Aloha everyone!  We have a great autumn bag this week.  You’ll be receiving lettuce, braising greens, swiss chard, sweet potatoes, organic papayas, and avocado.   Following are a few ideas on how you can use these items:

Swiss Chard, Sweet Potato, and Quinoa Gratin The reviews for this one are inconsisten, however all these items are tasty alone so good luck combining them!

Sweet Potato, Swiss Chard, & Black Bean Quesadillas Yummy sounding and there’s pictures…BONUS!!

Curried Lentils with Sweet Potato and Swiss Chard Classic NY Times recipe

Braised Greens and Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potato, Apple, & Braising Greens

Sweet & Tangy Braised Greens with Smoked Turkey Leg add this one to your day after Thanksgiving repertoire!

Aloha Oahu Fresh Clients!  This week’s bag items are sure to inspire you to cook something creative.

Tangy eggplant, long beans, and cherry tomatoes with roasted peanuts

Chicken, Long Bean, and Tomato Stir Fry

Mango Salad, Long Bean, Cherry Tomato, and Tamarind

Pineapple Chicken Stir Fry Although the recipe calls for canned pineapple, because it is unsweetened you can easily use the fresh pineapple.

Bacon Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes with seasoned cream cheese

Green Bean and Cherry Tomato Salad with Herb Dressing

Aloha Oahu Fresh clients!  We are happy to announce two changes to Oahu Fresh, and we hope you will enjoy them.  We will now be posting the weekly bag items on the homepage, so it will be very easy for you to see what’s coming in your bag each week.  We will continue to provide recipes for those items on a Recipes page.

Secondly we are going to be featuring island beef for purchase on our Specialty Items page!  The beef is coming from Kuahiwi Ranch in Ka’u on the Big Island.  Oahu Fresh will be starting off with ground chuck, stew meat, and sirloin.  These items will be available for purchase starting next week.  Please check back soon to buy some fresh local beef!!

Sauteed Kale from Bobby Flay

Kale and Adzuki Beans

Mustard Crusted Tofu with Kale and Sweet Potato

Island Kale and Sweet Potato Soup

Jicama Tofu Lettuce Wraps

Miso marinated Salmon with Cucumber Daikon Relish

This week’s bag is  Great!! You will be getting Maunawili Greens lettuce, Nalo Farms braising greens, a surprise herb from Pit Farms, Hauula tomatoes from Green Growers,  and red peppers and asparagus from Twinbridge Farms in Waialua.  Wednesday deliveries will also receive eggplant that was not delivered two weeks ago.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Twinbridge Farms, check out the following links to read more about their amazing story:

Hawaii Dept of Agriculture

Share Your Table

Honolulu Advertiser

Hana`Ai

Hawaii News Now

Recipes for this week’s produce:
Roasted Red Pepper Cream Sauce

How to Make Roasted Red Peppers

Cold Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Baked Asparagus with Balsamic Butter Sauce

Simple Braised Greens with Garlic

Asparagus Salad

Spinach and Red Pepper Salad

Fennel and Red Pepper Salad

We hope you enjoy this week’s produce! Please let us know about the recipes and meals you create with the items; we’d like to feature them in our newsletter or on our site!  Happy Halloween (enjoy the candy!) and watch out for the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!  (Shout out to my sis Heather, who watches that Peanuts show every year!!!  Happy Halloween H!!

Aloha Oahu Fresh Subscribers!  It’s almost Halloween, hope you’re stocking up on the candy for trick or treaters.  We have a fresh, healthy bag for you this week with two fruits and a lot of salad items!

From Maunawili Greens we’ll have some hydroponic lettuce which you can add to your Nalo Greens, from Nalo Farms.  They’ll also be providing a mixed herb bag, which will go well with your Ho Farms long beans.  Finally we’ll have some organic mango from Poamoho Organic Produce to pair with Pit Farms papaya.  This week we won’t have tomatoes; it just happens to be one of those rare weeks when our tomato producers are all in between harvests.  We’ll get those back as soon as possible!

Glazed Long Beans

Sweet n Sour Long beans

a perfect fall salad: Cranberry Walnut Baby Greens Salad with Goat Cheese

Baby Greens Salad with Salmon, Peas, and Mustard Viniagrette