Summer is winding down, but we’re bringing the fruits of summer to your door 🙂  This week’s bag will have Hauula tomatoes, Italian basil, mixed sweet peppers, Japanese cucumbers, hydroponic lettuce, and a mix of fruits–lilikoi, lime, and avocado.

What do you do with it all?  Here are a few of our favorite ideas:

Pasta Provencal with Basil, Sweet Peppers, Tomatoes, and Olives   Easy to put together and great to have on hand for a meal or a side.  Chilled white wine would be great, along with some Naked Cow Dairy feta cheese!

Cucumber Tomato Basil Salad with Arugula and Bok Choy flowers   It may be difficult to find the flowers this recipe suggests, so either leave them out or add arugula leaves instead.

An easy lunch or snack…Toasted Avocado Tomato Basil Sandwich

Chilled Cucumber soup   The last time I had extra cucumbers I made this soup…and ate it for dinner and breakfast the next day.  It’s that good, especially in hot weather!

Ono!  Let us know what you create…info@oahufresh.com.  Aloha til next week!

Aloha Oahu Fresh Members!  We’re heading into the last weeks of summer but this week’s bag is still full of sun ripened fruits and veggies to keep you healthy and eating local! We’ve got mixed herbs, avocados, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, hydroponic lettuce, & braising greens to fill your plate this week.  A great way to use these items is in a big salad-almost everything in this week’s bag can be used in one meal.  For some ideas on how to make that happen see below, and enjoy!

Salad Nicoise   This is a French inspired salad which is traditionally made with tuna, anchovies, potatoes, green beans, and a vinaigrette.  You can make a similar dish with your bag items this week, substituting as you see fit.

Garlic and Herb Grilled Sweet Potato Fries

Braised Greens and Sausage Soup Recipe   This makes me think of a summer day outside with a beer…

Wurtz avocados are in the bag this week, from a farm on the North Shore.  Many people say this is one of the best tasting avocados available.  Let us know what you think!

A great bag is on it’s way this week:  nalo greens, lilikoi, swiss chard, butternut squash, hydroponic lettuce, slicing tomatoes, and green onions!

A few recipe ideas to use your fresh veggies in this week:

Rustic Chard and Tomato Tart    This does call for a pie crust (uncooked) so you can pick up one in the dairy/freezer section or be ambitious and make your own.

Caramelized Butternut Squash   This recipe calls for 2 butternut squash, so halve the ingredients if you are only using the one in your bag.

Baby Greens Salad with Almonds and Strawberries   Use blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, or whatever fruit you like on this salad!

Roy’s Lilikoi Shrimp Salsa   Roy serves this salsa with seared ahi; you can choose whatever fish or chicken you would like!  If you don’t have a fine sieve as the recipe calls for to push the lilikoi pulp through, improvise with your colander, a strainer, or even a slotted spoon!

Enjoy this week’s delicious bag and please let us know what you like and what you cooked– Aloha!

Wow, can you believe it’s August already?!  I feel like I’m right in the middle of summer, but school is already back in session and now you can tell the days are certainly a little bit shorter.  But there’s still 4 weeks of summer sweetness left, so get to the beach, that hike or camping trip you’ve been thinking about, or just sit outside and enjoy the setting summer sun.  Soon enough it’ll be cooler and rainier, and you’ll be glad you have these memories!

This week’s bag is the epitome of a sweet summer day.  You’ll be getting italian basil and roma tomatoes, perfect for that caprese salad you’ve been craving for the beginning of your sunset dinner!  And you’ll enjoy the string beans and swiss chard, maybe with something wonderful on the grill?  Lettuce will provide a perfect cup for your thinly sliced veggies for a healthy light lunch, and finally lilikoi will be the perfect after meal finish, perhaps scooped out and eaten with a papaya.  Hope you enjoy those ideas, and if you’re looking for more direction, take a peek at the following recipes.  Bon Apetit and make the most out of these summer days!

Lilikoi  bars

Caprese Salad   The most amazing pictures accompany this post; they made my mouth water while reading it.

Green Bean salad with red onion

Lettuce Wrap Ideas   Plenty of ideas for ways to fill your lettuce wraps!

Creamy Chard with Bacon and Mushrooms   You will have to halve this recipe as you won’t have 5 cups of chard but the recipe sounds delish!!

Happy Local Eating Oahu Fresh Members!

 

Bon Apetit Oahu Fresh Members!  We’re excited to bring you a bag of wonderful locally grown fresh produce this week…and we have some great fruits for you in the bag too.  This week’s fruit comes from the North Shore farm Kama`aina Land, and it’s organically grown lilikoi and limes.  You’ll also get some long beans from Ho Farms, green onions and tomatoes from Green Growers, sweet potatoes from Mililani Ag Park, and hydroponic lettuce from 808 Fresh.

If you’re pressed for time, we have some suggestions to make cooking a meal made from locally grown ingredients easier, just see below!

Sweet Potato Salad   This sweet potato salad is easy-few ingredients and it’s just a bit on the non traditional side.

Beef with Chinese Green Beans   A simple dinner idea!

Spicy Tempura Sweet Potato

Lime Chicken Soft Tacos   This is another easy dinner and uses your limes and green onions.  You can saute the long beans to go alongside or make the sweet potato salad for a  local meal.