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  • “Final” Blue Apron Review Series – Smoky Chicken & Brown Butter-Orange Sauce

    “Final” Blue Apron Review Series – Smoky Chicken & Brown Butter-Orange Sauce

    This month we are reviewing the meal order service Blue Apron! Each week we’re going to review a new recipe, and in the last installment we’ll look at the service as a whole. Each week we’ll score on three key points: Quality of Ingredients, Ease of Instructions, and Taste. Each will have a five-point scale: 1-Poor, 2-Could be Better, 3-Okay, 4-Good, and 5-Excellent.

    This week’s, and the final, recipe we tried from Blue Apron was the Smoky Chicken & Brown Butter-Orange Sauce with Sautéed Cabbage & Mashed Potatoes.

    Quality of Ingredients: All of the ingredients for this recipe were very good. The produce was fresh and in good condition. The honey and butter were of great quality individually packaged in the correct amounts. The portions also seemed very appropriate.

    Ease of Instructions: The instructions for this recipe were the most complicated yet. With multiple steps and times occurring simultaneously, things did get confusing. I ended up keeping the chicken in a little too long, but thankfully it wasn’t overdone.

    Taste: The flavor of this recipe was excellent. I really enjoyed the spice blend with the sauce on the chicken. There was a great depth of flavor with the spice, fat and acid of the sauce with the brightness and sweet flavor of the orange. The potatoes and cabbage were simple but also paired well with the sauce and chicken.

    Overall: Blue Apron overall provided great recipes with good quality ingredients. The recipes were sometimes confusing, but reading them through once or twice before beginning helped with that. The service was prompt with email alerts and an app to help you order and track your meals. I found this convenient. All orders ship at the beginning of the month, so you can’t simply order a meal at any point, which wasn’t a problem for me. However, due to inclement weather the first delivery was delayed a day. This just meant I needed to plan around it. The flavor of all the recipes were excellent. The attention to detail with the combination of ingredients is really amazing. Especially when there are so few ingredients in each one. I love the cards they give for each recipe as well. I’ll definitely hold on to these and make them again. Overall I’d give Blue Apron a 4.5/5. It’s a great service!

  • Personal Shepard’s Pie

    Personal Shepard’s Pie

    My biggest problem with shepard’s pie actually has nothing to do with the food itself. My problem is that many people refer to the same dish made with beef as shepard’s pie. That is incorrect, the food of this type made with beef is called cottage pie. All I ask is that you get it right.

    Lamb is a much appreciated dish in my house. We don’t eat it a lot, but when I make it, it’s always something different and special. I enjoy the gaminess, I think it adds another layer to this dish without having to add anything. If you don’t enjoy that kind of gaminess, use beef instead. But remember, don’t call it shepard’s pie, call it cottage pie.

    I also want to make a quick clarification for those that keep kosher. If you’d like to make this, don’t add butter and milk to your mashed potatoes, you can use oil and non-dairy milk, or just skip the milk altogether (oh, and skip the cheese).

    You can find my recipe here.

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