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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Olive Garden's New Shrimp Parmesan
I generally like Olive Garden (Although I don't like the recent pairing of increased prices and decreased portion sizes) but I don't recommend their new shrimp permesan and steak parmesan. It has a lot of potential. They know how to grill shrimp (a little iffy on the steak unless you like it rare to medium rare) and make cheese ravioli. The tomatoes, spinach, and mushroom vegetable trio usually works well. And the vino bianco cream sauce is a fascinating blend of wine, cream, and lots of spices that make for a speckled sauce with great flavor, or would be a great flavor if it were hot. However, for reasons beyond my comprehension, they've decided to add fresh, refrigerator-cold chopped tomatoes, spinach leaves, and mushroom quarters and I don't think there is anyway that dish will get to the table with warm sauce. I like fresh vegetables. They make a great salad. But I don't normally mix my salad into my hot pasta dish. Al dente, yes, cold salad vegetables, no. It just didn't work.
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