Marley Spoon Meal Kit: Actual Cooking, Good Food

This creamy mushroom chicken breast did not taste like I cooked it, even though I definitely did. It tasted like my mom cooked it. But the only mom actually involved was the mother of all Yankees, Martha Stewart. I had simmered up my chicken with the help of a Marley Spoon meal kit. Marley Spoon isn’t quite Martha Stewart’s meal kit: It was founded in Germany. But it isn’t not Martha Stewart’s meal kit, either. Stewart endorses the brand heartily on the Marley Spoon website, many of the early recipes and techniques for the United States rollout came from her larder, and the creamy mushroom chicken in particular was tagged as one of “Martha’s Best.” (The recipe was devised, in fact, by a food author and prolific recipe developer named Anna Painter.) Photograph: Matthew Korfhage The mushroom chicken was the sort of recipe I’d usually never think to make: vaguely but not at all Hungarian, with crispity chicken bits deglazed into a Dijon-paprika chicken broth and fattened up with cream ... Read full article.