It’s almost delivery time once again and as always, we have a great bag coming to you!!   Also, if you are making any special dishes that you would like to share using products from your bag, please be sure to share with everyone on our Facebook page!

• Aquaponically grown mixed lettuce from Mari’s Garden
• Slicing tomatoes from Green Growers
• Japanese cucumbers from Pacific Gateway Center
• Long squash from Ho Farms
• Baby carrots from Mari’s Garden
• Green Onions from Green  Growers
• Apple Bananas from Windward Plants

Now, what to cook??   Try these tasty recipes!

Roasted Carrots and Squash – Doesn’t get much easier than this!   Squash, carrots, add oil and some spices and then roast in the oven!!   That’s my kind of cooking!!

Orzo with Tomatoes, Feta, and Green Onions – Ok, this gets a little more complicated but still doable!!   Grab some Feta Cheese from Naked Cow Dairy and you are all set!

CSA Salad – very fitting, perfect for mixing your tomatoes, lettuce, Japanese cucumbers, squash and carrots all together to make one epic salad!

 

Aloha everyone!  Happy April-here’s what we’re bringing you this week-locally grown Waimanalo bananas, slicing tomatoes and bok choy from Green Growers, broccoli grown by Leilehua HS students, kale from Pacific Gateway Farmers, and lettuce from Mari’s Garden.

We’re really excited to bring you this fresh locally grown produce, and here are a few ways you can use this week’s fresh veggies!

Roasted Broccoli with Garlic

Seared Scallops with Bok Choy and Miso   I made a variation of this a few weeks ago with sweet bay scallops–it was delicious!

Kale with Roasted Beets and Bacon

Creamy Kale and Eggs   I like to add greens into my breakfast meals as much as possible so that I know I’m getting a good start to eating a lot of vitamins in the day.  Here’s a way to use your kale in your breakfast.

Asian Lettuce Wraps   Lettuce wraps are a wonderful alternative to sandwiches and flour or corn tortillas.  They are so easy to pack that I’ve been eating them with different kinds of filling at least once a week.

Aloha Oahu Fresh family!  This week brings us into the last days of March and hopefully the last of the heavy winter rains.  I am always sad to see the whales leave, but I know there are still some around so get out and see them now while you can!

We return to citrus in this week’s bag, with clementines for you from Uluwehi Farm, long beans from Ho Farms, cucumbers from Pacific Gateway Farmers, organic keiki greens mix from Kahumana Farm, and, at long last, slicing tomatoes (!!) along with green onions from Green Growers.  I am feeling like there will be some wonderful salads with this week’s produce, so we are going to

explore those options in this week’s recipe list.

Have you tried roasting a salad?  Me neither but I’m about to!  Here’s a recipe to help you get started, and keep in mind the mix you receive in your bag is more like 3-4 cups not 6, so you should halve the ingredient amounts listed here.  Roasted Salad of Spring Greens   In this recipe she uses hazelnuts, but I would probably sub in mac nuts to keep it local or pine nuts, almonds, or walnuts.

Balsamic Steak and Spring Mix salad   Easy, healthy, and you can go one or two steps further and add your tomatoes and green onions to this.  Or steamed/sauteed long beans.

Blueberry Cucumber Smoothie

Thai Beef and Cucumber Salad

Barbecued Chicken with Warm Green Bean Salad   Use your long beans here!

Cucumber Yogurt Soup

 

 

Alooooha everyone!  We finally made it a week without rain!  Or at least not much of it…but the wind was pretty amazing.  Now that we are more than halfway through March we can expect better weather but the rains have definitely taken a toll on our farms.  Produce is suffering a bit and quite a lot of what is available is the same from farm to farm.  It’s easy to see what crops can take the consistent rains and what doesn’t do so well!

This week we had a tough time finding a diversity of veggies for you but we were able to get beautiful hydroponic organic lettuce from Mari’s Garden, it is a mix of Salanova Green Butter and Red Butter lettuce, plus Shanghai Bok choy from Green Growers, crispy string beans from Pacific Gateway Farmers, and chinese parsley from the amazing ag students at Leilehua High School!  Also we were able to get a little bit of rambutan and some longan (Dragon’s Eye).  A pretty good bag despite the rain!

Here’s a few suggestions on what you could use this produce for:

How to Cook Bok Choy, and recipe--we may have posted this link before but it is so good and such a good tutorial that I keep coming back to it!  Steamy Kitchen–always a winner!

Greek Style Green Beans   Lots of good review of this one.

Barely Cooked String Beans   and if you’re not interested in cooking your beans until they are soft, try this one!

Butter Lettuce Salad with Gorgonzola and Pear Dressing…well yes, because I will eat anything with Gorgonzola on it 🙂

Green Beans with Parsley Lemon Pesto   Although this uses Italian Parsley, Chinese Parsley will be a nice switch–making this asap!!

Cold Lemon Soba Noodles

Bon Apetit local eaters!  Also if you are not busy, Leilehua HS is hosting the 60th Annual Kunia Orchid Show starting this Friday!  Support local ag students!  and maybe win an orchid basket, the 2014th visitor gets one!

Hello Oahu Fresh Members!

This week’s bag contains an old favorite that we haven’t seen in a long time- Long Squash from Ho Farms is back!  Long squash, aka opo, is something that we often see at the market but many people aren’t quite sure how to use it.  We’re going to help you out with some ideas below!  We’re also bringing you organic keiki greens from Kahumana Farm, rambutan from Frankie’s Nursery, green onions from Green Growers, and baby cucumbers and kale from Pacific Gateway Farmers.

A great recipe to use your long squash in was posted by one of our members on our facebook page but in case you aren’t using that type of social media, we’ll put it here too!  But hey, if you’re on facebook–like us!!

Tasting Hawai`i with Moloka`i Chef James Temple–Opo (Long Squash) Soup

Opo-Uncovering Food   With a recipe for Squash Chips!

Baked, Stuffed, and Stir Fried Opo Recipes

Potato Kale Soup   I made this soup last night and it’s really good!  Great flavor, and kale is also very good as a detox food, so if you have maybe made a few bad choices over the weekend or last few days, this recipe will help!

Baby Heirloom Tomato and Cucumber Salad    An excellent way to utilize any leftover tomatoes from last week’s bag!