It’s time for your Oahu Fresh bag!!

 

I don’t know about you but its been so cold at night!  I almost had to use a blanket last night!  So to warm up, lets get in the kitchen and cook up something tasty with this week’s Oahu Fresh bag featuring daikon from Leileihua High School and Arugula from Nalo Farms!

 

 

 

Arugula – Nalo Farms

Daikon – Leileihua High School

Eggplant – Pacific Gateway Center

Japanese Cucumber – Ho Farms

Aquaponic Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Kale – Pacific Gateway Center

Green Onion – Green Growerski

 

Not one but 10 ways to enjoy daikon!!

In case you didn’t know, arugula is amazing, try some of these tasty recipes to use the spicy green to its full potential!

Eggplant with Green Onion – the green onion from Green Growers is always packed with flavor.  Rock it will this easy recipe!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

I had a lot of fun hanging out with friends, eating good food, and watching the Eagles beat up on the Cowboys!  Sorry to all you Dallas fans (not really)!  This week we’re trying out a new product from Ho Farms, watermelon radishes!  Why is it called watermelon radish, you ask?  Just cut it open and you’ll see why!  Yep, it looks a lot like a watermelon!  These beauties can be applied just like any other radish served cold or roasted.  Check out some recipe ideas below!

 

 

Choy Sum – Leileihua High School

Mixed Greens – Mari’s Garden

Taro – Kakoo Oiwi

Watermelon Radishes – Ho Farms

Grape Tomatoes – Pacific Gateway Center

Avocados – Kamaaina Land

 

Roasted Watermelon Radishes – doesn’t get easier than that!  Slice ’em and roast ’em!   Add a little olive and salt and throw the radishes in the oven!  Boom, done!

Watermelon Radish with Avocado Vinaigrette – use your lettuce, avocado, watermelon radish and maybe even go crazy and throw in a few grape tomatoes, throw in some oil, vinegar and few other things and you’re good to go!

Baked Taro Chips – in honor of keeping it simple, here’s an easy way to handle that bag of taro!  Everyone loves chips!

 

As always, let us know if you have any other recipes that you use!  Enjoy and have a great week!

 

Gobble Gobble!

Yep, it’s my favorite time of year, time to meet up with family and friends, eat lots of delicious food, have some cocktails and just celebrate all the things we’re thankful for!  Hopefully there are some items in the bag this week that you can add to your Thanksgiving dinner.  If you have any photos of any dishes that you make, please send them to us or post on our Facebook page!   As a reminder, all Thursday deliveries will be delivered on Wednesday instead!  We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

 

Butternut Squash – Ho Farms

Mixed Cooking Greens (Collard Greens or Swiss Chard) – Ho Farms

Aquaponic Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Japanese Cucumbers – Ho Farms

Mixed Baby Greens – Nalo Farms

Avocado – Hoalike Farms

Meyer Lemons – Hoalike Farms

Tangelos – Kamaaina Land

 

Here are some recipes to try out!

Caramelized Butternut Squash – anytime you add brown sugar in a recipe, you know its going to be a good time!

Southern Style Collard Greens/Swiss Chard  – fun easy dish to add to Thanksgiving that you can adjust as needed!

Deborah Madison’s Tangelo Pudding  – I don’t know who Deborah Madison is but I do know this looks super tasty!  Good way to wow your family and guests with a fruity dessert.

 

Aloha Oahu Fresh Members!

Another great bag this week featuring GIGANTIC pak choi coming from the amazing Ms. Jackie Akuna and her high school students at Leileihua High School.   Many of the farms are low in production right now due to all the rain we’ve had in the past few weeks, but they’re still able to bring in some great items again this week!

 

 

 

 

Pak Choi – Leileihua High School

Japanese Cucumbers – Pacific Gateway Center

Hapa Eggplant – Ho Farms

Kale – Pacific Gateway Center

Aquaponic Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Local Bananas – Kakoo Oiwi

 

So what do you do with all this pak choi.  For starters, pak choi is a cooking vegetable, however it can be eater  raw.  Check out Hawaii Horticulture for more information about this tasty vegetable.

Honey Chicken with Pak Choi  – nice easy dish that can be modified based on personal preference and what you have in the kitchen!

Spicy Sesame Eggplant and Pak Choi Stir Fry – interesting blog with a fantastic recipe to use both your hapa eggplant and pak choi!

Kale & Cucumber Salad with Lemon Tahini Dressing – another simple dish that can be modified as needed.  Use last week’s lemon if you still have it!

Fyi, no deliveries next week Wednesday because of Thanksgiving, all deliveries will be on Wednesday!  Have a great week and Happy Cooking!

Aloha Oahu Fresh members!  For the week of November 12 and 13, we have a yummy bag but we are definitely seeing the effects of the heavy rains from TS Ana a few weeks ago.  Produce is available in much smaller quantities than usual.

This week you’ll be receiving:

• Small Kine Farm mushrooms
• Mari’s Garden lettuce
• Pacific Gateway Farmers chives
• Ho Farms papayas
• Ho Farms kirby cucumbers
• Hoalike Farm meyer lemons and limes

What to do!?  Well, the papaya will be great with a squirt of either lemon or lime juice so that one is easy!

Use your mushrooms, and what ever other veggies you have laying around in this Teriyaki Beef Stir Fry  from PaleOMG.  You could even eat it over some shredded lettuce in a bowl, like a teri beef salad.

Skillet Chicken with Lemon Chive Sauce   A salad with your Ho Farms kirby cucumbers and Mari’s Garden lettuce is all you need to round this out.

10 Irresistible Papaya Smoothie Recipes

Cucumber Margarita

Benedictine Dip   Using cucumbers and cream cheese…yum!