A Week of Deliciousness

Our first box of Blue Apron meals is finished, with great success and enthusiasm for not only the finished products, but also the cooking process. Each recipe includes step-by-step instructions, so if you are a novice cook, just follow the “rules.”

Our first dinner was Katsu-Style Catfish, with a generous portion of cat fish fillets, jasmine rice, and red cabbage for each of us. The directions were easy to follow and put the cooking tasks into the order of longest to shortest cooking time, so everything is done at the same time. Our second meal, spice-rubbed pork, was delicious! I’m not a big bean eater, so I approached the black beans with a bit of skepticism, but they were very good and one of Y’s favorites for the week. The third meal was chicken meatballs & fregola sarda, which tasted better than it sounds. Y was skeptical that we could turn the small amount of chicken meat into the recommended 10 meatballs, but I told him to follow the rules (which is what southern cooks call a recipe) and do the tasks in order and as directed and then we would judge the results. End result? He’s delighted that there are left-overs for his lunch today.

We’re excited to anticipate our next box. We enjoyed cooking together, as well as the end result. The most labor-intensive meal was, surprisingly, the chicken meatball dinner, but that was more because the pearl pasta had to come to a boil and then cook for 15 minutes. We ended up waiting for it to finish so we could move on to the next step in the directions. That menu also came with fresh kale, which we seasoned and wilted into the red sauce, and it was so good. The seasonings were perfect and made for quite the tasty veggie, one which we will make again using store-bought ingredients.

Yep, we can’t wait for this coming week’s box of goodies. Y is especially pleased that we made dishes that all tasted like restaurant meals, rather than something far too over the top for us to enjoy. We’re doing this for a month to see if it works for us, but based on week one’s offerings, we’re all-in.

I give Blue Apron an A+ and an enthusiastic "hell ya!"