Wednesday, November 16, 2005

CHIK'N


A few nights ago be made a yummy dinner which included the new Morningstar Farms Meal Starters CHIK'N Strips. I love fake meat and consider be and myself to be connoisseurs. That being said, we both proclaim CHIK'N Strips to be the best fake chicken we've had so far! Chik Patties are good and so are the fake chicken nuggets from May Wah, but both of them are for specific purposes: breaded sandwich patties and nuggets for dipping, respectively. Some people really swear by Quorn brand but we found the "Chicken-style recipe tenders" to be dry; however both their "Naked cutlets" and "Chicken-style cutlets" are quite good. As for the CHIK'N Strips, they ended up quite juicy and had a good texture. Since it's in strip form, you can add them easily to pasta or stir-fries and season them however you want. Additionally, unlike some fake meat, CHIK'N is 100% vegan (contains no animal products) and 1 serving has 21 grams of protein. Right now it's not on their website yet, and we've only seen CHIK'N in one supermarket in Queens (that's the Northern Blvd Stop & Shop, btw) but hopefully it's a hit and won't get discontinued like Morningstar's delicious fake meat "hot pockets!" Now the search is on for a decent fake bacon...

posted by beXn @ 12:38 PM

5 Comments:

At 11:17 AM, November 16, 2005, Blogger Cristin said...

Jeannie, I like your food blog so much I DREAMED about it last night! No joke!

I had a dream that you put out a call for the best-tasting wackiest recipes and you were going to cook them all and have "be" declare a winner. Weird right?

Even weirder was Shap and I had an argument in the dream about WHAT recipe to send you (for some reason we assumed we could only submit a recipe as couple, and not individual recipes). I forget what Shap's recipe was, but I was making a hard case for sending in recipe for potato chip cookies...

This is what I get for eating old Halloween candy before bed!

 
At 3:02 PM, November 16, 2005, Blogger edward garcia said...

that sounds like a great IDea, a great idea indeed. Maybe I can convince Jeannie to do this. I will declare a winner, yaaay.

 
At 1:05 AM, November 22, 2005, Blogger beXn said...

This is a grand idea! I'll make up some official rules and get this recipe contest underway! I don't know about be's judging capabilities though. If he's eating Oreos & Broccoli Pasta and Gummi Bear Soup and Garlic Chocolate Cake, he might pass out halfway through.

 
At 11:16 PM, February 06, 2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So I found this blog by accident while looking for info on a dicontinued morningstar farms product. At any rate, by far the best fake chicken I've ever found is Veat. My husband and I love it way more than the Morningstar farms chik'n stuff. If you can get a hold of it, I highly recommend it.

 
At 12:39 PM, September 04, 2007, Blogger beXn said...

Thanks for the tip! We just found VEAT at our local natural foods shop and can't wait to check it out!

 

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