Blue Apron or Home Chef!!

Have you ever cooked a REALLY DELICIOUS meal that you were so proud for your family to eat?  Like, where you waited for them to taste it and just SHOWER you in praise?  Blue Apron and Home Chef have allowed me to do that!!  Plus you get to try new recipes, new ingredients, without puzzling over how to make them.

I mean, I know how to cook chicken.  I have made chicken for dinner about 800 times in the 8 years since we got married.  But this chicken!  It was better than any chicken I had ever made!  Because they gave me instructions on how exactly to cook it.  And it was fully cooked without me wondering if it was done.  And it was juicy!  And it had flavor!  Plus you get to keep the recipes.  BONUS!

Now I am sure there are myriad companies who do this.  I really love the concept, and I have loved the outcome of these meals.  Here are a few pics from the meals I have made.  Yum!  I feel like a professional.  Just call me Chef Jodie!  Today we made filets with Gouda potato gratin, and fresh green beans.  You see my point? Wow!

This one is from Home Chef.  It is roasted carrots with blue cheese crusted pork chop.  YUM.

Here's another delicious one from Home Chef.  Steak with blue cheese compound butter.  So good!

Last fall we did Blue Apron for a while, and the food was really good.  However, I have a picky husband and a four and six year old to make happy.  The food was just a bit too "foodie" for them.  I loved it, but we have decided that Home Chef works better for our family.  Here are some blue apron example pics.  The caramelized onions on chicken was amazing!

So.  If you like to cook, but like me you have cooked chicken 800 times over the last 8 years, I highly recommend checking out something like Home Chef or Blue Apron!  Change things up and be AMAZING!  Who needs a restaurant when you can be the Chef?!