After this holiday weekend I swore I wasn’t eating all week long, trust me, the sugar reserve in my body could sustain me that long. But now.. I may be making this amazing pizza! Blue Apron looks so fun.

Side note, where oh where did you find the wood paddle you’re goat cheese landed on?

That sounds pretty darn yummy! Especially the goat cheese! Luckily, I live in NH, so I get Vermont Creamery goat cheese all. the. time. =)

Looks so good! I’ve made something similar and and was loving the fall flavors together on a pizza … from here: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/03/roasted-acorn-squash-and-gorgonzola-pizza/

Just signed up, thank you for the perk! That pizza looks delish.

Being an Ohio girl you should check out Mackenzie Creamery. Love their goat cheese….
http://mackenziecreamery.com/where_to_buy_goat_cheese.html

Tried the beans + chipotle sauce + bacon recipe you wrote about a little while back. Very yummy! Loved it.

Nicole B.

I love goat cheese! It’s my absolute favorite way to add creaminess and a slight tang to a dish — I use it on all salads, eggs, pizza, pasta, soups…well, you get the picture. I also love that most folks with an aversion to dairy can still eat goat cheese (the protein is different!).
This pizza sounds delicious. We make one similar with caramelized red onion, kale, butternut squash and chicken. It’s sooooo good. In fact, I think I need to make that this week now. :)
Also, I know lots of bloggers do reviews for Blue Apron, but you’re one of the only ones that it makes sense for to me and doesn’t sound like a advertisement! :)

We lived in VT until last month and can attest to the high quality of VT Creamery products. Total aside: Is that a piece of Hmong cloth? Whatever it is, I’m loving the imprecise geometric patterns and gorgeous blues.

Where did you get the board in the top picture? It’s so pretty!

Yay, it was my suggestion to crumble it from a log! I win the internet today!

You WIN!!!! x

Wayfair!

Yes, it’s vintage batik!

Thanks Jen. I first starting eating goat cheese a few years back when I had to restrict dairy from my diet because I was nursing and Mabrey was dairy intolerant. Love it, too!

I know sponsored posts aren’t the most popular types of posts but one every now and then is necessary to cover costs and compensate me for the time I spend doing the blog thing. It makes me really happy to hear that you don’t find them jarring. I really try to feature only those sponsors that I would support whether I had a blog or not. Blue Apron is such a great company and service. I wish I could give all the single parents a week’s worth of meals to lessen the chaos of juggling it all.

Oh, great! I’m glad you liked it.

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoy!

That looks YUMMMMMMM…

Wayfair!

Your comment about never cooking with fennel made me think of this recipe and I just had to share (if you like salmon): http://www.marthastewart.com/316579/mediterranean-salmon-cooked-in-parchment. I had never cooked with it before this recipe either but have since gotten hooked. It’s become one of our favorite family meals and it is so incredibly easy…it was like the gateway drug to my fennel obsession!

I’ve been wanting to try Blue Apron and the discount from your post pushed me into signing up! Now I’m really excited to get my delivery :)

Two other ‘fall friendly’ pizza topic combos I love:

– thinly sliced potato on a base rubbed with olive oil, crushed garlic, rosemary and then sprinkled with some more rosemary and a bit of salt and pepper

– Saute some assorted mushrooms with a leek (or onion) and garlic. Top your pizza base with a little tomato sauce, some baby spinach and the mushroom mixture and sprinkle with crumbled goats cheese. If you are feeling particularly lush scatter with some pine nuts too.

Mmmmm…those sound delicious.

We love salmon over here, so I’m definitely going to give this a try. Thanks for sharing!

That does look so delicious! I guess for people who don’t know how to cook and don’t mind spending $50+ for dinner a few times a week this would work out great. Although to me this seems pretty ridiculous. It’s just depressing to me that someone would pay that much for probably $10-15 worth of groceries and a recipe card. You don’t even have to know how to make pizza dough! You can probably buy it at your deli counter for less than $3.

I believe this pizza was $20. Not too bad I think considering everything showed up at my doorstep and it actually provided my family with a dinner plus several leftover lunches!

Yes, it does sound very convenient, and I’m sure on a rare occasion it would be nice. I was just going by the $10/ per person guidelines for my 5 person family. At 500ish calories a person per meal my family wouldn’t have enough to eat splitting a 1000 calorie pizza, so I would have to buy the pull 5 person meal. 200 calories for dinner per person would leave them coming back for more in about 10 minutes. And if I’m going to be paying $50 for a meal, I’d rather not be the one making it and cleaning it up. If it was just my husband and I and we both worked I would probably use this all the time, it just seems crazy expensive for a family.

Funny timing – I’m doing a giveaway today for Blue Apron, although it isn’t sponsored. (They have no clue who I am.) Every couple of months they give me three weeks to share with friends, and after spreading them around to close friends, I now offer them up on my blog.

I really, really like Blue Apron. We get the vegetarian meals, and they have completely changed the way we think about eating. I actually love the process of prep work and cooking – it’s a good bridge for me from my busy work day at the office to home with the family. And I love cookbooks – I read them like I’d read a novel, cover to cover, and then I really dive into making as much as I can from them. We don’t use them every week – I skip the weeks when I know we’ll be out of town, but I also skip when there are ingredients I know we don’t like – strangely enough, it’s fennel! I also try to steer clear of recipes where tree nuts seem to be an integral ingredient to the recipes because of my oldest daughter’s allergies. That means we maybe use them once or twice in a six week period.

There have been six recipes that were so over the top good that they’ve become regulars in our house now. I actually did a little test at the grocery store and compared my receipt with the $20 I would have spent on that dish from BA and I really do think they are a good deal – particularly when you think about all the unique and exotic ingredients that might render a similar recipe in a cookbook undoable – do I really want to buy two $12 spice jars to get the 1/2 teaspoon spice blend I need? I agree that it’s not for everyone. I think it would get very pricey for a larger family for sure. But it really has been a game changer for us.

My husband is a vegetarian, and we eat vegetarian at home (although I always, always eat meat or seafood when dining out and my girls eat meat at school). I have found it a challenge to stay inspired in the past. When we first married we ate a lot of pasta and sauce and steamed veggies – cheap grocery bills, but not very exciting, and not always the healthiest either. Several years ago we really started to challenge ourselves to get out of the same rut, and we’ve been making a serious effort to put good, healthy, filling dinners on the table every night. I think sometimes it’s assumed that having a meat-centric plate is more expensive than a meatless one, but putting together a balanced and delicious vegetarian meal takes some work and it’s rarely inexpensive. Produce, spices, good cheeses, they can quickly add up in price. I think Blue Apron is worth every penny.

My last two cents – even if you eat meat, try out their vegetarian dishes. The really are terrific.

The pizza looks amazing! We make pizza all the time, so it’s nice to learn a few more recipes. I’ve never heard of Blue Apron. Will have to check it out.

Hey – great mention for Vermont Creamery – Allison is the “real deal” – and they make fantastic cheese — try Bonne Bouche sometime! Mmmmmmmm . Also, thanks for this post – looks intriguing to me to have everything ready to go – shopping is my nemesis!

mmmm looks delicious. Do your little foodies what Master Chef Jr? My son loves it! Those little humans are amazing. Maybe you’ve got a future chef on your hands.:)

We’ll have to check it out! So far, he enjoys eating MORE THAN cooking ;)