TastyBag Trial – Steak with Warm Tomato Salad
I recently heard about TastyBag through a friend and found their business idea very intriguing, so I signed on for a week’s trial of their products.
The way TastyBag works is that every Monday, they will deliver a goody bag with 3 recipes and all the groceries needed to cook these recipes with. The only things you need to have at home are some simple seasonings (salt, pepper, vinegar etc) and a few pots and pans. You can choose portion sizes depending on the number of people in your household (TastyBag provides packages for 2 to 4 member households).
When I was working, I would rush during lunch time or after work to shop for groceries, then lug it all home and do a mad dash to the kitchen. TastyBag essentially saves you the time / energy / planning and delivers all the groceries to your door. I was quite impressed with their products, and a quick calculation rendered that the actual cost of the groceries is quite close to the HK$700 fee charged.
I love beef, so the first menu item I tackled was their steak / tomato salad combo. The beef was standard Australian sirloin, and I did overcook it a bit, but all-in-all, everyone was quite happy with my attempt. The entire meal took me around 20 minutes to prepare.
I first started by roasting some pine nuts on my pretty new teal Le Creuset pan. Don’t leave the stove as these nuts burn easily!
Quarter / halve the 2 kinds of tomatoes provided.
Fry the tomatoes for around 3-4 minutes in a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
