{"id":1762,"date":"2018-10-27T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2018-12-08T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:01:55","slug":"meal-kit-review-sun-baskets-steak-and-roasted-sweet-potato-with-scallion-ginger-relish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2018\/10\/meal-kit-review-sun-baskets-steak-and-roasted-sweet-potato-with-scallion-ginger-relish\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Review: Sun Basket’s Steak and roasted sweet potato with scallion-ginger relish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rating: 6\/10<\/h3>\n

A sauce or a topping can either enhance or ruin a steak.\u00a0 Last week, I made a HelloFresh kit that had steak with an amazing thyme-demi-glace sauce<\/a> that greatly improved the meat.\u00a0 The relish in this\u00a0kit for steak and roasted sweet potato with scallion-ginger relish<\/a>\u00a0did the opposite, it hid the flavor of the meat and just made it taste vinegary.<\/p>\n

There were other problems as well.\u00a0 The oven-baked sweet potato fries (which I overcooked) were pretty boring – again, I preferred the HelloFresh version<\/a> which adds thyme.\u00a0 \u00a0This was my first time eating kale and I found it surprisingly edible.\u00a0 It stayed crisp even after cooking for a couple of minutes and I liked the subtle garlic flavor.\u00a0 Not a bad way of eating your veggies.<\/p>\n

Sun Basket advertises that you may get organic filet mignon, organic rib eye or top sirloin in this kit.\u00a0 Of course, I got the cheaper top sirloin – which weren’t even organic, sort of defeating the whole point of this subscription.\u00a0 While the steaks were pretty small, ~5 oz each, the whole meal was the right size portion for dinner.\u00a0 Still, I was not happy that one steak was far thinner than the other.\u00a0 In this case it wasn’t too big a deal, as my daughter likes her beef well done and I like it medium rare, but it would have been a pain if I was cooking for two people who like their meat with the same doneness.<\/p>\n

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All the ingredients in the meat were fresh and remained so even a couple of days after I got it.\u00a0 The produce was organic even if the beef was not.\u00a0 \u00a0It was relatively easy and quick to put this meal together.\u00a0 \u00a0But then again, it would have been relatively easy and quick to shop for it as well, specially given that the relish was totally unnecessary.\u00a0 This is one meal for which you don’t need to have a kit.<\/p>\n

I paid $11 for this kit using a discount<\/a>, and it was definitely fine for that, but it would be overpriced at $24.<\/p>\n

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Rating: 6\/10 A sauce or a topping can either enhance or ruin a steak.\u00a0 Last week, I made a HelloFresh kit that had steak with an amazing thyme-demi-glace sauce that greatly improved the meat.\u00a0 The relish in this\u00a0kit for steak and roasted sweet potato with scallion-ginger relish\u00a0did the opposite, it hid the flavor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[28,398],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","tag-reviews","tag-sun-basket","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}