Crab Manicotti
Husband gave it a thumbs up. Maybe it's the curse of the chef working so hard they never enjoy their creations, but I thought it needed more kick. Found that I could only stuff 7 noodles, and I felt they could have used more stuffing at that, husband said fill was perfect. 9X9 pan was too small, but 9X13 was too large. Sauce ran off of top on noodles into side and I needed to spoon sauce on top mid bake to keep from drying out.
Mozzerella Sticks
I succumb to the cooking gods on this one. My husband deemed the dip too bland, I thought it tasted like a thin, bitter dill dip with too much lemon. The first stick breaded nicely, but after that the panko was so caked with egg that it was hard to bread the other sticks. I think I've watched hells kitchen too many times I can pick out the individual tastes now. I've decided that I don't like the taste of Italian Seasoning and this breading was heavy on this flavor. Perhaps if there had been a baking option to this recipe I would have liked it, but frying it did not work well. The recipe calls for 5 minutes at 350 I had the sticks in barely 2 minutes at 300 and they began to burn evaporating the cheese inside. I like to fry a couple of things in a week before I throw out the oil to avoid waste, but after making these the oil is unusable. The breading broke off and burnt ruining the oil for any other cooking.
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