I cooked Michelin Star-quality meal at home in an hour instead of going to a restaurant

I got cooked restaurant-quality nutrient for Valentine's Day - and it was incredible.

If you cringe astatine the thought of sitting down astatine a edifice for a romanticist repast connected Valentine's Day, you're not alone. Gone are the days erstwhile my hubby and I observe the time of emotion with a glitzy repast retired - we present opt for a cozy nighttime successful connected the sofa instead.

So erstwhile I was offered the accidental to effort Michelin-quality nutrient from the comfortableness of my ain location for Valentine's Day, I jumped astatine it. Indulge Dining offers a stylish flight from Valentine’s Day clichés, providing couples with a luxurious six-course repast kit.

With caller YouGov information revealing that 25% of Britons dislike oregon outright hatred Valentine’s Day, and galore struggling to find caller ways to celebrate, this repast kit offers an intimate and cringe-free alternative. Founded by Michelin-trained cook Andy Bowler, this limited-edition repast kit brings restaurant-worthy dishes to the comfortableness of your ain kitchen, turning Valentine’s Day into a solemnisation of prime time, large food, and zero awkwardness.

“Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone—I get that,” says Andy Bowler, laminitis and enforcement cook astatine Indulge Dining. “But wherefore not usage the accidental to prioritise immoderate prime clip with your partner? We created our Valentine’s repast kit to connection couples a meaningful mode to people the occasion—one that’s intimate, relaxed, and wholly their own."

The limited-edition Valentine’s repast kit

The menu

Canapé: Heritage carrot, goat’s curd, and lovage

Starter: Confit chickenhearted with murphy rösti, chaotic garlic, and smoked yolk (vegetarian option: rosemary gnocchi with pumpkin, tarragon, and chaotic mushrooms)

Homemade Bread & Butter

Main Course: Beef rump headdress with Jerusalem artichoke, babe leeks, and Bordelaise condiment (vegetarian option: caramelized onion, spinach, ricotta, and sunflower seeds)

Dessert: Yorkshire rhubarb with almond and vanilla

Petit Fours: Salted caramel truffles

So, however did I get on?

First things first: packaging and appearance. The repast kit is delivered with crystal packs, and each people is neatly packed successful its ain cardboard box.

Each kit includes elemental instructions connected however to vigor and sheet the dishes, on with photos of however they should look - offering immoderate inspiration for presentation.

Since everything arrives 90% acceptable to go, dissimilar repast kits similar HelloFresh oregon Gousto, you’re not faced with galore caller ingredients to prep. The main tasks impact heating, frying, and, of course, plating.

Starting with the canapés, we were fixed 2 blinis to assemble with pickled practice carrot, goat’s curd, and lovage mayo. This was ace easy, but it progressive piping small dots onto the canapé Michelin-style. I decidedly gained a newfound respect for chefs trying to marque plates look pretty. It was a tasty bite, but it didn’t stroke maine away.

Next up was the starter, which featured a delicious murphy rösti and confit chicken. This was perfectly divine. The crockery progressive piping connected the chaotic ail and smoked yolk earlier finishing with immoderate pickled shallots. The champion part? Getting to enactment with ingredients I would ne'er usually bargain oregon prepare. The prime of the nutrient was unmistakably restaurant-level.

For the main course, we rendered the abdominous connected the beef rump headdress earlier popping it successful the oven, past served it alongside Jerusalem artichokes, onions, babe leeks, kale, an artichoke purée, and Bordelaise sauce.

We cooked the beef to a cleanable uncommon (my favourite), and the summation of bony marrow thickened the condiment beautifully, making it melt-in-the-mouth delicious. It was easy the champion crockery I’ve ever “cooked” astatine home—I was impossibly adjacent to licking my sheet clean.

Finally, dessert.

This was the showstopper: an almond and vanilla crèmeux with toasted almonds, tart poached rhubarb, rhubarb gel, and a rhubarb reduction. Beautiful edible flowers were sprinkled connected top, creating 1 of the astir stunning dishes I’ve ever laid eyes on.

After sending a representation to my family, they replied, “Did you marque that?” Well—yes and no. But it tasted incredible.

The repast besides came with homemade breadstuff and butter, positive salted caramel truffles arsenic petit fours—both delightful.

Final thoughts

Overall, this was a fantastic acquisition and a beauteous enactment to bash with my hubby without having to permission the house. The ingredients were caller and incredibly precocious quality—it was specified a privilege to make Michelin-style nutrient astatine home.

Priced astatine £70 per person, it is expensive, but the prime does marque up for it and there's besides plentifulness of food. You'd decidedly extremity up spending much astatine a Michelin Star restaurant.

Orders indispensable beryllium placed by February 12 for guaranteed Valentine’s Day delivery.