Meal Subscription Boxes

I'll throw this out there. I have zero experience cooking fish. I figured it would be nice to try to learn for my husband's sake. This box offered BBQ summer salon with snap pea and fennel slaw. It looked pretty yummy:

The Contents:

Just a quick update here. I know I still need to review Blue Apron. I haven't forgotten about it, I'm just waiting for a week when three recipes look appealing. So far, I can't get into the recipes. They offer six choices each week.

I loved Home Chef so much that I ordered another box from them. Their recipes sound too delicious to pass up.

The first meal I made was: Sherry wine demi-glace flat-iron steak with whipped potatoes and asparagus. Mmm!

The Contents:

Preparation:

 In the other pot, boil the potatoes until tender. Small gripe: The instructions didn't give a suggested time. I had to Google, because I literally had no idea. Once tender, add cream, butter, garlic, salt, and pepper and mash together:



Cook the steaks:


Finally, prepare the sauce by combining the veal demi, sherry wine, and water.

Finished Product:

Final Verdict:

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The Final Product:

The Verdict:

The best recipe of my Home Chef box was this recipe, parisian bistro steak with potatoes dauphinoise and green beans. I knew it would be good based on the calorie count alone: 936 calories per serving. MMmmm...

The Contents:

Preparation:

Season the steaks with salt and pepper:



Next, prepare the potatoes. This involved first boiling the potatoes for 8-10 minutes. Next, the cream, half the cheese, shallots, and half the chives were added. This mixture was brought to a boil and then simmered for 5 minutes. After that, the potatoes were put into the oven and baked for another 15-18 minutes.


Next, cook the steaks. Cooking meat still feels like a hit or miss, even with the suggested cook times. At least with Home Chef, the meat portions have matched the pictures.  One steak came out perfect, the other I had to cook a little longer than suggested.


As soon as the steaks were done, I did the last two steps at the same time. These were to cook the beans and prepare the sauce.  The sauce was a wonderful mixtures of beef base (do I even want to know what that is?), remaining shallots, and 1/2 cup water in the steak juice pan.

The green beans were simply sauteed in butter for 7 minutes. These were so tasty!

Final Product:

The Verdict:

The first Home Chef dinner I made was french-cut chicken breast with mozzarella, pesto, and balsamic reduction caprese salad:

The Contents:

Preparation:

Next, coat the chicken with the herb blend and cook in skillet. Transfer to oven to finish cooking.


Saute the spinach:


Make balsamic reduction:


Unexpected step: cut mozzarella ball into balls. The cup says ballS, but there was definitely only one large ball of cheese:


Plate and enjoy!

Final Product:

The Verdict: