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 | August 7, 2021

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

• White Turnips (Wright Brothers Farm)
• Lacinato Kale (Wright Brothers Farm)
• Cucumber (Wright Brothers Farm)
• Carrots (Ralph’s Greenhouse)
• Nectarines
• Fuji Apples
• Bartlett pears
• Red Onion
• Gold Potatoes

NOTE: We mistakenly included some of last week’s contents in reminder emails.

Here are some recipe starters that combine turnips and kale this week:

In the box this week:

  • Fuji Apple
  • Lemon
  • Cara Cara Oranges
  • Carrot
  • Celery
  • Yellow Onion
  • Parsley
  • Kale broccolini
  • Red Beets 

What to do with it all: 

Hi friends, Kate here again. Spring is springing! We are all getting so excited about what comes next, both for all of us on a weather front, and for the DGC in particular! Thank you to those of you who came by the farmstand last week – we’ll have it up again this week and we’re actively looking at ways to expand our offerings, so stay tuned! 

In the immediate, here are a couple of ideas about what to do with your box contents: 
– a recipe from Bon Appetit for Spiced Beets with Garlicky Labneh. Not to worry, if you are unfamiliar with labneh, the recipe calls for swapping in plain yogurt as an alternative. 
– another recipe from Bon Appetit for beets, but this one is a cake! Try their Heartbeet Chocolate Cake if you want to shake up how you use your beets. Beet sugar was once quite common, and similar to using carrots in baking, beets can be a nice alternative way to get moisture and sweetness into your baking. Although, there is still sugar in the recipe. 

Here’s a tip for your carrots, onions, and celery – chop up 1 cup of each, combine and put in an airtight container in the fridge, and you have the base of so many recipes. The start to a ton of different sauces, if you want to add flavor to a pot of beans, or something you’re going to braise, head start to many soups, or a spring stew, etc. If you are getting out one of your bigger pots, and going to build a lot of flavor in whatever you’re making, this would be a handy head start. 

Have a wonderful and dry weekend, and happy eating!