, the sage... was not great. Once I stirred this together everything was coated in minced sage. It's hard to really enjoy pasta or butternut squash when all you can taste is thick sage coating. I don't think I would get this one again, or maybe perform an emergency sage-ectomy before mixing it all up. A more accurate title would be SAGE covering butternut squash and pasta.
Katie breaking in: I tried Nick's butternut dish. My first bite must not have had the sage overload on it because I thought it was good, reminiscent of Evol's Butternut Squash ravioli if you've had that. Unfortunately, my bites after Nick was done and it was all mixed were not as good. I found myself hunting for butternut squash pieces without green or cavatappi without green. With the green, it was just...yuck. If the dish had toned way down on the sage, it would have been quite good.
Off-topic but Panera used to have a butternut squash ravioli dish in the fall that I absolutely loved. They killed it though when they went on that "clean" food thing...kinda ruined the taste of most of their dishes, I think. I still like a couple things but it's not at all hard to decide what I want anymore.
The only thing I did not enjoy was this green stuff. I think it was the broccoli rabe because spinach is usually fine once it's been wilted down and cooked. It was all planty, not at all pleasant. However, the rest of the dish was great! The tomatoes were amazingly flavorful. I enjoyed spearing a cavatappi curl with a tomato piece that had the exact right amount of creamy pesto sauce drizzle on it. I would definitely, definitely eat this again.
