So, I get this box delivered to my front door from Blue Apron. It's not mine; the guy screwed up the address and dumped it on my porch. I know the lady, so I march down there a little after 5:00 when I know she'll be home. She smile and invites me in. Offers me beer and begins to open the package. It's a calzone dinner for 4. She's single and asks me if I would like to join her for dinner. I spammed as I have steaks I was going to grill. She doesn't take know for an answer. I tell her that we can use my kitchen, my kamados, and we pack up everything and march down to my house.
The box is very well insulated, all the ingredients are well packed and present, and so we dive right in. I've never seen this service before, so I'm intrigued.
Here are the instruction sheets, front and back:
I'm impressed. These sheets are laminated and written in clear and concise language complete with pictures so that even I can't screw it up.
Here are the ingredients packed in the box. All ingredients were fresh and of really good quality.
My part of the deal was to just cook the calzones on TheBeast. We also deviated from the instructions by doing bacon wrapped asparagus on Beauty!
Here are the calzones already on TheBeast. He was rocking right along at 475. I will say that the dough was hard to work with and get in any kind of shape for calzones. So, I just winged it and it was the best I could do.
Here are the calzones right before I pulled them after 15 minutes.
And the Money Shot.
Finally, here is a shot of the calzone ready for dipping and eating.
Total time from "CC, start your Komodo Kamado" to "That's all folks!" was about 90 minutes.
So this was my very first experience with Blue Apron. It was really nice having everything sourced for you and at your fingertips. The quality of the food was quite good and I enjoyed everything about this meal. The only down side was the dough. Trying to shape the dough was quite frustrating, but as you can see, we got the job done. All In all, if I weren't wrapped around the axle with my KKs, this is a service I just might subscribe to.
Thanks for looking.
The box is very well insulated, all the ingredients are well packed and present, and so we dive right in. I've never seen this service before, so I'm intrigued.
Here are the instruction sheets, front and back:
I'm impressed. These sheets are laminated and written in clear and concise language complete with pictures so that even I can't screw it up.
Here are the ingredients packed in the box. All ingredients were fresh and of really good quality.
My part of the deal was to just cook the calzones on TheBeast. We also deviated from the instructions by doing bacon wrapped asparagus on Beauty!
Here are the calzones already on TheBeast. He was rocking right along at 475. I will say that the dough was hard to work with and get in any kind of shape for calzones. So, I just winged it and it was the best I could do.
Here are the calzones right before I pulled them after 15 minutes.
And the Money Shot.
Finally, here is a shot of the calzone ready for dipping and eating.
Total time from "CC, start your Komodo Kamado" to "That's all folks!" was about 90 minutes.
So this was my very first experience with Blue Apron. It was really nice having everything sourced for you and at your fingertips. The quality of the food was quite good and I enjoyed everything about this meal. The only down side was the dough. Trying to shape the dough was quite frustrating, but as you can see, we got the job done. All In all, if I weren't wrapped around the axle with my KKs, this is a service I just might subscribe to.
Thanks for looking.
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