For more than two years now, Ryan and I have been regular customers of Blue Apron, a meal delivery service that ships all the farm-fresh ingredients you need to make chef-designed recipes right to your doorstep. After discovering Blue Apron during a trip to visit one of my best friends in New York City, I came home raving about it, which inspired Ryan to give me a month of Blue Apron meals for Christmas one year. Ever since then, we’ve been hooked and I’m looking forward to partnering with the service again in 2016 to share some tasty giveaways and recipe highlights with you guys again!
(Someone apparently wanted to browse our latest Blue Apron menus for himself…)
Our most recent shipment included everything we needed to make a fresh salmon dish, a healthy one-skillet cacciatore-style recipe and a buffalo chicken sandwich that left both of us wowed!
Before our meals were shipped, I checked the Blue Apron website and swapped some recipes in and out to customize the meals we wanted to try. Ryan and I almost always include at least one vegetarian dish in our orders (we’ll often do all vegetarian and tend to love these dishes most) but this time I opted to include both a fish and poultry recipe in our box. (We ordered the two-person plan but there are family plans available.)
The recipe I was actually least excited to try – the Buffalo Chicken Sandwich – was actually my favorite of the bunch and easily rivaled the best buffalo chicken sandwiches I’ve had at any restaurant.
As always, I followed the picture tutorial recipe cards that come with every Blue Apron shipment and had no trouble following all of the steps.
The recipe cards also often give tips and tricks to make meal preparation easier and I’ve picked up a ton of great “cooking hacks” along the way. (Example: Peel fresh ginger with a spoon. It works so well and you don’t waste nearly as much ginger as you do when you try to peel it with a knife.)
His and hers buffalo chicken sandwiches… Served with a baby monitor on the side.
Ryan and I have used Blue Apron boxes to create a fun “at home date night” experience and now that we have a baby and our desire to go out for dinner is at an all-time low, these meals have truly helped us feel like we’re enjoying something special together from the comfort of our own kitchen.
We used the Seared Salmon and Salsa Verde recipe for a weeknight date night of sorts and prepared it together after Chase went to sleep.
It was fantastic and the salsa verde was easily the best part of the dish. I’ve already remade the salsa verde (a combination of mashed garlic, almonds, capers and parsley) a handful of times and used it on everything from baked chicken to tuna.
Unfortunately the photos from the Cacciatore Style Baked Eggs recipe didn’t turn out so well but it was definitely one of the healthiest (and easiest!) recipes we’ve received from Blue Apron to date!
It was packed with vegetables and the parmesan garlic toasts we served on the side were incredible. (I actually added an extra egg to our recipe because Ryan and I both love dippy eggs!)
Blue Apron Free Meal Offer + Giveaway
If you’d like to give Blue Apron a try for free, here is your chance!
Blue Apron is offering the first 100 PBF readers who purchase a Blue Apron box two free meals! To redeem this offer, please click here and you’ll be all set.
One PBF reader will also win a week of free Blue Apron meals for two. Woop! Simply check out the Blue Apron recipe page and leave a comment on this post telling me about one recipe you’re dying to try.
A winner will randomly be selected next Friday.
Good luck and happy cooking!
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Disclaimer: This blog post is sponsored by Blue Apron. I hope you enjoy the giveaway and sincerely thank you for your support surrounding sponsored posts.
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I’d love to try the steak tacos!
I would love to try the Italian beef grinders! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
ErinLoves2Run at gmail dot com
There are so many good recipes I would love to try but the Creamy Fontina & Spinach Baked Eggs sounds so delicious. It’s different and a combination I wouldn’t expect but would love to try!
The Spinach & Ricotta Calzones and Salmon & Lemon Bucatini would be so fun to make at home for stay-in date night!
Oh those calzones look so yummy!!
The lemon catfish looks great. Thanks!
Spinach & Ricotta Calzones!!! YUM!!!
The Meyer-Lemon Glazed Catfish looks good but so does the Shiitake Mushroom & Cabbage Dumplings–mmm!
The Spinach & Ricotta Calzones look yummy!
I’d love to try the Italian beef grinders! YUM!
Italian Beef Grinders look good to try for upcoming SB game.
We have been trying to include more vegetarian meals in our weekly meal plan, so the spinach and ricotta calzones look delicious!
My fiancé has lets say a selective palate. I think the Italian Beef Grinders sound delicious and something we’d both like.
I’m excited to try goat cheese and kale quiche!
We have been dying to try blue apron! I have a new baby boy as well, so meal planning is key. I would love to try so many things on the menu. The chicken and kale casserole look amazing and so does the spiced pork and winter hash. Yum!!
I’ve been having a serious seafood craving so the Shrimp & Pineapple fried rice & the Lemon Butter Shrimp are calling my name. Yum!
The Spinach and Ricotta Calzones sound delicious and indulgent.
Hoisin roasted pork with peanut noodles sounds delish and something out of my realm!
Both the catfish and calzones made me hungry!
It’s hard to choose, there are a lot of good choices but the seared chicken and roasted acorn squash looks delish!
Steak tacos!
Oh those calzones!!!
I’m dying to try those spinach and ricotta calzones! Looks delicious!
Squash & Spinach Pizza or the Spinach & Ricotta Calzones!!
I would definitely want to try the buffalo chicken sandwiches or the spicy orange chicken wings!
I’d love to try the seared salmon!
I would LOVE to try that salmon recipe. For my non-fish eating husband I would also do the buffalo chicken sandwiches! Looks delish and have been dying to try blue apron!!
Desire to prove this spinach. You left me with water in the mouth hahaha.
I would love take the baked eggs recipe. It looks so good I want to attempt purchase the ingredients myself and make it!
I would like to try the salmon! The salsa look yum 🙂
Your egg dish sounds yummy, but on their website, I was drawn to the Dukkah-spiced salmon.
The spinach and ricotta calzones look great.
This would be amazing! The Garganelli Pasta & Tomato Sauce with Fresh Mozzarella & Arugula would be a hit in my house!
I’d like to try the Spinach ,Parmesan, and Parsnip Risotto – I’ll bet my spousal unit would actually eat spinach in that form. There are a lot of dishes I could probably get him to try from their recipe list – a great way to expand the fairly minimalist “willing to eat that” range of foods I have to work with. Thanks for the chance to win.
Quiche, pot pie, polenta! All things I’ve wanted to try, just never got around to.
I’ve been meaning to try Blue Apron for a while and always get inspired to sign up when I read your posts! Those catfish tacos sound delicious and exciting!
Beet and Barley Risotto sounds soo good. Especially on a cold winter night!
I would love to try the steak tacos with mole verde! I love mole. 🙂
I would most want to try the Manhattan-Style Fish Chowder! It sounds DELICIOUS! 🙂
I would love to try the Chicken Meatballs & Creamy Polenta!!! I fell in love with polenta over the summer and can’t get enough of it!
I would love to try the shrimp banh mi!
Thai chicken meatballs sound amazing! I’ve been on a major Asian kick lately!
that seared salmon and salse verde looks so good! Salsa verde is one of my faves!
The Chicken and Sage Biscuit Pot Pie looks amazing!
I’d love to make the Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches!
So many meals look amazing! I would love to try the salmon and salsa verde!
I want to try the spinach and tomato quiche
The salmon and salsa verde looks killer!
Such a neat giveaway! I would love to try the Tuscan Ribollita soup!
The Acorn Squash, Brussels Sprout & Farro Salad!