Saturday, June 26, 2010

Mrs. Leeper (who needs a name that does not make me think of an illness that causes necrosis) produces an array of pastas and Hamburger Helper-type meals, including something akin to Tuna Helper, mac and cheese, and chicken alfredo. 

I found Mrs. Leper--I mean LEEPER.  Leeper.  I found Mrs. Leeper's beef lasagna dinner on FBC and decided to give it a shot.  I'm always looking for things to eat that don't require a lot of work.

What do you need?  You need about a pound of ground meat or tofu, the box, and some water.  Brown your meat (does tofu brown?) and drain it.  Put the meat stuff or not meat stuff in with the sauce mix and 3 cups of hot water.  Boil it and then add the pasta.  Cook it covered for 10 minutes and then remove it from heat.  It will be violently, horribly, tremendously, dangerously hot.  Don't even attempt to eat it for like, a half hour. 

I speak from experience.  I burned the CRAP out of my mouth by just waiting 10 minutes. 

Add a little cheese and voila, it's a meal!

The noodles are good and have a consistency like egg noodles.  The meat is what you make of it.  The flavor of the sauce and everything together reminded me of Stouffer's frozen lasagna, which isn't great but is pretty good.  And even better if you can't eat lasagna! 

Because I'm single and live alone, I packaged up the rest of it and put it in the fridge.  How did it hold up?  I microwaved it for 3 and a half minutes (my wattage is probably lower than yours) and stirred it halfway through.  The pasta was fine, not mushy at all.  The flavor was still good.  And it wasn't as LAVA-LIKE as it was when I first cooked it.  It passed the leftover test!  Hurrah!

So I would recommend this.  I don't know about the other meals, as I can't get them.  But now I would love to try them and see how they are.  It seems that even though Mrs. Leeper might have an unfortunate name, she does not have an unfortunate product.