Today's TGI Friday's frozen food review will focus on the Prime Rib Strogonoff. I wanted to do this review for a while but I did not have much free time, but I did it anyway. As always I am making two 12-ounce packages into 1 and Prime Rib Strogonoff comes in plastic trays inside cardboard boxes rather than in plastic bags. The reason for this is that TGIF wants you to prep this meal only in the microwave oven, and not on the frying pan. But I went my way and defrosted the meals for 1 minute one at a time and then layered them on top of the frying pan.













After the meal was ready, I let it sit for 2 minutes and began eating it. The frying pan approach definitely paid off here since everything was stirred uniformly, and you can stir like that while prepping it in the microwave over. I tried the similar pasta/meat/sauce meals by Banquet before in the microwave and they just don't cut it when it comes to frying pan cooking and premium TGIF taste. The first things that I forked into my mouth was strogonoff-drenched pasta, I always try it first in the kinds of meal. To my surprise the sauce-pasta combo was very tasty, but I bet that the included pasta on it own would taste average. This is quality pasta none the less. Then I tried the cube of beef and it taste pleasantly somewhere in the middle; the meat itself was very soft and tender, most likely marinated in some liquid to bring up the taste. The only thing that was a turn-off here is a lot of cracked pepper bits: the meal is loaded with them and I definitely felt it. I often had to spit the pepper bits out and at the end when I was done with the meal, I wanted to lick the plate clean (I don't let the good stuff to get wasted) but the remaining pepper bits in the sauce was an obstacle for my intent, so I just washed the plate clean.

My verdict on Prime Rib Strogonoff is that it is very good and worthy meal except for the fact of excessive use of cracked pepper. Maybe the lots of cracked peppers was just a "sour" batch that I happened to buy, but maybe the guys in the lab thought that Americans would love the idea of lots of cracked pepper; I don't know the answer for sure. The pasta, meat and most important the sauce was a very good combination and I will definitely buy this meal in the future again. Give it a try and tell me what you think about it.