Marina…

The other day, my missus cooked some frozen meat balls in ragù sauce and we had them with rice for dinner. It was nice but I was thinking that those would be a lot nicer served with pasta.

That was why the next day seeing how there were still quite a lot left, she boiled some linguine, tossed it well with the sauce and served with the meat balls and a generous sprinkling of parmesan cheese…

Yes, it was really very nice and if you are wondering what meat balls those were, they were actually beef balls, Marina Brand…

I must say that I quite like their products.

For their beef balls, they use lean meat and they are not so firm or in other words, they do not have much of that QQ fish ball texture so one can still get a bit of the texture of minced meat plus they do not have any offensive smell – many of those frozen meat balls, pork or beef, have a very strong smell, so strong that when I taste that in the ones in my chap chap (mixed) soup at the noodles stall, I would just leave them by the side, uneaten.

These are definitely much nicer than buying the frozen minced beef and making your own owing to the amount of fat. My missus tried that once to cook bakso and there was so much oil in the soup that it was quite inedible and we had to throw it all away.

Their Salisbury beef (beef patties) are also very nice. We had those…

…for our Christmas dinner a long time ago, 2012.

Unfortunately, other than their sardines…

…(my favourite – my missus prefers Ayam) and perhaps, their baked beans in tomato sauce, their products are not that well marketed, not so easily available here.

My missus bought these beef balls at the supermarket round the corner from my house. With the current lockdown, I don’t know when we will drop by there again – not so soon, I guess but when we do and should we see any of their frozen products still available, we would definitely want to grab them to stock up and keep in our freezer to enjoy whenever we feel like it.

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