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!

 

Happy Fall Oahu Fresh members!  Hope you had a fun filled Halloween, taking advantage of the opportunity to be an alternate version of your daily self!  Trick or treating is a great way to relive the fun of that holiday too, if you didn’t try it this year, find some friends with keiki and go out next year, it’s really fun!

This week we have a great bag for you:

• Ho Farms butternut squash
• Ho Farms long beans
• Pacific Gateway Farmers kale
• Avocado from Kama`aina Land Plant Rentals and sharwil avocado  from Serikaku Farms
• Daikon grown by Leilehua HS Ag Students
• Mari’s Garden hydroponic and organic lettuce

If you’re stumped on what to do with these items, here are some tips and recipes to help you get started.

Quick Pickled Carrots and Daikon (and an easy recipe for Bahn Mi, yum!!)  If you haven’t had a Bahn Mi sandwich yet, get yourself to the Pig and the Lady quick and try one!  TPATL has pop ups that can be found at several of the local farmers’ markets, or you can visit their brick and mortar restaurant in Chinatown for lunch.  In any case, try the bahn mi, then if you’re in love, you can recreate it at home!

Garlicky Daikon Mashed Potatoes

Portuguese Chourico and Kale Soup

Lemony Kale Salad with Pine Nuts, Raisins, and Parmesan   One of my favorite ways to eat kale, and I love the sweet and salty combination of raisins and cheese.  Plus fatty nuts!  What’s not great about this salad!?

Not sure what to do with long beans?  My last bunch I cooked by cutting them up into pieces about 2-3 inches long, then sautéeing them in coconut oil and walnut oil.  I added some pecans, and a little salt.  After the beans cooked to bright green, I took them off the heat, and added a few more splashed of walnut oil.  Done!

Quinoa, Kale, and Bacon Stuffed Butternut Squash