{"id":2235,"date":"2019-09-23T02:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2021-10-14T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:03:09","slug":"review-mozzarella-stuffed-meatball-bake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2019\/09\/review-mozzarella-stuffed-meatball-bake\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hello Fresh&#8217; Mozzarella Stuffed Meatball Bake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rating: 4\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-2759-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG-2759-1024x517.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After being off meal kits all summer (both because I wasn&#8217;t cooking and because I didn&#8217;t get any good &#8220;come back&#8221; offers), I went back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellofresh.com?c=MARGALACA&amp;utm_source=raf-share&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=clipboard\">HelloFresh<\/a> after getting a &#8220;65% off  your first box&#8221; deal.   Apparently I had forgotten just how hard it was to find meals that I actually wanted to make, which is why I ended up selecting this kit for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellofresh.com\/recipes\/mozzarella-stuffed-meatball-bake-5d485cff697799001517c622?week=2019-W38\">Mozzarella-Stuffed Meatball Bake<br> with Cavatappi and a Crispy Panko Topping<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truth be told, I love pasta baked with sauce and cheese, and I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of good meatballs as well.  Still, this is the sort of dish I can easily make on my own and, as it turned out, much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were lots of things wrong with this dish.  First, baking the meatballs was a mistake, they were left dry and with a crusty shell.  The recipe also called for too much salt.  Second, the tomato sauce was pretty tasteless.  No wonder, making a pasta sauce requires a long simmering town.  This dish would have been much better with a commercial pasta sauce.  Finally, the mozzarella cheese was pretty bland.  The dish could really have used some Parmesan cheese instead of the bread crumbs that was included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG-2748-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG-2748-1024x627.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I paid ~$8.50 for this meal kit for two people with the discount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: 4\/10 After being off meal kits all summer (both because I wasn&#8217;t cooking and because I didn&#8217;t get any good &#8220;come back&#8221; offers), I went back to HelloFresh after getting a &#8220;65% off your first box&#8221; deal. Apparently I had forgotten just how hard it was to find meals that I actually wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[395,404,89],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","tag-hello-fresh","tag-hellofresh-meal-kit-reviews","tag-pasta","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}