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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The buffalo chicken sandwiches
I just signed up using the discount…thank you! I’d love to try the Acorn Squash Risotto, YUM!
The lemon catfish looks amazing! I love fish so much.
I’m trying to make other vegetarian dishes other than eggs, so I would love to try the Tuscan Ribollita Soup (which includes eggs :P)
I would love to try the Chicken and Drop Biscuit Casserole. Looks yummy and I know my kids would love it.
I would love to try the cacciatore baked eggs!
The spiced pork, squash, white bean soup sounds delicious!
Oooooh I want to try the sloppy joe’s or lamb/beef gyros! Yum, yum!
Lemon butter shrimp looks delicious!!
OMG. The Thai shrimp soup looks perfect for the wintery weather we’ve been having.
My mom has been trying to get me to check out Blue Apron. I had no idea all of the options available. First on my list would be the Italian Beef Grinders.
Buffalo chicken sammies look divine
The shrimp and pineapple fried rice sounds yummy and actually something I might try to re-create!
Yumm the spinach and ricotta looks amazing. Would have never thought to pair the two. This looks amazing!
Chicken meatballs and creamy polenta – this looks amazing and I’ve never made polenta. I’m not even sure how to make it!!
How do you pick just one? I think I’d love to try the Chicken Pad Kee Mao. I was just telling my boyfriend how I’d love to try Blue Apron to get new meal ideas, get us out of our meal rut!
The chicken and drop biscuit casserole looks so good – perfect for a cold winter night!
I think those steak tacos look delicious, but the seared salmon with apple mashed potatoes intrigued me!
Hoison roast pork or goat cheese & kale quiche! Both sound delicious!
You should definitely come for a visit to Australia 🙂
I’d love to learn to cook catfish! And learning new ways to cook vegetarian dinner options would be awesome!!
The apple and blue cheese panzenella salad looks amazing!
Oh my, how can I choose…. the buffalo chicken sandwiches would be first.
The Garganelli Pasta and Tomato Sauce looks amazing!
Definitely the chicken meatballs and creamy polenta!! YUM!
Oh my gosh! The goat cheese and kale quiche looks amazing!!!
Definitely the spinach and ricotta!
The goat cheese and kale quiche looks like such a hearty winter meal! Yum!
Oh yay! I’ve been wanting to try Blue Apron, especially now that Will and I are both working full time! So many things look so good! Maybe the Thai chicken meatballs?! 🙂
Everything looks so good, especially the quiches, but I think one that I desperately want to try now is the squash and spinach pizza!!!
The spinach and ricotta calzones, spicy orange chicken wings, and white turkey chili all look amazing. And there’s so many more that I want to try!
There are so many delicious looking recipes. The one I would pick is the North African Spiced Shrimp and Couscous. Thanks.
I have been wanting to try Blue Apron for awhile now! The Seared Salmon with Salsa Verde looks amazing, but I also want to try sweet potato and collard green hash!
I would love to try the broccolini and goat cheese polenta!
The Acorn Squash, Brussels Sprout & Farro Salad with Crispy Pepitas & Cranberry Agrodolce looks delicious! Thank you for the special offer as well!
I want to try the white Pizza!
I would love to try the Chicken and kale casserole!!
White pizza looks amazing!
Spicy orange chicken for the win 🙂
The chicken meatballs and creamy polenta look Ah-mazing!
White pizza!
The creamy lemon linguini looks great! Love how there’s no waste through Blue Apron since I’ve been guilty of not always using my full grocery haul. :/
Shrimp & pineapple fried rice! Yum!
I love so many of the recipes! It must be so fun to try to recreate some of your favorites. I love anything chicken and I like spicy food so the Spiced Chicken Pitas and Couscous sounds delicious.
The Beluga Lentil Stew & Squash Agrodolce looks healthy AND like great winter comfort food!
i would love to try the shrimp banh mi!
Spinach and ricotta calzones!
I LOVE the idea of blue apron. would really like to try the chicken meatball and creamy polenta.
Cacciatore-Style Baked Eggs
I’d love to try the Catfish Tacos & Coleslaw – they look delicious and we rarely make fish at home!
I would love the Korean pork ragu yum!!!