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 | 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 | 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: