Essentials Box | December 4, 2021

This week’s lineup is all-organic with a couple of locally sourced items:

• Cameo Apples (OPMA)
• Beets (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Carrots (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Avocado
• Lemon
• Leeks
• Red Leaf Lettuce
• Zucchini
• Sweet Potato

The DGC is also selling a chef’s mix of mushrooms (with Shitake, Oyster, and others), which makes it the perfect time to make Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for leek, mushroom, kale and pea subji. We made it last week (after getting Meera’s book, East), and it’s a tasty, quick meal for midweek that’s also nicely low-carb on its own.

Essentials Box | October 9, 2021

Here’s this week’s all-organic Essentials Box lineup with several locally sourced delights:

• Green Cabbage (Ralph’s Greenhouse)
• Carrots (Ralph’s Greenhouse)
• Radish (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Jonagold Apples (OPMA)
• Bartlett Pears (OPMA)
• Limes
• Avocado
• Yellow Onion
• Yams

With this week’s inclusion of cabbage and carrots, DGC volunteer Agen is dreaming about one of his favorite Japanese dishes — okonomiyaki (derived from “okonomi” meaning “as you like” and “yaki” meaning “grilled“). Here’s a real simple recipe from… erm.. Real Simple. Agen also plans on adding in the radish, a bit of yellow onion, and maybe some yam! If you’re a meat eater, don’t forget the bacon!

Here’s also a more traditional recipe (involving Nagaimo yam) from one of Agen’s favorite cooking YouTubers:

Essentials Box | September 25, 2021

Here’s this week’s all-organic Essentials Box lineup with several locally sourced delights:

• Zucchini (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Carrots (Ralph’s Greenhouse)
• Sweet Corn (mix from Alvarez Farm and Hedlin Farm)
• Gala Apples (OPMA)
• Green Leaf Lettuce (Dharma Ridge)
• Avocado
• Bananas
• Green Onion
• Gold Potatoes

Here are a couple of recipe starters to get you going on this week’s box contents:

  • Zucchini, Corn, and Carrot Fritters from Betsy Life
  • Below is an easy, peasy curry sauce from Jamie Oliver that’s adaptable to just about anything you’ve got in the fridge or pantry (it was the first curry sauce DGC volunteer Agen ever made and was long in his repertoire before he started to get even more adventurous with Indian dishes). The curry recipe starts at 27:44: