Dinner - Tuna Noodle Ricecookered

The Meal

Experimentation night! I have 6 packets of velveta cheese that are 3 months passed their best buy, which makes me sad. So Tonight I am attempting to find out if they are still good. Upon opening one, smelling and tasting it, I determined it was safe to consume, if nothing else. My recipe is one I have used in the past

This meal was prepared in several parts:

• 1 tablespoon Chopped Onions (dried)
  [5 calories]
• 1 Tbsp veggie oil
  [120 calories]

Fried those little onions up real quick, had the button held down by a file.
Then I put the pasta in, 1:1 ratio with water. Tonight I was using small shell pasta, cook time estimated at 6-8 minutes.

• 1 cup shell pasta
  [266 calories]
  

After 8 minutes of cooking, I added in 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup velveta cheese sauce, 2/3 cups peas, 1/4 cup breadcrumbs, and 1 5 oz can of chicken of the sea white albacore tuna. One note, if your rice cooker has a tendency to burn stuff on the bottom like mine, stir it every 3 minutes, you'll get nice and crunchy parts from the burning breadcrumbs :)

• 1/4 cup breadcrumbs
  [120 calories]
• 5 oz tuna
  [150 calories]
• 2/3 cups peas
  [80 calories]
• 1/2 cup milk
  [45 calories]
• 1/2 cup velveeta cheese
  [160 calories]
  

Taste

Review: Well then, that was mighty tastey. Sure, I added a little bit of salt and lots of garlic pepper, but I always use garlic pepper on my tuna cassarole. The cheese was good, the meal went great with a blue moon honey ale, which was nice. Each time I took a serving (3 times) I let the bottom burn considerably, then scooped it up, making it perfect.

Side note: Goes great with Honey Moon Summer Ale

Portion Size: 3 medium portions

Calories: 986

Score: 7/10