This week’s bag features bush beans! Beans can be steamed in about 5 minutes or so, then complimented with butter or oil ad salt and pepper for a quick side dish. Try the quick and easy recipe below. Add some garlic and local peppers and serve over rice with your choice of meat on the side. What else do you have to experiment with in this week’s bag?

Mixed Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Filipino Long Eggplant– Pacific Gateway Center

Cherry Tomatoes– Pacific Gateway Center

Pineapple– Maui Pineapple Company

Bush Beans- Kahumana Organic Farms

Portobello Mushrooms- Small Kine Farm

Try these recipes!

Spicy Beans

Tortellini with Mushrooms and Cherry Tomatoes

Pineapple Chicken

This week’s bag features butternut squash! Are you intimidated by this hearty gourd? (Butternut) squash those self doubts and try something new! Although a fruit, butternut squash is used as a vegetable that can be roasted, toasted, puréed for soups, or mashed and used in casseroles, breads, and muffins. The seeds are also edible, either raw or roasted. Just one cup of butternut squash has 160 percent of your recommended amount of vitamin A, which is important to keep your immune system, skin and eyes in good shape and helps the body assimilate nutrients. What else is in this week’s bag?

Mixed Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Japanese Cucumbers– Pacific Gateway Center

Butternut Squash– Ho Farm

Rosemary- Kamaaina Land

Collard Greens– Kahumana

Slicing Tomatoes– Green Growers

Try these recipes!

Butternut Squash Casserole

Collard Roll Ups

Cucumber Salad