"excellent recipe. i'm a dark chocolate fan myself, and i've found that using a dark chocolate pudding cake mix is great. i've made this many times, and my favorite version so far is adding 1 to 2 teaspoons of instant espresso powder (beat in with the butter and cream cheese), a pinch of extra salt and half a bag of dark chocolate chips for texture"

"exceptional flavor and fairly easy to make, just a lot of chopping. i love that you don't need a slow cooker and the flavor is very robust. my boyfriend loves it, too :

the first time i made this, however, it was a bit watered down even with 4 cups of broth, so this time i'm reducing it to 3 cups.

it might require you to purchase a lot of spice"

"exceptional flavor and fairly easy to make, just a lot of chopping. i love that you don't need a slow cooker and the flavor is very robust. my boyfriend loves it, too :)

the first time i made this, however, it was a bit watered down even with 4 cups of broth, so this time i'm reducing it to 3 cups.

it might require you to purchase a lot of spic"

"excellent recipe. i used a moist dark chocolate cake mix, but also added about half a teaspoon of salt to balance the sweet out a bit more. they really are like a dense, semi-cooked cake, and they get even better after a day or two in the cookie jar! the flavor is not "punch you in the face", but a little more subtle and not too sweet, which is exactly why i love it. i did cook them for about 13-14 minutes to get a tad more of the goo out, and they were fine.

"while this dish took me about an hour to prepare (the first time, fresh from the store so i had to process all veggies and i have a very small kitchen that's tough to work in), the flavors were really great and i would recommend this for any family dinner/get together.

i did have to add more chicken stock to the rice as it was cooking, probably about 1/2 - 3/4C, to get it to not be crunchy, and i added quite a bit of salt/pepper/nutmeg but then i'm used to cooking smaller batches of food; just season to taste, remembering that the feta will add a bit of that salty flavor as well. the steak was very tender and flavorful with the sauce (i hand squeezed an entire small-ish lemon, tasted fine). i might substitute a little fresh oregano on the tomatoes instead of parsley next time.

overall a low stress meal to prepare, and well worth the energy.