Hey Oahu Fresh members! This week’s bag will contain a wonderfully juicy bag of tangerines!

We’ll also be bringing you Ho Farms cherry tomatoes, long squash, and either kale, swiss chard, or collard greens, Nalo Farms tatsoi, and Khamphout Farms chinese parsely

If you don’t know what you can do with your produce, below we’ve listed a few ideas.  Bon Apetit!

Tatsoi Stir Fry or Tatsoi Salad

Southeast Asian Squash Curry This recipe calls for butternut but long squash has a very subtle flavor and would also work here.

Red Lentil and Squash Curry Stew also uses butternut but I think long squash would be great!

Whole Foods Market Kale Salad Recipe

Warm Cherry Tomato Salad

Aloha Oahu Fresh members!

We are uber excited to bring you fresh eggs this week!  Although fresh local eggs are a specialty item that are usually available only by special order, this week we are lucky to have eggs from Peterson’s Upland Egg Farm in abundance, and so we are bringing them to you as a regular bag item.  Please let us know what you think.

We are also happy to bring you some wonderful greens, such as Shanghai pak choy and swiss chard, roma tomatoes, avocado, and Ewa onions.  This bag has the ingredients to make some wonderful meals, and below we’ll provide you with some recipes and ideas on what you can do with your produce.

Chard and Onion Omelet This is a large omelet, serving 4-6, so cut the ingredients a bit if you are making for just one or two.  It would be a great breakfast on the weekend, or a simple but elegant dinner with a salad.

Choy Sum and Sausage Stir Fry YUM!  Try the pak choy here for a switch

Insalata Caprese: Roma Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil Salad A classic, and very easy to put together.  This salad is always best with fresh, room temperature tomatoes; I am always disappointed when I order it and the tomatoes are cold from having been refrigerated.  Leave them on the counter!

Chopped Egg and Avocado Sandwich

Bon Apetit!

Aloha Oahu Fresh members!  This week we are pleased to again bring you some new items in your Oahu Fresh bag.  You’ll be receiving collard greens, daikon, mint, lettuce, tomatoes, taro, and tangerine.

Collard greens may be familiar to some of you, especially if you are originally from the mainland or if you have eaten at Soul Patrol in Kaimuki!  If you are not familiar with them, you will find some easy tips and recipes below for cooking and enjoying them. Collards are very nutritious, with plenty of vitamin K, A, C, folate, and manganese.  For more specific information on their nutritional value, see the World’s Healthiest Foods_Collards.  Collard greens are also well known for their anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.

Collards are similar to cabbage leaves.  Tips for cooking them include thorough washing, cutting the leaves to equal sized pieces, so that they cook at the same rate, and not overcooking them which tends to make them bitter and sulfurous.

Kickin’ Collard Greens

Sauteed Collard Greens easy, and few ingredients!

Spicy Southern Collard Greens with Sweet Maple Cornbread

Taro Cakes savory taro cakes with ahi!!

Taro Coconut Tapioca Dessert

We hope you enjoy this week’s bag, and we certainly hope you’ll be willing to share your recipes with us!  You can easily do so by commenting on our Oahu Fresh  facebook page.

Mahalo and bon apetit!

Aloha Oahu Fresh members!  For the first week of February we’re bringing you a new item from a new farmer.  We’re excited to introduce micro greens into our produce rotation, courtesy of Drylands Nursery in Mililani.  We will also have japanese cucumber, cherry tomatoes, papaya, swiss chard, and braising greens this week.

Micro greens have become popular in recent years, but are often confused with sprouts.  In fact, sprouts are grown differently, in water, and usually harvested in their entirety.  Micro greens are grown from the seeds of vegetables and herbs in soil (or other media) and are harvested  when very young, maybe two weeks.  At this point they have up to two sets of true leaves, and are cut but not pulled out of the ground.  Sprouts are germinated seeds which are grown in water and exposed to low levels of light.

Micro greens have intense flavor and should be added to a salad or used with other foods with strong flavors.  They are fragile though so a salad dressing that’s light would work well with them.  Try this one, it’s easy and has only three ingredients:

Lemon Honey Salad Dressing

For your other produce, here are a few ideas:

Swiss Chard and Bacon

Creamy Braising Greens soup

Tomato Cucumber Salad

Wow!  What a bag this week–okra, romas, nalo greens, chinese parsely, pineapple, sweet potatoes, tangerines and clementines!

What are you going to do with all this great tasting, locally grown, delivered right to you produce?  Here are a few ideas:

Smoked Sausage and Okra Dirty Rice

Grilled Okra with Smoked Paprika Shallot Dip

Pickled Okra–I like pickled or smoked okra in Bloody Marys!

Mashed Okinawan Sweet Potatoes

Okinawan Sweet Potato and Coconut Rice Pudding a you tube video –so you can easily make this one!!

Use your Nalo greens, chinese parsley, and romas to make a salad then make this Spicy Pineapple Dressing to go over it!

Bon Apetit Oahu Fresh Members!  Thank you for your support!