There are lots of reasons for ordering recipe boxes to be delivered to cook at home.
It saves shopping, there is no waste, it is less decadent and cheaper than ordering a take-away and probably healthier, there may be a small sense of satisfaction in cooking and a visitor might be impressed by the prep in the kitchen. I do not order recipe boxes although I am tempted by Pasta Evangelist. I order PE takeaways but pasta is best cooked at home rather than biked across London and their recipes are easy: pasta to cook and a sauce to heat up. If you are interested, I doubt it, these companies deliver recipe boxes in London: Mindful Chef, Gousto, Hello Fresh and Grubby. I expect there are others.
It was Bertie’s 5th birthday on 18th March and Bella & Duke, purveyors of raw food by appointment to Bertram Beagle Esq., sent him this recipe kit. Unfortunately “pops” sounds too much like “poops” for my liking. Anyway I assembled it yesterday and of course the end result looks nothing like the neat Brussels sprouts in the picture. Have you wondered why they are called Brussels sprouts. In the 13th century that’s where they were cultivated, although Wikipedia conjectures they were grown in Ancient Rome. They didn’t get grown in England until the 17th century.
Afterword: Bertie was tentative at first but soon gobbled one up.
This looks less than appetising but I’m sure it tasted delicious. I recall that on his first birthday Bertie Woofster, my Labradoodle, was given an enormous gift-wrapped birthday cake from a certain large department store in Knightsbridge along with cupcakes reading ‘Woof’ in sugar on top. The giant cake was a confection of great beauty – and in no way resembled Brussels sprouts.
Belated birthday wishes to Bertie Beagle Esq.