Stories

school-lunch

30 School Lunch Ideas for Picky Eaters

Coming up with school lunch ideas for picky eaters can be a big challenge. Especially if you’re trying to incorporate healthy options into your child’s lunch box. The good news is there are lots of fun and healthy school lunch ideas that even extremely picky kids and fussy eaters will…

Instant Pot® Baby Back Ribs

Cooking ribs, especially ButcherBox’s Ribs, in an Instant Pot® will make you a believer in pressure cooking if you’ve at all been skeptical. For one, it cuts the normal cooking time down by a lot. Plus, with this recipe you’ll see how tender and flavorful these baby back ribs can…

Chicken Piccata with Wilted Greens

Chicken piccata, an Italian-American staple of thin pan-fried cutlets enveloped in a buttery rich and lemony bright sauce with briny capers, is truly special. It’s easy, calls for mostly pantry-ish ingredients and is just delicious. In this recipe, there’s the addition of wilted greens that are quickly sautéed in olive…

Chopped Bacon Salad

For this salad, sweet romaine, fennel and bitter chicories get tossed in a fried garlic and pine nut-oregano vinaigrette. ButcherBox Bacon and creamy feta top this salad that is simple yet complex with textures and greens, nuts and cheese. This is the beauty of a chopped salad—almost anything can go…

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…

Scallops in XO Sauce with Fried Noodles in a bowl

Scallops in XO Sauce with Fried Noodles

In the kitchens of seafood restaurants near 1980s Hong Kong Harbor might just be where XO sauce was invented, or it also might have first been made at the luxe Spring Moon restaurant, also in the Chinese city. Either way, the sauce has become a staple flavor booster for many…

Brown Butter Seared Scallops in a pan

Brown Butter Seared Scallops

Butter of the sea (aka ButcherBox’s Sea Scallops) are even more luxurious when seared and caramelized before being sauced with brown butter, briny capers, sharp shallots and a punch of lemon juice. It’s a dish that makes you feel like you’ve become a fine dining chef in just 30 minutes,…

Ranch Steak Picadinho

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which sits on the coast facing the Atlantic Ocean, is known for its picturesque beaches, lush mountainous terrain, boulevards straddled by high rises of Modernist and Old World European architecture, and vibrant culture. It’s an extremely surreal yet recognizable urban landscape for a large nation with…

Pork Chops in Peppery Gravy

ButcherBox’s Pork Chops get seared until golden brown and then braised on the stovetop in a savory gravy that acts as a sauce, but also the cooking medium—efficient and genius, really. It’s a method called smothering and rooted in the American South’s cajun and creole cuisines. This technique works very…