Review Wednesday - HelloFresh (Week 23)

Again this week we have five recipes again! And as I said last week, we have another Hamburger recipe that we substituted the meat out of. We used this ground beef to make Spaghetti or Meat Macaroni, things like that. It has really been handy during this pandemic when meat was hard to find. This week we had Pan-Seared Steak au Jus with Warm Potato and Green Pea Salad, Savoury Mushroom Tacos with Creamy Kale Slaw, Honey-Garlic Chicken Tenders with Potatoes and Green Beans, Pizza Burger with Parmesan Fries and Marinara Ketchup (with the meat substituted), and Maple-Mustard Pork Chops with Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potato.

We started with the Pan-Seared Steak. Now usually we cook our steaks on the grill or in the oven, but if you plan on making the au Jus it is best to do it in the pan. With that being said today I made the au Jus in the pan without making the steak in it and it turned out just as good. (Yes it actually turned out this time!) Also a quick note about the potato salad, we have made this one before a few times, this time they sent regular peas instead of the sugar snap peas. They do this when they find the original item isn't up to their freshness standards. And frankly, I am glad they do, it really shows that they care about the products they are giving you.

Next, we had the Maple-Mustard Pork Chops. We very, very rarely have pork of any kind, unless it is bacon. But as I mentioned in a previous post, HelloFresh really had a boom in sales I think when the pandemic hit and things were selling out before we even got to pick our meals. So we had to take what we could get. And I will tell you these pork chops were a huge surprise. I don't like Honey and neither does my Picky Eater (PE) so we didn't make the glaze, but everything else was delicious. The "pork chops" actually seemed more like pork medallions which were fine by us, they were just the right size. And the vegetable hash was amazing also.

Since my PE doesn't like Mushrooms, I was on my own for the Savoury Mushroom Tacos. They were good, if you enjoy mushrooms, you wouldn't even miss the meat. I will say that this made six tacos and I am not even ashamed to say I ate them all. They sent one thing of mushrooms and I cut them all up and to be honest with you, it didn't make much filling for these tacos.

So that was all there was for six tacos. It also came with a salad which you were supposed to add to the tacos. I just made it on the side and ate it as I ate the tacos. The salad was huge, I had enough for the tacos, I ate some alone for lunch the next day and a little on the side for supper. There was a lot.

Later on, in the week, we had the Honey Garlic Chicken Tenders. These were basic chicken fingers really. I made this a pan-sheet meal. I baked everything in the oven together and it came out great. I enjoy making things a little easier on myself than what they make it. I also made the sauce, but since my PE doesn't like Honey Garlic, I did not put it on the chicken, instead, I just dipped mine.

And finally, we had the Pizza Burgers. We saved these to the end of the week because again, we substitute the meat in it so we can wait longer to have them. They had a "Ketchup" which I didn't make for the burgers but I did dip my fries in and it was okay, nothing too special. We didn't make the "Pizza" burgers. We just had regular burgers but I made the fries the right way.