{"id":873,"date":"2010-03-21T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2010-03-21T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:59:57","slug":"perfect-blend-instant-mashed-potato-flakes-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2010\/03\/perfect-blend-instant-mashed-potato-flakes-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Blend Instant Mashed Potato Flakes &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/Cabernet-Braised-Short-Ribs-with-Gorgonzola-Polenta-and-Mixed-Herb-Gremolata-240108\">Wine Braised Short Ribs with Mixed Herb Gremolata<\/a> for dinner (they were delicious, btw, and I plan to copy the recipe to this blog). They were supposed to be served with Gorgonzola polenta, and while I remembered to buy the Gorgonzola, I didn&#8217;t realize until the last possible moment that I had forgotten the polenta.  AND, I didn&#8217;t have any starches at home.  I wanted a starch to soak in all the delicious braising liquid (and delicious it was).  I was in a bind.<br \/>\nSo I hurried to Grocery Outlet, across the street, with the dim hope of finding some polenta, or at least another quick-cooking starch.  These boxed mashed potatoes were the best that I could do.  And lord, were they bad &#8211; so bad even the kids (no gourmets and not very picky) thought they sucked.  In reality, they tasted just like the cardboard box.  I don&#8217;t really understand why &#8211; but they really were inedible.<br \/>\nSo hearken me, and avoid them at all costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I made Wine Braised Short Ribs with Mixed Herb Gremolata for dinner (they were delicious, btw, and I plan to copy the recipe to this blog). They were supposed to be served with Gorgonzola polenta, and while I remembered to buy the Gorgonzola, I didn&#8217;t realize until the last possible moment that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}