{"id":1987,"date":"2019-03-11T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2019-03-11T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T09:03:01","slug":"meal-kit-hack-everyplate-garlic-rosemary-chicken-with-roasted-root-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2019\/03\/meal-kit-hack-everyplate-garlic-rosemary-chicken-with-roasted-root-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Meal Kit Hack: EveryPlate Garlic-Rosemary Chicken with Roasted Root Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rating 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was planning to make a chicken stew tonight, but my husband bought skinless, boneless chicken thighs instead of the chicken parts I’d asked him to get. So I was left with trying to figure out what to make for dinner with the ingredients I had at hand. I could have easily replicated a meal I’d made before, but I saw it as an opportunity to try something new. I looked through different meal kit company sites, but the only one that had a simple recipe I could make with the stuff I had at home was EveryPlate<\/a>. Perhaps I should have started with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This recipe for Garlic-Rosemary Chicken with Roasted Root Veggies<\/a> was uncomplicated, but I thought pretty good. My daughter, who didn’t want the rosemary-garlic topping found the chicken flavorless, but that’s to be expected. The rosemary-garlic topping was good, if not gourmet quality. I’m not sure I’d make this particular dish again, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used chicken thighs rather than the chicken breasts that the kit would have used, both because that’s what I had at home and because I much prefer them. I didn’t have a carrot, a sweet potato or Yukon gold potatoes, so I substituted with the two large russet potatoes I had at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made this meal for 3 people. EveryPlate does not have kits that feed three, but their kit for 2 would have cost $13 (including shipping). A kit for 3, if it existed, would have cost $18. I spent ~$7.50 making it for the three of us. Had I used a carrot and sweet potatoes, it might have cost a couple of dollars more. While I didn’t buy any ingredients to make this meal, I had bought some recently enough to qualify as not being in my pantry just waiting to be used.
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EveryPlate Ingredients<\/strong><\/td>My Ingredients<\/strong><\/td>Cost<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2 skinless boneless chicken breast fillets<\/td>6 skinless boneless chicken thigh fillets<\/td>$5.50<\/td><\/tr>
1 carrot<\/td>ommitted<\/td>–<\/td><\/tr>
2 sweet potatoes<\/td>ommitted<\/td>–<\/td><\/tr>
5 Yukon gold potatoes<\/td>2 Russet potatoes<\/td>$1<\/td><\/tr>
rosemary<\/td>rosemary<\/td>homegrown<\/td><\/tr>
1 red onion<\/td>1 red onion<\/td>$1<\/td><\/tr>
2 garlic cloves<\/td>4 garlic cloves<\/td>pantry<\/td><\/tr>
1 “unit” chicken stock concentrate<\/td>1\/2 tsp chicken stock concentrate<\/td>pantry<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

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Rating 7\/10 I was planning to make a chicken stew tonight, but my husband bought skinless, boneless chicken thighs instead of the chicken parts I’d asked him to get. So I was left with trying to figure out what to make for dinner with the ingredients I had at hand. I could have easily replicated […]<\/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":[327,431,396],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-kits","tag-boneless-chicken","tag-everyplate","tag-meal-kit-hacks","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","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=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}