Round 3: Cafe Rio Chicken vs Zuppa Toscana

	Cafe Rio Chicken	Zuppa Toscana
Prep time/ease of ingredients (15 pts)	15	10
Likeliness of making it again (20 pts)	12	15
Overall Flavor (50 pts)	40	47
Value $ (15 pts)	12	9

Final Score:
Cafe Rio Chicken 79 Zuppa Toscana 81

Tricia, from Crockpot Tuesdays, is our expert reporter that got to try out these two winning dishes.  Tricia, what did you think?

Cafe Rio Chicken

Cafe Rio Chicken:
I love chicken tacos (or tacos of any sort, really) so I was really glad to have an opportunity to make this recipe. The flavor was really interesting and not like anything I’ve ever had before. As I prepared the recipe this morning, I was a little nervous about the chicken drying out because there wasn’t a ton of liquid. As it turned out, I was worrying for nothing! The chicken was moist and flavorful when I got home from work. Prep time and value are huge positives for this recipe. I will probably make this recipe again, but the next time we have chicken tacos I will probably go back to my old recipe.

Zuppa Toscana

Zuppa Toscana:
I was really looking forward to the Zuppa Toscana — I’ve had it starred in my Google Reader for a long time! This soup was delicious, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that it got better with each bite. The prep time got a few points taken off because of having to brown the sausage and chop the veggies, and another negative to this recipe is that it does not use staples that I normally have in my pantry. However, the flavor of this soup is well worth it, and I’ll definitely make it again.

On a side note, these 2 recipes are some of the most searched recipes on my blog.  So I was very interested to see how they would match up side by side.  Both are seriously making my mouth water right now.  Yum.  Thanks, Tricia!