My Blue Apron

Last week I had an opportunity to try Blue Apron Recipe Meals delivery service. I read reviews about blue apron last year and didn't think this service would work for me because they are not vegan friendly but they do offer vegetarian recipe meals, so I thought I would give it a try.

This is what was delivered to me

They give you everything you need to make the meal (except olive oil) and  8x9" recipe cards with step by step instructions on the back of the cards.


I couldn't wait to get started cooking. My first meal, which was the barley soup in which I took a picture to compare to their photo. lol

The Barley soup was easy to make. My only complaint? They don't tell you to crush the whole spices that they've already included in the bag of Barley soup spice blend mixture. While I eating my soup I crunched on - fennel seeds, aleppo pepper and coriander seeds.  I'm on a vegan diet and couldn't use some of the ingredients they included for this particular recipe, for the instance the parmesan cheese and the cream fraiche. I did how-ever already have a vegan recipe for the cream fraiche and I always have on hand, vegan parmesan cheese.   This soup was plenty and enough to feed at least 5 people.

My next meal was the Stir Fried Rice Noodles, YUM!

I can honestly say that this recipe is vegan friendly! It was so delicious and my friends enjoyed it to! I've never had Gai Lan vegetable before which is included in this recipe. I had to google to find out what it was, only to find out it was just Chinese broccoli. I learn a few things about mixing different ingredients, I would never had thought about using together like, peanut butter with coconut milk which  the recipe called for in order to made a cream base to mix with the noodles. 

The last recipe I made last night was the Ramp & Snap Pea Fregola Sarda

Again there was a couple of food items I couldn't use for this recipe like the butter and parmesan cheese that blue apron included. I substituted some earth balance butter and vegan parmesan. This was an interesting dish, not one of my favorites but it wont go to waste. I found the fregola sarda pasta to be quite chewy.  I didn't care to add the walnuts to this dish that was included. The mint was a good choice for added flavor to this pasta dish, again, I would never thought to add such a combination. I had a lot leftover. This meal was enough to feed at least 4 people.

I wrote to Blue Apron last year, to request if they would create some vegan recipe meals for delivery services and they was kind enough to rely back stating that they will look into it in the near future.

I believe their meal plans are for two people, 3 meals per week $9.99 per person for a total of $59.94 and they have a family plan.

This recipe meal delivery service is good for those who like having their meals to cook delivered and it's good for those who are interested in expanding their cooking techniques in my opinion.

I hope this helps