Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

MarleySpoon Mealbox review!

In order to start eating better and cut down on length of trips to the grocery store we decided to try a mealbox, we looked into 2 options Hello Fresh and Marley Spoon.  We decided on trying Marley Spoon because the food is more of what we are used to eating, it looked more adventurous and tasty, We are very pleased with the results, every meal has fed us and usually with leftovers.  Every one has been delicious and simple to prepare even with having to translate them from Dutch to English. When you pick the meals you are ordering they let you know for each recipe what you will need to have on hand ingredient-wise which is just things like vinegar, salt, pepper etc and what kitchen things you'll need like a baking sheet etc.  I have included pictures of how it arrives and several of the meals we've made. You can order the meals here in the Netherlands: https://marleyspoon.nl and in the USA: www.marleyspoon.com


Arrival:

Inside the Box:


Inside the bag:


This specific meal is stroganoff, which we haven't made yet but I wanted to show an example of how things came.

This is a clearer view of the front of the recipe cards. I didn't inlude the back because it's in Dutch but it's 6 pictures with instructions on how to prepare the ingredients: 

FINALLY the meals: 

 Saltimbocca

Chocolate Chilli 

 Sausage on Lentil Salad with Cranberry Chutney

 Chicken with Oven Roasted Vegetables


 Pork Pita

 Hearty Fish Stew

Spicy Chicken Sandwiches




Tuesday, February 14, 2017

It Snowed!!!

Ok so to a lot of people that's no big deal but being from Arizona snow is kind of a big deal.  This was Reks' first snowfall ever and he just turned 9 lol so it was pretty great!











Thursday, December 29, 2016

I MADE IT!!!

I'm officially living in the Netherlands now, hence the lack of updates!  I did win 3rd place in the Halloween Costume, so that was super awesome!! Reks is loving the cold weather, me not so much, but I have a fancy new coat that keeps me warm so it's all good.  Still trying to get the hang of cooking here, things are the same yet work slightly different for instance apparently cookie sheets are not things that exist here...as in I can't find one in any store no matter what kind of store it is.  Certain  grocery items have been a little difficult to find but partly that's due to the fact that I've been really sick since I got here so that doesn't leave much room for wandering around the store trying to find things.

My new camera arrived today soooo after I get an SD card I'll be trying that thing out! Really excited to start using it!! I also have a brand new Pink Gold Samsung Galaxy S7 which apparently Lil Wayne lied about and you can't really pour champagne all over or put it in a fish tank unless you want to mess up the microphone and speaker...

Here are some pictures from our time here: