{"id":1893,"date":"2019-02-10T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2020-10-29T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:34:45","slug":"meal-kit-review-plateds-seared-steak-with-blue-cheese-butter-and-spinach-beet-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2019\/02\/meal-kit-review-plateds-seared-steak-with-blue-cheese-butter-and-spinach-beet-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Review: Plated’s Seared Steak with Blue Cheese Butter and Spinach-Beet Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rating 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After writing a whole post reviewing this Plated<\/a> meal kit for Seared Steak with Blue Cheese Butter and Spinach-Beet Salad<\/a>, I realized that I had started a review the very night I made it. So I’m incorporating what I wrote then here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am impossibly backed up with all the meal kit reviews I need to review, but I can’t help but start with the one I made tonight: Plated<\/a>‘s Seared Steak with Blue Cheese Butter and Spinach-Beet Salad<\/a>. It was absolutely delicious – and a very quick recipe to make to boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m amazed at the simplicity of it:  fresh baby spinach tossed with olive oil and salt and topped with beef sirloin slices, toasted pecans, blue cheese butter (a mixture of just blue cheese and butter) and a packet of balsamic glaze.  There were also supposed to be seared sliced beets, but no one in my family likes beets so I skipped them (I’m thinking of using them to make an amuse bouche for my Christmas Eve dinner).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all the flavors together – including the juice from the beef – were just magical.  They worked to contrast and compliment each other.  I definitely have to make this myself, though that means making my own balsamic glaze, which is easy, but time consuming.  If I find commercial balsamic glaze, I may even make this very simple salad for Xmas Even dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meal wasn’t perfect, however.  While most of the spinach was nice and crispy, some of the leaves had started to wilt.  Given that I only received my box yesterday, I’m not sure the spinach would have survived if I’d taken longer to make this kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another problem was that the two steaks were terribly different in thickness – one was twice as think as the other, which made cooking them at the same time difficult.  This is not the first time I’ve encountered this problem and I wish meal kit companies would be better at this.  The beef, however, was very good quality and very tasty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I don’t think the portion was large enough for an adult.  Perhaps it would have been if I had included the beets, but I’ve found that many of the meal kits that don’t include a carb leave me hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I paid $8 for this kit for 2 people, using a $40-off Black Friday promo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rating 9\/10 After writing a whole post reviewing this Plated meal kit for Seared Steak with Blue Cheese Butter and Spinach-Beet Salad, I realized that I had started a review the very night I made it. So I’m incorporating what I wrote then here: I am impossibly backed up with all the meal kit reviews I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,11],"tags":[389,93],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","category-recipes","tag-plated","tag-steak","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}