Marley Spoon: Broiled Beef Stir Fry & Grilled Sausages & Baked Navy Beans + $30 Off

So to ease myself back into my writing routine, I thought I’d spend Monday in the kitchen with one of my Marley Spoon reviews. If you’d like to try it out this weekly meal subscription service 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.

Broiled Beef Stir Fry with Broccoli, Rice and Sweet Onion
Download the recipe here.
This looked easy and perfect for a weeknight.

Our usual fresh ingredients:

We start with cooking some rice and preheating the broiler.

A bit of ingredient prep and then we make our marinade with garlic, ginger, tamari, mirin, sesame oil and water.

We coat our meat and veggies and then add them to a baking sheet.

Now here’s where it gets tricky for me.  I’m supposed to broil this, but my oven is older than I am and can’t accommodate a full size cookie sheet.  You also can’t adjust the distance of the item you are broiler from the heat source.  I opted instead to roast it in the oven.  This of course, made it less brown, but I figured it shouldn’t impact the overall taste too much.
Our finished product:

Taste: Love!
I loved how easy this recipe was.  You used minimal dishes, and the prep was very straightforward and not time consuming.  It had a nice savory flavor and would work perfectly for a weeknight. I can see myself adding this into my regular dinner rotation.
Portion Size: Excellent
Good for Entertaining?: Probably not.  While this tasted great, it’s not as unique or fun as I’d normally go when entertaining.

 Grilled Sausages and Scallions with Baked Navy Beans
Download the recipe here.
I let my boyfriend choose the other dish from this order and this was his selection.

More fresh ingredients:

We start with prepping our ingredients.

We heat oil in a large ovenproof skillet and then add onion, garlic, salt and pepper.  We add honey and mustard, then beans and chicken broth.  The skillet gets transferred to the oven where it continues to bake.

We roast the sausages and scallions in a grill pan and then dress the kale to make a salad.

When all is said and done, this is our dish:

Taste: Not my favorite
I’m not a huge fan of beans, but I thought the mustard and honey added a nice flavor component.  This dinner wasn’t bad, but it just didn’t wow me.  I also thought the kale salad was an afterthought and didn’t really add much flavor to the dish.  The beans seems to take a bit longer to cook than the instructions listed, but the prep was easy and not half as involved as most Marley Spoon recipes.
Portion Size: Excellent with tons of beans
Good for Entertaining?: No.  Not interesting or flavorful enough.

OVERALL
Verdict: Like!
I loved the stir-fry recipe and feel like I got something new to add into my weeknight rotation. Even though the sausage dish wasn’t too exciting, it was easy to prepare and there weren’t any offensive flavors.  I’d love to see more recipes like the Beef & Broccoli – tasty, quick and don’t require you to clean eleventybillion pans.

Have you tried any food subscriptions?
If so which one, and what did you think?

THE BACKSTORY
Marley 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:
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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