The Brazi brand isn’t too far off from that homemade variety or restaurant versions. Grade: A - Sietsemaīrazi Bites garlic asiago cheese bread (18 pieces, $5.99): Two years ago, one of my co-workers brought pao de queijo to a potluck I was hooked almost immediately. The only problem was that they needed some sort of dipping sauce, a chutney perhaps, though a spoonful of yogurt would do quite nicely, too. They had a bit of heat to them, and if one ate all eight, it would be a very filling meal. Grade: A+ - SuttonĬhicken tikka samosas Robert Sietsema/Eater NYĬhicken tikka samosas by Deep Indian Kitchen (eight pieces, 7.5 ounces, $5.99): These small samosas, baked to a deep brown in 15 minutes or so, were nicely moist inside with plenty of chicken in a fairly dry, dairy-driven sauce. The cakes are firm and chewy, sporting a wonderful QQ bounce, while the fish cakes add umami. It eventually causes a gentle brow sweat. The gochugaru chile is mild at first, but the spice level quickly builds - keeping pace with the ample sugars and salt. The cakes take some work to prepare: Thaw out them out in water, fry them in a pan with sweet-spicy chile sauce, then add fish cakes and scallions. K-town “Mad Spicy” wheat flour cakes (1.32 pounds, $4.99): There’s nothing like the famous pork fat tteokbokki at Hanjan, but K-town’s wheat flour cakes easily outmatch many restaurant versions. K-Town’s “mad spicy” tteokbokki Ryan Sutton/Eater And a tip: While Whole Foods might be more cleaned out of frozen product, certain locations of H Mart are better-stocked. Spoiler: Savory meat pies did not fare as well. They visited Whole Foods, Westerly Natural Market, Gristedes, H Mart, Health & Harmony, and Duane Reade. To keep the list focused, the critics skipped frozen pizza and frozen dessert (for now). New forms of organic, flash-frozen comestibles - and older classics like pizza rolls, pierogis, and shrimp shumai - make these chilly goods a fine option any day of the week, especially for a prospective quarantine.Ĭritics Ryan Sutton and Robert Sietsema donned their fur parkas to explore the icy depths of the freezer case here’s what they found, rated by letter grade. For some, the frozen food section of a local supermarket or bodega might as well be Siberia. The COVID-19 era makes new demands on the public’s ability to acquire daily nourishment - be it through the restaurant shutdown or through limits on visiting a market for fresh produce and meats. Now that’s how long we queue up to gain admittance to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Long Island. Once upon a time, we would wait 30 minutes or more to get into a hip natural wine bar in Brooklyn.
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