Soak up the summer rays everyone because it’s back to school time!   Hopefully that means it will be cooler weather soon too…which will be good for you and also for our wonderful variety of green produce that we have been missing while it’s been so hot.  This week you will receive either swiss chard or butternut squash from Ho Farms, because the weather hasn’t been too helpful for growing green leafy things, so we’ve only been able to get a few bunches at a time.  Everyone will have long beans from Ho Farms too, Hauula tomatoes from Green Growers, lilikoi and avocados from Uluwehi Farms, mixed organic keiki greens from Kahumana Farm, and baby daikon and red radishes from Pacific Gateway Farmers in Kunia.  What will you do with all this produce?  We always like to see your creations so please send recipes, ideas, and suggestions to us via email or our facebook page.  It’s virtual potluck!

Tropical Salad with Avocado and Lilikoi Dressing   You may wish to sub in a few items from the bag this week to make this salad, like using the organic greens then adding steamed long beans in place of the green papaya.

Butternut Squash with Walnut Goat Cheese Crumble

Long Bean Omelette Recipe

Sliced Tomatoes with Parmesan Cheese   baked, looks delicious!

Pan Fried Daikon Cake   These baby daikon will be small and great to eat raw in salads or on the side but if you want to try something different this recipe looks great!

 

 

Hi Oahu Fresh members!  This week’s bag is hot (as in awesome!), just like our weather lately (not so awesome)!  We’re hoping to cool you off though by bringing your bag full of refreshing locally grown food.  We have eggplant and kirby cucumbers from Ho Farms, local bananas, roma tomatoes, and avocado from Pacific Gateway Farmers, Tahitian Limes from Hoalike Farm, and mixed organic keiki greens from Kahumana Farm.   And be warned–it’s been so hot that greens  in some areas, especially lettuces, are just not making it- so the items you will find in this week’s bag are hot weather friendly.  But we’ve got some recipes in mind to help you transition from “melting” to cool, calm, and collected, so stay tuned and find a comfy spot to relax while your temperature drops!

Tahitian Limeade   Use your Tahitian limes and find a shady breezy spot on the lanai for sipping.

Tilapia Ceviche   I know you can find locally raised tilapia, so here you go–a local ceviche recipe!  (and you can omit the mayo and use an avocado spread instead)

Smoky Eggplant and White Bean Dip

Roasted Eggplant and Tomatoes with Tangy Cucumber and Yogurt

Rum-Coconut Banana Bread   Just in case you don’t eat all of your bananas before they get too ripe…

Vinaigrette for Green Salad   This is an easy dressing that you can mix up in a jar with a lid so you can store it.  So easy, and no worries  if you don’t have champagne vinegar, just use a little apple cider, red, or balsamic and adjust to your taste.

 

 

Oahu Fresh members, how are you?  Well we hope, and excited for another bag this week with tasty local goodies.  I was looking online tonight for something about celebrating mid August, something that I could center this post about and I found that there’s a film called Mid August Lunch!  And it happens to be an Italian film, so there’s definitely going to be a lot of food involved!  I think I’ll watch it soon and verify.  If you’re interested check out the plot summary here.

Anyway, this got me to thinking about a few recipes for this week’s bag that are based on a leisurely lunch, stretching out over hours, with family and friends, Italian style!  Or French, Czech…you could name almost any group and this scenario might apply.  So with that in mind, what follows are a few recipes to get you in the mood for a nice local lunch, using your bag contents for this week!  We will be bringing you organic mixed baby greens and kalamungay (malungaay) leaves from Kahumana Farm, swiss chard and tomatoes from Ho Farms, long beans, radishes, and cucumbers from Pacific Gateway Farmers in Kunia, and avocados from Uluwehi Farm.

Some lunch ideas…

Corn and Malungaay Soup

Tomato, Onion, Avocado Salad

Avocado BLT with Spicy Mayo and Fried Egg   WOW!  I want to eat this right now…

Scallops with Swiss Chard and Polenta   an elegant idea for lunch for two maybe!

Cold Cucumber Soba

and finally, Greek Salad as it’s prepared and eaten in Greece.  Nanette G passed this link on to me and I’ve eaten this salad for dinner two nights out of three so far…IT. IS. WONDERFUL.

A little bit about Malungaay…malungaay is the term used in the Philippines for the moringa tree.  Leaves can be eaten in salads, soups, stews, and as a tea.  There are numerous health benefits attributed to malungaay, and it is known to have high doses of various vitamins, is considered to be anti inflammatory, and very nutritious.

Aloha everyone!   Are you soaking in the last bit of summer? –maybe it’s not really the last but it seems so with school starting back up already.  This week we’re bringing you a bag that we are super excited about.  We hope that spending some time in the kitchen with this wonderful produce will help get you relaxed and ready for whatever the next few weeks bring!

This week we’ll have tomatoes, romano beans, and peppers from Pacific Gateway Farmers in Kunia, fresh and crispy lettuce from 808FarmFresh in Waimanalo, organic beets from Kahumana Farm in Waianae, green eggplant from Ho Farms, and lilikoi from Uluwehi Farm in Pupukea.  Wow!!  Super good selection from our farmer partners this week–thank you!

Braised Romano beans with Cherry Tomatoes

Garlicky Romano Beans   This recipe has several links for other mouth watering recipes for those romano beans- scroll to the end!

Farro Salad with Tomatoes and Romano Beans

Pan Roasted Shishito Peppers

Raw Beet Salad   The beets in this week’s bag are going to be small, so what better way to use them than raw, in a wonderful salad that you can put together quickly.  This recipe also lists a few other variations you can try.

Grated Raw Beet Salad   This will help utilize your lettuce too–even though the recipe calls for romaine, you can certainly substitute your mixed lettuces from 808FarmFresh!

Happy local eating everyone!

 

Happy Summer everyone!  We hope you survived Tropical Depression Flossie and didn’t have too much rain or wind damage.  Luckily it seems that O`ahu was spared and we haven’t heard too much from our farmer partners yet so we’re keeping our fingers crossed that we were lucky this time.

This week we’ve got a nice bag for you with some hefty produce.  Since we went heavy on the greens last week we thought we’d take a break from those this week.  You will find two avocados, 2 japanese cucumbers, long beans, long squash, tomatoes, and mixed lettuces in this week’s delivery.

Long squash is a vegetable that holds up well if you leave it out, so don’t feel rushed to use it right away.  It is a great addition to soups and since you also have long beans and tomatoes I would recommend finding a soup recipe to take advantage of.  If you don’t want to look for one, here’s our suggestions!

Tomato Green Bean Soup   You can easily add your long squash to this, cut into chunks or even diced.  It could replace the carrot or put it in as an addition!

Creamy Green Bean and Potato Soup   This is another one you can add your diced long squash to.  Also consider using pork belly or even chicken instead of bacon.

Homemade Pickle Relish   An easy way to utilize a few cucumbers, and perfect for taking to the beach for your cook-out.

Avocado Hummus Cucumber Bites   A fresh way to think about how to eat dips!

Soba Noodle Salad with Cucumber and Mango

Fresh Tomato Juice   in case you have too many tomatoes or are tired of slicing them…