Coronary bistro?"Our chefs were inspired to create these tantalizing tan·ta·lize tr.v. tan·ta·lized, tan·ta·liz·ing, tan·ta·liz·es To excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach. new recipes based on neighborhood restaurant favorites," explains the label on Stouffer's new line of six Corner Bistro frozen entrees. Great. Restaurant food is high enough in calories, saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be , and sodium these days. Now Stouffer's wants us to bring the bistro home? Thanks a lot. Take the Chicken Carbonara car·bo·na·ra n. A sauce for pasta containing eggs, minced bacon or ham, grated cheese, and seasonings. [Italian (alla) carbonara, (from) a charcoal grill, from carbone, , an "herb-seasoned chicken breast served with linguine tossed in a creamy Parmesan sauce with bacon and peas." It packs 530 calories, close to a day's sodium (1,380 milligrams), and more than half a day's saturated fat (12 grams). You'd get roughly the same calories and sat fat in two Banquet Meat Loaf Meals. Corner Bistro's Monterey Chicken isn't much better. Its 500 calories, 8 grams of sat fat, and 1,310 mg of sodium are in the same ballpark as a Stouffer's Salisbury Steak Dinner. The Grilled Rosemary Chicken and Seafood Scampi aren't quite as bad (5 grams of sat fat), and the Sesame Chicken Sesame chicken (also called sesame seed chicken) is a Chinese American dish commonly found in Chinese take-out and buffet restaurants in the United States. The dish is very similar to General Tso's chicken, and, like that dish, likely derives from Hunan cuisine. and Garlic Pasta Chicken (roughly 2 grams of sat fat) would be quite good if they weren't so high in sodium. "Bring the bistro home," says Stouffer's. Our advice: buy your chicken breasts fresh and season them with garlic and pepper or rosemary, thyme thyme (tīm), any species of the genus Thymus, aromatic herbs or shrubby plants of the family Labiatae (mint family). The common thyme, which is used as a seasoning herb and yields a medicinal essential oil containing thymol, is the Old World , and lemon juice ... and leave the bistro right where it is. Stouffer's: (800) 225-1180. |
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