{"id":1742,"date":"2018-10-21T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2018-12-08T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:06:32","slug":"meal-kit-review-hellofresh-saucy-thyme-steak-with-sweet-potatoes-and-green-beans-amandine-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2018\/10\/meal-kit-review-hellofresh-saucy-thyme-steak-with-sweet-potatoes-and-green-beans-amandine-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Review: HelloFresh Saucy Thyme Steak with Sweet Potatoes and Green Beans Amandine + Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rating: 9\/10<\/h3>\n

I, obviously, need a new camera – or something better than my I-pad, which always takes blurry pictures.\u00a0 But I think even my out-of-focus picture of my thrown together\u00a0Saucy Thyme Steak with Sweet Potatoes and Green Beans Amandine<\/a>\u00a0is more appealing than HelloFresh<\/a>‘s:<\/p>\n

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This, indeed, is one of the problem with HelloFresh: their photos don’t make the food appear particularly enticing. To be honest, neither does the description of the dishes.\u00a0 Most of them sound totally boring – and yet everything I’ve had from them (albeit, it was just four meal kits) has tasted good, if not great.<\/p>\n

And this recipe has probably been the best of the bunch.\u00a0 The “ranch” steak was good in itself, but the pan sauce was amazing – it made me a convert to demi-glace.\u00a0 I’m not the biggest fan of sweet potatoes, but I liked them served in this manner and they were perfectly cooked (per the instructions), and not at all chalky, as they can get.\u00a0 The combination with abundant thyme was also great.<\/p>\n

And the green beans weren’t too shabby either. All in all, this meal was of the quality you’d expect at a nice restaurant (one in which they serve boring side dishes, as they do in my town).\u00a0 Most amazingly, it wasn’t even part of HelloFresh’ “gourmet” offerings, so it was regular price ($22 to $24, depending on your plan).<\/p>\n

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All the ingredients in the kit arrived in good condition. I was a little surprised at just how much thyme there was, but it was all used.The recipe didn’t call for peeling the sweet potatoes, but I did anyway.\u00a0 The only real issue is that one of the steaks was significantly thinner than the other, so it required less cooking.<\/p>\n

The portions were good and we actually had leftover sweet potatoes\/beans.<\/p>\n

Making the meal was pretty straightforward, and the only thing I had to watch for was cooking each steak for a different amount of time given their relative thickness.<\/p>\n

In all, if you have HelloFresh, I’d recommend this meal.\u00a0 And if not, I’d recommend making it with your own ingredients.\u00a0 You can sign up for HelloFresh using my referral link<\/a> and get $40 off your first week, which is a very good deal.<\/p>\n

Au Jus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Make this recipe on the pan where you’ve pan-grilled or broiled steak,with the pan juices are your base.<\/p>\n