Blue Apron: The $20 mashed potatoes
Swedish Meatballs & Braised Kale
with Lingonberry Jam & Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Recipe here.
Time: 20-25 minutes (I left the kitchen for a few minutes in the middle of things)
Almost as if Blue Apron could go back in time and react to me canceling their service, this meal was a disaster.
1) The flour was missing.
2) The container of lingonberry jam came open in the bag and made a mess.
3) The pork had gone bad.
I had been looking forward to this meal for a while. I wanted to try making meatballs, I like Swedish Meatballs, and this looked like one of the simpler things to make -- only three things to chop up!
I got the potatoes going, no problem. Then I opened the pork. It smelled off. At first I didn't trust my nose, so I continued on with the recipe. But the longer I smelled it, the more sure I was that something was wrong with it. I wish I had trusted myself off the bat, since then I could have saved the spices and breadcrumbs and tried again some other time with my own meat.
I didn't bother trying to make the kale, becasue without the meatballs there was no meal, and kale isn't a new food for me to try.
$60 for three meals = $20 per meal = I paid $20 for two small potatoes, a pat of butter, and a splash of milk. Go team me. The mashed potatoes were good, but not $20 good, plus that's a lot of potato for one person.
I don't want to tell them about it and try to get my money back, since they'd likely think I was doing it just because I canceled and was trying to get more out of them. My time with them is done, I don't want to continue to deal with them.
with Lingonberry Jam & Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Recipe here.
Time: 20-25 minutes (I left the kitchen for a few minutes in the middle of things)
Almost as if Blue Apron could go back in time and react to me canceling their service, this meal was a disaster.
1) The flour was missing.
2) The container of lingonberry jam came open in the bag and made a mess.
3) The pork had gone bad.
I had been looking forward to this meal for a while. I wanted to try making meatballs, I like Swedish Meatballs, and this looked like one of the simpler things to make -- only three things to chop up!
I got the potatoes going, no problem. Then I opened the pork. It smelled off. At first I didn't trust my nose, so I continued on with the recipe. But the longer I smelled it, the more sure I was that something was wrong with it. I wish I had trusted myself off the bat, since then I could have saved the spices and breadcrumbs and tried again some other time with my own meat.
I didn't bother trying to make the kale, becasue without the meatballs there was no meal, and kale isn't a new food for me to try.
$60 for three meals = $20 per meal = I paid $20 for two small potatoes, a pat of butter, and a splash of milk. Go team me. The mashed potatoes were good, but not $20 good, plus that's a lot of potato for one person.
I don't want to tell them about it and try to get my money back, since they'd likely think I was doing it just because I canceled and was trying to get more out of them. My time with them is done, I don't want to continue to deal with them.