Marley Spoon: Teriyaki Chicken Wings & Short Rib Chili Plus $30 Coupon Code

Today we have another episode of Mondays with Marley, where I attempt to become a food blogger. Marley Spoon, is a weekly food subscription service and if you’d like to give it a try for yourself, use the coupon code COOKSMART for $30 off.

My meal plan is for a weekly delivery of 2 meals (2 portions each), which costs $48.

Marley Spoon was nice enough to send me free chocolate for Valentine’s Day! Why does food always taste better when it’s free?

Short Rib Chili and Chips with Red Onion and Sour Cream
I chose this because I’d been craving chili and I’d never made one using short rib before. The recipe also looked like it didn’t take too much time (or too many pots).

Our usual fresh ingredients:

We do some chopping:

We cook the meat, then add the beans, and then the liquids.

They simmer.
We have reserved red onions, sour cream and chips for toppings.

And then you have this:

Taste: Hit!
This had great flavor even though it only simmered for a small amount of time. Since I hate cumin, I omitted that ingredient and the chili still tasted great. The recipe didn’t require too much fuss or for me to do a ton of dishes. This one was definitely a winner.
Portion Size: Generous
Good for Entertaining?: Yes, for a casual kind of game day get together. I’d swap out the chips for shredded cheese, and instead turn the chips into an appetizer with some spinach dip. For a side with the chili, I’d make some cornbread and a fresh green salad. Dessert would be some walnut brownies. Drinks would be beer and hard cider (since I personally, am not a beer aficionado).

Teriyaki Chicken Wings and Wedge Salad
I chose this because who can say no to chicken wings?
More fresh ingredients:

These wings require quite a bit of cooking.
First you roast them in the oven and while they cook you prepare the glaze.


Then you mix them up with the glaze and roast them again.

The side dish is a wedge salad that has a simple dressing and is topped with scallions.

When we are done, we have a ginormous amount of lettuce along with our chicken wings.

Taste: Like
Portion Size: Generous
The flavors on this dish were great. The glaze and salad dressing were tasty, but my issue is with the wedge salad. To quote my boyfriend, “How do you eat this?” The head of lettuce was huge and it was so awkward to eat. Just converting the “wedge salad” into a chopped salad would have improved this dish incredibly. I ended up doing just that and eating it as a side for a couple of meals.
Good for Entertaining?: The wings as an appetizer rather than a meal. I would gladly serve a chopped version of the salad as a side to a different menu.

OVERALL
Verdict: Hit!
Even though the wedge salad was a bit impractical, the flavors on both meals were great and the portions were quite ample. Both recipes were straightforward and didn’t require tons of prep or a million pots and pans. I’d really love to see more recipes like the chili that pretty much all happen in one pot.

Have you ever tried a fresh meal subscription service? If so, what did you think?

THE BACKSTORY
Marley’s Spoon creates delicious, easy to follow recipes.
They deliver fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and you select your recipes from their changing weekly menu.

They are dedicated to sourcing organic and sustainable whenever possible. Building relationships with environmentally aware farms and producers ensures that the highest quality ingredients arrive at your door each week.

Using trusted delivery partners, your Marley Spoon boxes come insulated and chilled, staying cool for 30 hours! After delivery, all the ingredients are guaranteed to stay fresh for up to 4 days – allowing you to decide when to cook.

Marley’s Spoon donates any leftover ingredients to City Harvest. City Harvest exists to end hunger in communities throughout New York City through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Each week you’ll automatically receive great dishes, but as a flexible subscription, you can skip a week or pause your subscription anytime. You can also change delivery frequency, recipes, and the number of portions you’d like to receive.

Marley’ Spoon delivers to the mid Atlantic and New England regions: most of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.

Monthly Cost:
Varies by number of servings and number of meals.
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COUPON CODE: COOKSMART

Author: Writer Preziosi

Once upon a time, long, long ago, Lisa attended Syracuse University where she studied singing in a giant castle surrounded by ice and snow. After she earned her music degree, she headed to the island of Manhattan, down to the West Village, to a place called the New School. There, she earned another degree in the great art of writing stories for children. She currently works on that same island trying to help real people, while making up stories about imaginary ones. Her first book, “The Ice Maiden’s Tale,” a fairy tale adventure, was released on May 30, 2017 and is up for sale on Amazon. View all posts by Writer Preziosi