The holidays are right around the corner. But cooking
your meal from scratch may not be a viable option
this year. So here to show us an efficient
and delicious way to celebrate while stretching your dollar with
our holiday roast box, the head chef from blue
, a bread chef, John Adler chef back in
the studio with the delicious spread here. It's so
nice to have you. Thank you so much for
having me back. I'm so happy to be here
. Ok. So maybe let's start with kind of
the focus of the meal, which seems to be
this amazing. What is this a grass fed beef
is? It's grass fed beef tenderloin. It's a
ÂŁ3 beef tenderloin roast. It gets prepared roasted in
the oven and served with a cheri and dijon sauce
and it's absolutely delicious. Ok. It smells very
good. What else is on the table up here
? So we have a beautiful salad here. Something
to kind of counterbalance all the richness of the beef
with roasted pears, some spice nuts, grapes and
a little bit of goat cheese. Obviously a cheesy
potato bake because you need to have some meat and
potatoes together and then a really easy to prepare but
elevated honey glazed carrots with some pistachios and mint and
to finish it all off. Uh What everyone's waiting
for a really easy but elegant dessert. That's a
chocolate and espresso trifle with a little bit of caramel
tweel. OK. That looks amazing to me.
So before we kind of go step by step here
, what can our viewers expect in terms of when
they need to order this by and how much it
will cost? So all in the box costs$180
and they need to order by December 16th to get
it in time for Christmas. So still have plenty
of time to order it. And one thing to
note is, you know, in a normal grocery
store, you're coming up close to$180 just for
the beef alone just for that alone. Yeah.
So it's, it's really engineered around value and also
around convenience. This is something that anyone can do
. And one of the nice things about it,
especially with something like the trifle is that you can
get other people involved to finish this up. You
take just a little bit of this pie crust and
you put it over the top and then this is
, you know, I've got three kids. I
like to get them involved in the kitchen. So
I say these are great jobs for little hands and
so you just take this and it's really fun.
You just break that hand. Oh, yeah.
Go for it. And it just feels good.
It has a good texture too. Right. Yeah
. You know, all of this is super creamy
and luscious and then you have this tweal to just
give you a little bit of pop, of sweetness
and texture. I'm sticking them in. Are you
supposed to stick them in or just lay them on
top? It really sort of whatever you want?
I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter.
Right. And the challenge is not eating it.
I know. I know exactly. That was the
hardest part. That's the hard part is staring at
it. And so it's kind of nice that you
can just pass it off to someone, pass it
off to your kids and let them break it.
And, you know, there's the, the carrots
are also something you can make well in advance.
But then again, you could have even one of
your guests if they come over, you know,
inevitably you have the person who shows up early and
they go, how can I help? And you
say, oh, just put this on top.
So, you know, you put some chopped pistachios
on with some mint and you have this really elegant
presentation. Ok. So roughly how many people will
this serve? Remind me. So eight adults,
uh you can easily stretch it to 10 if you've
got some kids in there. Uh But eight adults
, no problem. Everyone will be very full and
uh people can go to Blue apron.com/cheddar Holiday. I
like that and they will find this box. They
will also find an offer there for anyone who's not
a blue apron subscriber to get 100 and$80 off
their first six boxes if they want to dive into
our core meal kits. So again, it's really
meant to be something to take the stress out of
the holidays. I mean, everyone, everyone gets
a little bit nervous about having guests over and having
the right amount of food. And this is really
an elegant meal that's meant to remove all that stress
, but make everyone super happy and well fed.
So on average, as people try to prepare,
how much time should they set aside to prepare and
cook a meal like this? So you're talking about
90 minutes at the most of your thing about setting
the table and everything else. It's two hours.
So you're not, you know, you're not waking
up and starting first thing in the morning. There
are parts of it that you can do the day
before. So you can easily do your carrots the
day before. You can set up your potatoes the
day before and then. So you can stretch that
out. But you know, it's not one of
those days where one person gets locked in the kitchen
and everyone else is in the house and wrapping the
last presents, et cetera. It's it's really meant
to be just a low intensity cooking moment to have
a really elevated and delicious meal. Now, you
said these are roasted carrots, right? Because they
look delicious even on their own before we added the
extra touch of pistachio. And what is this?
Mint basil? Yeah. No, it's a little
bit of mint. So the carrots are roasted in
the oven and then they get tossed with orange juice
. A little bit of Calabrian chilies and honey.
So you get that sweet and spicy effect and then
the mint cools it off the pistachios, give it
a nice crunch. And so the, and you
know, the other thing is we eat with our
eyes, so it's not just plain orange carrots,
you get all the beautiful colors and it really adds
a lot of festivity to the, to the holiday
table and it's something that we hope, you know
, puts people at ease at a time of otherwise
a fair amount of stress. Yeah. And I
can imagine to feed a family of eight, as
you mentioned that this can feed to go out with
a restaurant bill a lot more than 100 and 80
bucks. Right. Yeah, I mean, you're
talking about less than$25 a person for a full
meal, including dessert. You can, you know
, at a restaurant, especially around the holiday season
, you're generally looking at almost double that. Right
. It's going to be a lot more expensive.
Any other tips for our viewers on how to stretch
their dollar when it comes to using Blue Apron meal
preparing and cooking this holiday season. I mean,
I think the most important thing is, you know
, think about things that you can make in big
batches. So like these potatoes you can make in
a big batch, these carrots you can make in
a big batch. And with our core product,
the biggest thing that we focus on is minimizing waste
. And so when you sign up for blue apron
, you're getting perfectly portioned ingredients to get you exactly
what you need for a meal for two or a
meal for four. And that means that at the
end of that meal, you don't have a bunch
of leftovers that you're not sure what to do with
the fridge. So everybody is fully satisfied, but
you're not worried about actually wasting any of the food
. And this is a chimica. Is that what
you said? No, this is a, it's
a sherry vinegar and mustard sauce. So it has
a little bit of acidity to it, but a
good amount of richness and it's going to counteract all
that really rich, delicious beef. Ok. So
what's the tip like this beef is cooked to perfection
, right? So what's the tip to make sure
if you're gonna invest in a, in a,
a dish like that, that you do it?
Right. Yeah. The big thing there is just
the timing. Um and taking and focusing on each
step. So we have people take it out of
the fridge a little bit beforehand. It generally doesn't
help to cook meat from cold. So, um
, season it early, take it out of the
fridge early, take the time to sear it properly
and it's actually a fairly hands off product in so
far as like you, you, you brown it
off and you pop it in your oven. Um
And then you'll notice that beautiful juiciness. All of
that is because you just don't slice it right away
. It takes a little bit of patience, but
it is worth it. I mean it is so
succulent and delicious and it's worth every dollar. Can
we try some of this dessert? Oh, please
. By all means we should we use these?
Yes, let's Jonathan. Will you try with me
? I would happily try with now remind our yours
. What is this? So this is a chocolate
and espresso trifle. It's got chocolate pastry cream,
espresso espresso pastry cream, almost like a tiramisu but
made it a lot easier. OK? And it's
like a cake. Yeah, it's got some pie
crust in there. Oh my gosh. It's so
good. It's really well balanced. That espresso gives
a little bit of bitterness and then you got that
punch of uh I I feel the kick right now
. I just want to eat this whole thing.
Uh That will be a serving for one. Thank
you very much uh chef John Adler, head chef
of blue apron, John. Thank you so much
. Thank you so much for having me happy holiday
. You as well.