Blue Apron: our in-home date night

A few months ago we kindly received a free trial week of Blue Apron, a convenient food delivery service that sends 3 meal ingredients for you to prepare at home.  What we loved most about the meals is it gave us a chance to cook with and eat ingredients we would never purchase at the store (I'm talking to you fennel).  Last night we gave Blue Apron another go of it and made the Thai Chicken Burger meal.  I love how this service can turn into a stay at home date night cooking class and you get 3 two person meals for 60 dollars...and....as I mentioned the priceless gift of no grocery shopping!  In the end, we came away with a delicious, "home made" meal, and to boot, we learned how to make something new.  Winners all around in this house.  If you want to look into Blue Apron for yourself click on over here.  Check it out:

Each individual ingredient arrives labeled along with the step by step directions, including pictures on how to do each step. 

 

After dicing and mixing all the ingredients to form the two chicken patties, we were all set for the stove top!

 

Just waiting on that chicken patty to be done!  These ingredients came in their whole form and we chopped them up to garnish the chicken burgers.  

 

The scene of the crime!  I can say that we made a bit of a mess with this meal.

 

Our Thai Chicken Burger before I devoured it.  For the record, it was delicious.  We both decided it tasted like something Chick Fil A would make if they added an Asian inspired chicken sandwich. 

Per usual our Sous-Chef was on hand to "help" with all the cooking. We think she may have helped a bit too much since she woke up with a rough tummy.

 

Most importantly, we are proudly flying the Black and Gold with the start of football season and happily excited to know the Deacs are 1-0 after the first week.  We shall relish that for as long as we can.