Essentials Box | October 22, 2022

This week’s lineup is all-organic and includes a few local items:

• LOCAL Bartlett Pears (OPMA)
• LOCAL Cameo Apples (OPMA)
• LOCAL Carrots (Ralph’s)
• LOCAL Butternut Squash (Sound Sustainable Farm)
• LOCAL Rogue Blue-Green Curly Kale (Sound Sustainable Farm)
• LOCAL Broccoli
• Bananas
• Green Onions
• Tomatoes

With Diwali in mind and coming up on Monday, here are some recipe ideas to get you started:

Essentials Box | November 13, 2021

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

• Romanesco (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Carrots (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Carnival Squash (Caruso Farms)
• Honeycrisp Apples
• Bananas
• Limes
• Green Leaf lettuce
• Red Onion
• Gold Potatoes

A hybrid of the sweet dumpling and acorn squash, the carnival squash’s inner, somewhat stringy flesh has a mellow, but sweet flavor similar to sweet potatoes. It’s great baked, pureed, or steamed, or used in soups and stews.

Here are some recipes to get you started:

Carnival Squash

Essentials Box | October 16, 2021

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

• Green Leaf Lettuce (Sound Sustainable Farms)
• Spaghetti Squash (The Crows Farm)
• Honeycrisp Apples (OPMA)
• Bosc Pears (OPMA)
• Bananas
• Red Onion
• Gold Potato
• Red Pepper
• Zucchini

Here’s a primer on how to cook spaghetti squash from Love and Lemons, as well as a few recipe starters:

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: