Martha Stewart and Marley Spoon Thanksgiving Dinner Box

My dinner-cooking repertoire consists of two dishes: Tacos and pork chops. Luckily, I am married to a wonderful cook, and I leave most of the cooking to him, so I get a bit more variety in my diet.

When I heard Martha Stewart teamed up with meal delivery service Marley Spoon for a $179 Thanksgiving dinner that would entail all of the ingredients and instructions delivered to my door, I was curious to try it out, but also completely intimidated. A 10-person meal, complete with homemade pie, sides and a 14-pound turkey? Plus recipes created by Martha, the queen of the complicated and fancy? Very scary.

But this boxed set promised to come with pre-measured ingredients along with recipes boiled down to six steps each. The streamlined instructions won me over, so I signed up for a test trial, excited to wow some friends in my neighborhood and unleash my inner Martha:

Thursday, October 20, 10 a.m.

The free-range turkey arrived frozen and boxed on my doorstep about a week before my intended cook date. There were clear instructions telling me to keep it in the freezer until 2-3 days before cooking.

Thursday, October 27, 9:35 a.m.

The day before the big meal, another box arrived. This one contained all the other ingredients I'd need for the sides and dessert, like a bag of apples, an adorable miniature bottle of apple cider vinegar, a single container of milk and little baggies of sugar and flour. There were also large recipe cards with six steps or fewer for each dish — as promised.