Jason McKinney

Spicy Pasta with Sausage, Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

Inspired by the Italian soup “pasta fagioli”—or, as New Yorkers call it, pasta fazool–this pasta dish, featuring beans and Italian sausage, is coated in a buttery, spicy cherry tomato sauce. And let us tell you, this dish is comfort on a plate. It also showcases the versatility of ButcherBox’s mild…

Spicy Cod Puttanesca Pasta in a bowl

Spicy Cod Puttanesca Pasta

This spin on the Naples, Italy pasta puttanesca starts off with a traditional garlicky tomato sauce that simmers to the tune of salty anchovies, briny capers and flavorful olives with a bit of heat from crushed red chili flakes. To take advantage of summer’s fresh tomatoes, this version kicks the…

Dry-Aged Strip Steak Salad

Have you ever wondered what “dry aging” is? It involves placing the meat in an open air, temperature- and humidity-controlled environment–and it makes ButcherBox’s strip steak amazingly tender and concentrated in rich umami flavor. In this recipe, slices of that rich steak are paired with a sweet and buttery corn and potato…

Seared Ranch Steak and Green Bean Salad with Parmesan on a plate

Seared Ranch Steak and Green Bean Salad with Parmesan

This dish is kind of like a salad, but it’s definitely not your mom’s lettuce and tomatoes (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). It’s a really tasty way to enjoy ranch steak (aka beef shoulder steak) and summer’s bean bounty at the same time. All you have to do…

Grilled Porterhouse Steak on a plate

Grilled Porterhouse Steak with Smoky Chimichurri Sauce

Porterhouse–this impressive large-format cut is perfect to share. This recipe gives you everything you need to know to grill ButcherBox’s 40-ounce(!) Porterhouse Steak to perfection. Plus, there’s a special chimichurri sauce, with smokiness from grilled shallot along with herbs, vinegar, olive oil, paprika and other spices. The complex flavor of…

Carne Asada Flank Steak Tacos With Grilled Scallions on a plate

Carne Asada Flank Steak Tacos With Grilled Scallions

Carne asada, hailing from the state of Sonora in northern Mexico, is as much a celebration of the smoky char-grilled beef as it is of gathering outdoors with friends and family. To make carne asada (which translates to “grilled meat”), you marinate steak–usually flank or skirt–in spices before grilling it…

Quick-Grilled Pork Ribs with Charred Scallion Sauce

Instead of slow cooking or braising for hours, like in our no-grill Guajillo rib recipe, here the ribs are cooked hot and fast. Are they the melt in your mouth, fall off the bone kind of ribs? No, but they have a delicious meaty chew and a lot of flavor…

Artichoke and Bacon Pasta with Herbs, Feta and Pistachios

This light pasta feels like the meeting of seasons with wintry artichokes rich ButcherBox bacon with light spring-y mint and salty feta. Large pieces of bacon cook first in the pan setting the mood and underlying flavor for the pasta with its distinct smokiness while onions, plenty of garlic sweeten…

Pasta Bolognese with Spinach and Parmesan in a bowl

Pasta Bolognese with Spinach and Parmesan

This makes quite a large batch of saucy and savory slow-cooked bolognese, famed meaty sauce that hails from Bologna, Italy. Here, ground beef, pork and bacon are the main characters, but they are supported by a vegetable medley, warm and cooling spices, orange peel and tomato to keep things bright…

Pan-Roasted Pork Steaks with White Bean and Radish Salad

Richly marbled ButcherBox Pork Butt, usually destined for low and slow cooking, is sliced and seared on high for a steak-like meal that’s similar to cooking a pork chop, but more forgiving if you overcook it. The salad of peppery crunch from radishes and creamy white beans, tossed in a…

Philly Cheesesteak-Style Sandwiches

It’s not every city that has a really delicious sandwich named after itself, but Philadelphia, Pennsylvania does. It’s also not the case that in every city you can get a reliably good version (if you can at all) of the sandwich of thinly sliced griddled beef, onions and melty cheese…