Yves redux

Alright, I was hard on Yves in my last post about them. So I thought I'd share my latest positive experience with one of their products. I bought some of Yves Meatless Ground. I am a sucker for sales at the grocery store. I understand that many of these "sale" prices are somewhat artificial, but I still go for them, especially when they have those five special words: "Buy one, get one free". Oh yeah. So I got a couple of these fake ground beef things.

Now the trick was to figure out what to do with it. I ended up feeling a bit nostalgic for the cuisine of my youth. Sweet, sweet Hamburger Helper. Lasagna flavor to be exact. Using the fake meat actually was pretty darn good in the HH. I'd say that kids and many adults wouldn't think too much about it if they tried this. The texture is a bit different (bit chewy), but really the flavor comes from the HH packet anyway. And the Meatless ground is a bit cheaper than the real thing. Especially at buy one get one free.

I've got to discuss Yves

OK, so I am vegetarian. I'm not a lifelong vegetarian though. If you spend more than 10 minutes with my grandpa, he'll surely tell you about how many pork chops I could put away at an early age. Mmmmm, pork chops. Anyway, the point is that I really like meat products. I crave meatiness quite often. To satiate these urges, I'll buy the occasional meatless meat product. I would do the "meatless meatballs = just balls" joke here, but it has been played out (I wouldn't stoop so low). By the way, the Gardenburger meatballs are the best of the lot. But I'm not here to talk about balls (ha! I stooped!).

Tonight I tried the Yves Beef Skewers. Oh man. They weren't good. I tried to overlook the visual nastiness (see photo), but it was still nasty. I will avoid a written description of how the stuff looked and just provide a picture. I think I should have a "write the caption" contest for this stuff. Please comment if you have a good caption for the skewer picture. I have about 37 I could think of off the top of my head.

Anyway, I don't recommend this stuff. Pretty nasty.