Aloha everyone and happy back to school week!  We’ve got a bag full of good produce and some great recipes this week to help you get meals on your table quickly.

• bananas and daikon from Leilehua High School Ag students
• kale from Ho Farms
• long beans from Pacific Gateway Farmers
• slicing tomatoes from Green Growers
• hydroponic and organic lettuce from Mari’s Garden
• avocado and fresh rosemary from Kama`aina Land Plant Rentals and Nursery

 

We know you’re busy getting keiki to and from school again, so here are a few time friendly recipes that you can make to use your produce and still have time to relax!

Halibut with Asparagus, Tomatoes, & Rosemary   Use your slicing tomatoes and quarter them, and if you don’t want to buy asparagus, you can substitute in your long beans.  Any (white) fish would work, so if you can’t find halibut, use tilapia, moonfish, or even salmon.  20m and dinner is done!

Daikon Salad with Sesame Ginger Vinaigrette

Massaged Kale Salad

Avocado Mayo   Use this on your sandwiches or wraps!

 

As Hawaii’s families are preparing for Hurricane Iselle to pass by the islands later this week we hope you are setting up to have plenty of water, batteries, and food on hand  for yourselves and your pets.  Oahu Fresh will be delivering as usual this Wednesday and Thursday before the storm,  so you’re guaranteed to have some fresh produce on hand too.  Here’s what you’ll be receiving:

 

 

Ho Farms pesticide free swiss chard,

Pacific Gateway Farms eggplant,

Mari’s Gardens certified organic hyrdroponic lettuce,

Green Growers tomatoes and green onions,

Kahumana Farm organic carrots.

What can you do with all of this, especially in light of our impending bad weather?  Well, making some dishes that can be cooked ahead of time but eaten anytime might be useful!  Here are suggestions:

Swiss Chard Quiche   This quiche recipe calls for potatoes overlapping on the bottom to form a crust.  This is a great way to use lots of veggies that you may have leftover in the fridge, and can be eaten warm or cold–perfect if the electricity goes out!

Spicy Stuffed Eggplant

Beef Soup with Mushrooms and Chard   Perfect for rainy days and nights.

Eggplant Pizza: a couple ways!  Mark’s Daily Apple  Sugarfree Mom  Traditional Crust from Epicurious

Crispy Bacon and Green Onion Deviled Eggs

Cauliflower and Carrot Puree

No cook tomato dish:  Tomato Mozzarella Bliss   This is a simple and popular preparation, great for a side, snack, or light meal with some bread or protein on the side.

Enjoy, and be safe this weekend!

 

It’s that time of week again and as always, we have another stellar bag lined up for this week!  So here it is!

Cherry Tomatoes – Pacific Gateway Center

Organic Mixed Lettuce – Mari’s Garden

Organic Carrots – Kahumana Farms

String Beans – Pacific Gateway Center

Taro – Kako’o ‘Oiwi

Papaya – Pacific Gateway Center

Lemongrass – Ho Farms

 

5 Tasty Meals You can Make with Taro – yep, lots to choose from!!  – Includes Tropical Coconut Taro Warm Dessert Soup, Taro and White Bean Curry, Braised Taro with Dried Shrimp, Oven Baked Taro Chips, Taro Fries with Cilantro Pesto!

Carrot Lemongrass Soup  – add some stock and some other herbs and you’re good to go!!  Maybe go crazy and add the string beans??  Mind blown!!

Carrot-Papaya Smoothie – get out your Vita-Mix or Ninja Blender just a bunch of sharp knives and cool things down with this tasty smoothie!!

How about you, any recipes you want to share?  Post them on our Facebook Page!

 

Aloha Oahu Freshers!!

Hope you had a great weekend and didn’t get too wet from the rains.  Some of our  farms were flooded pretty badly, but should be able to recover quickly!  This week we will be getting carrots again which I hope everyone is enjoying!  Growing carrots is extremely hard, especially growing them organically so we’re super stoked that Kahumana Organic Farms has been having their summer bumper harvest!

In this week’s bag we have!!

• Butternut Squash from Ho Farms

• Cherry Tomatoes from Ho Farms

• Mixed Aquaponic Lettuce from Mari’s Garden

• Kale from Ho Farms

• Cosmic Carrots from Kahumana Organic Farms

• Avocados from Kamaaina Plants

 

Now what to cook with all of these great items in your bag?  Here’s some ideas from us, but please let us know if you have any great recipes of your own!!

Butternut Squash Chipotle Chili with Avocado  – this is a great vegetarian dish, but the great thing about vegetarian dishes is that its easy to turn it into a carnivore dish by just adding ground beef!

Oven Roasted Carrots and Kale  – super easy side dish to create that adds flavor if you’re not a huge fan of the slightly natural bitter flavor of kale!

Tomato Chicken Lemongrass  – add some flavor to that boring chicken breast!!

Enjoy!!

 

Aloha everyone!  Happy mid summer-we’re enjoying the weather and slower pace, and we’re excited to bring you great summer produce too.  This week’s bag will have grape tomatoes and long eggplant from Pacific Gateway Farmers, hydroponically grown organic lettuce from Mari’s Garden, organically grown Swiss chard from Ho Farms, organically grown carrots from Kahumana Farm, and local bananas from Kako’o Oiwi.

I can think of a few things to make with these items, and here are some links to help you.

Shredded Swiss Chard Salad

Roasted Eggplant and Cherry Tomatoes

Moroccan Raw Carrot Salad