{"id":55759,"date":"2018-10-16T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55759"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:33:52","slug":"sun-basket-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55759","title":{"rendered":"Sun Basket Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are enjoying the Sun Basket recipes so far. This post is about week two’s recipes.<\/p>\n

A reader commented on my last post about the waste of these meal services. I wanted to comment on that. With Blue Apron I remember feeling like the waste was pretty bad (and kind of a turn off for me). But so far with Sun Basket they seem pretty good about limiting waste. The box arrives and each of the three meals are packed in a paper bag (so we recycle it). There are a few plastic bags for certain items but overall there is not a lot of packaging or waste. I’m pretty happy with that.<\/p>\n

Week 2<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lettuce-wrapped lamb sliders with sweet potato \u201cfries\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

610 calories,\u00a0Paleo,\u00a0<\/span>Gluten-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Dairy-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Soy-Free<\/span><\/p>\n

This meal was by far my favorite of the boxes we’ve had so far. I absolutely LOVED the flavors. The tahini\/paleo mayo sauce was super flavorful and delicious, too. I loved the lettuce cups. I’ve seen a lot of those types of recipes but it never worked well when I tried it because the lettuce always ripped so it didn’t work well as a cup (or bun substitute). But the recipe described how to do it: basically cut the base off the head of lettuce and then carefully peel the leaves off. It worked a lot better and they didn’t rip.<\/p>\n

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This recipe was a home run and we will definitely be making again in the future. I’ve seen ground lamb at Trader Joe’s on occasion so I will try and look again next time to see if I can find it.<\/p>\n

Hungarian pork meatballs with cauliflower \u201crice\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

630 calories,\u00a0Paleo,\u00a0<\/span>Gluten-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Dairy-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Soy-Free<\/span><\/p>\n

The second recipe was the Hungarian meatballs. I’ve made cauliflower rice a bunch of times and I’m a fan. So far the meals have been pretty good overall and the portions were right. In this one there seemed to be a lot of cauliflower rice so we ended up making it 3 servings and I had some of the leftovers for lunch the next day.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never worked with watercress before and honestly, I don’t know what it really added to the dish. It didn’t really taste like anything to me. Maybe I’m wrong?<\/p>\n

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Everything worked with this recipe but it felt a little dry and it needed some kind of sauce. I ended up adding some Goddess Dressing to the meatballs and that helped.<\/p>\n

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Steak with bagna c\u00e0uda anchovy sauce, broccoli, and radishes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

690 calories,\u00a0Paleo,\u00a0<\/span>Gluten-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Dairy-Free,\u00a0<\/span>Soy-Free<\/span><\/p>\n

This was a very interesting recipe. Sure it was steak and veggies, which we do often on our own, but sauteing the broccoli was a new technique for us and radishes are not something we eat–like ever. I’ve pickled radishes a few times before and that was good but I can count on one hand the times I’ve eaten radishes. It was nice to try something new!<\/p>\n

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The steak was tender and delicious and I absolutely loved the anchovy sauce! I wasn’t sure I would but it was really flavorful and went great with the steak and vegetables.<\/p>\n

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I have a discount code<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, if you want to use it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are enjoying the Sun Basket recipes so far. This post is about week two’s recipes. A reader commented on my last post about the waste of these meal services. I wanted to comment on that. With Blue Apron I remember feeling like the waste was pretty bad (and kind of a turn off for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2124,315,2372,104,9740,107,3205,9909,212,5167,5170,259,9910],"tags":[5148,3292,9901,2444,9911,937,8729,9899,9912,9900],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55846,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55759\/revisions\/55846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}