52 New Recipes | two Dinnerly recipes
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So, this week, I'm doing something a little different for my new recipes.
If you saw my Instagram stories, you know I got sent a complimentary meal kit box that's kind of like Blue Apron, but half as expensive.
(I'll write a full review of it next week, but in case you want to check it out now, it's called Dinnerly, and it's $5/serving.)
The box came with three meals, and we've used two of them so far.
First, Sonia and Zoe made a spaghetti dish with meatballs made of sausage.
Using sausage for the meatballs was a nice change of pace! I've used browned sausage in a tomato sauce before, but never as proper meatballs.
My girls often make spaghetti on nights when they're fending for themselves, and now that they've learned how to make super simple meatballs, they can up their spaghetti game.
Last night I made their recipe for tacos with cabbage slaw, using the grass-fed beef in the box.
I do like cabbage slaw, but I think I like it better with fish tacos than with ground beef tacos. But it was still interesting to try.
The best part of the tacos was the smokey chili powder they included. I am totally going to look for that at the grocery store.
Sonia is not normally a fan of ground beef tacos, but she liked these, and I think it must be because of the chipotle powder. So, yay!
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Oh my goodness, this is so timely. The meal service I sometimes used locally just went out of business. Was literally going to poke around online today and see what else I could find. I'm going to try Dinnerly, thankee!
Yay! I'm so glad that the timing was fab for you.
This hasn't been a week for new recipes, per se, but a week to figure out how to make meals with only one burner at a time on the stove, because that's all our generator could handle. I couldn't use the microwave at all. Thanks, Irma! However, with no damage at our house and only a few houses in our small town with trees on them, I'm not going to complain. Our power came back on this (Thursday) morning after being out since Sunday night, so maybe I'll try something new tomorrow.
One thing I tried this week is "new" in a way. We grilled burgers and had leftovers. We don't like leftover hamburgers, but I wasn't going to waste them, so I crumbled them up and made chili with them on one burner, voila. It wasn't quite as good as regular chili, but it actually was pretty good.
I'm so glad to hear that you and your house is ok. And that you have power now too...wonderful!
I am making my new recipe tonight. A chicken breast zucchini sweet potato casserole. This is what I have so I googled for a recipe. It will probably be a miss because things like this usually are for me, but we'll all be fed, I can make it ahead, I don't have to go to the store!
Happy to report it turned out pretty good! Will make again with a few tweaks.
Yay! Such a good feeling.
Love the Topsail Island shirt!!! The best beach for families.
Yum! That looks really good. I'm glad that you have your daughters help out in the kitchen. I can't wait until my son grows up so that he can help me cook too (hopefully!).
I haven't tried any new recipes since we pretty much eat the same thing at our house. However, Mr. FAF bought some crab from Cosco, so we might try to steam that. ^.^
Checked out Dinnerly and it says they don't deliver to my area, which is odd since I'm in the same zip code as you. 🙁 I was curious as to what kind of choices they give and how flexible they are. Looks like I'll have to wait a while.
Yep, same story for me! I'm not QUITE in their area yet. I'm pretty sure they'll expand as time goes on, though, given that they've already done lots of expansion since their launch.
This week we cooked bibimbap, which is a tasty Korean dish. It's seasoned beef with rice, kimchi, cucumber, carrots, green onions, and a fried egg on top.
The best part is having Zoe and Sonia involved. It's hard to have picky eaters when they are the ones cooking! We had (twice) a ratatouille-type stew that we made in a hurry with the generous neighbor's over abundance of garden veggies. OMGosh, fresh eggplant is AWESOME.
I can make a quick meal for my family for less than $5 a person BUT I can see how this service might be fantastic for someone who for some reason can't easily go grocery shopping - ex. A mom with little ones whose husband works long hours in the winter; a caregiver of a very ill loved one. Glad these services are lowering their prices ...
I'm trying a barbecue chicken slider recipe tonight.
I wonder how you fell about the packaging waste from your delivery service. I ordered my parents one of those services for a month. ( They live in another state. They couldn't get to the store for health reasons.). Oh my word, when I went to visit/help them, I found the boxes, cooler packs, and plastic bags filled up half of their garage!
This service is a little different...fewer ingredients, which means less packaging. I took pictures of it all, and I'll tell you about all the nitty gritty next week!
Excellent point. Everything about this seems wasteful of time and money and resources. But, its OK to try new things, I guess.
I recently found an ATK periodical that is entirely one pot meals. My goal is to try 1-2 per week, and this week we tried pork coated in hoisin sauce with green beans and potatoes. So simple to make, tasted lovely, and clean up was a breeze!
Mexican slaw on tacos is my favorite. Such a satisfyingly fresh crunch to balance all the heavy other stuff.
It's not really a recipe, but I've been very much enjoying at least some parts of a British fry-up for breakfast lately. My understanding is that this involves bacon, fried eggs, tomato, baked beans, and fried bread. Usually I just have the eggs and tomato fried in bacon grease (I always have bacon grease, even if I don't have the actual bacon at the time), often the baked beans. Sometimes the bacon too. So good all together. I would be all about the fried bread if I could get away with it without having to report some unfortunate blood glucose levels. Stupid gestational diabetes.
Usually includes sautéed mushrooms, too.
Do they (you) traditionally drink tea with it or something else?
Goodmorning Kristen,
This week I made two, new to me, recipes. The first one was a wonderful meatloaf (it really was, so delicious) and the second one was Chorizo and Apple savoury rolls, they were the bomb! Sorta the same principle as using the sausage meat as meat balls, but you skin and then blitz the chorizo meat to make the filling for the puff pastry rolls. So simple and yummy. I tried a meal box a little while ago, just to see what it was like and also I had a discount voucher. I found it great quality but way too expensive if I were to buy it at full price week after week. It was fun for a trial though. Have a lovely day.
Fi
I use Ancho Chile Powder when I make Chipotle at home. https://www.culinaryhill.com/homemade-ancho-chile-powder/ Not sure if that is what you are talking about, but it is good!
Here is the Chipotle Chicken knockoff recipe: https://www.browneyedbaker.com/chipotle-chicken-recipe/
And the rice here: https://www.culinaryhill.com/chipotle-cilantro-lime-rice/
This by far the best new thing I have made this year!
For herbs, spices, and flavorings, I can't recommend Penzey's highly enough. These days they're running a lot of deals - buy *this* at a discount, get credit toward anything else. (The company is trying to promote civility and hope; their deal to buy spices for hurricane survivors was amazing.) Their spices mixes are Da Bomb. I think I could live off Brady Cheese Sprinkle.
Two new recipes this week: CI's Garlic Bread, using an Italian bread recipe from Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads. Both came out AMAZING. That's some seriously garlicky Garlic Bread. For a 1 lb loaf, it uses 1 stick of butter, 1 T. garlic powder (Penzey's, natch), 1 T. crushed garlic, salt and cayenne. The roommate and I ate half a loaf for dinner.
FG: if you ever want more bread recipes, I recommend Bernard Clayton over James Beard any day. Clayton and KAF are the only ones I use any more.
The bread was really good, too. It came out soft, chewy, a little tangy, and a distinct but not-too-crusty crust. Perfect for the garlic bread. Definitely worth the effort to make and an ideal complement for the garlic spread. NB: the 4 lb recipe was too much for my 14 c. Cuisinart food processor. I had to finish the kneading by hand. Still worth it.
I'll have to check Penzey's out. Do you feel like even basics like garlic powder are better?
I just love Pennzey's. Get the cinnamon, then do a sniff test between the Pennzey's brand and the one you already have. But (always a but) Pennzey's is more expensive. It's easy to get carried away in the store, but I think it's worth buying as long as you keep it to just a few spices/herbs.Plus, there is always a really good promotion going on, so you can sample a few new things for free.
Maybe I should learn to spell Penzey's LOL.
Funny you should mention garlic powder - Penzey's is the only garlic powder I will buy. Every other one I've tried (or even smelled) had little to no flavor.
I'm trying to think of spices that I would buy from someone else. It's not a long list: vanilla, any herb that I want to dry myself, salts, paprika; I limit the number of spice mixes I get because it's easy to go overboard. They also have many different spice mixes, including a large number of salt-free ones.
As Kathy says, you pay for the quality. You can decrease the cost by taking advantage of the deals they've been running, buying in bulk (I put some in jars on my counter, the rest I store in the freezer), and buying in bags rather than glass jars.
Get to a store for your first purchase, if you can. There stores are staffed by friendly, knowledgable staff and they have many spices and mixes out for sniff or taste.
Ok. now I'm gonna have to google and see how far I have to go for a store!
Just discovered a Penzeys close by. So friendly, always a freebie, always worth it for the quality. My favorite is Garam Marsala for chicken tikka masala. Yum.