The tomatillo also known as the husk tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family. The plant bears small, spherical, green or greenish/purple fruit.

Tomatillos look very much like green, unripe tomatoes. They are wrapped around with a dry, leafy husk. The color of the fruit is a beautiful bright green, which fades a bit once you cook them. These fruits have a slightly more acidic, a little less sweet flavor than traditional tomatoes. The flavor is more generally vegetal and the interior texture is denser and less watery than a tomato.

Prepping a tomatillo is very easy! The husks can be easily removed with your hands and discarded. Be sure to do a  quick rinse under warm water. There are many ways to enjoy tomatillos. They can be enjoyed raw, cooked with your favorite dishes, roasted, grilled or sautéed.

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Kale is a vegetable with green or purple leaves, in which the central leaves do not form a head.  Kale can be curly, flat, or even have a bluish tint mixed in with the green. It contains essential vitamins A, C and K as well as minerals like copper, potassium, iron, manganese and phosphorus.

Preparation

Check out this video to see how to prep your kale

Farms that grow kale

Shawn’s Farms

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Broccolini is a green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and longer, thin stalks. It is a natural hyrbrid of broccoli and the Chinese vegetable gai lan.

Preparation

The entire vegetable (leaves, young stems, unopened flower shoots, and flowers) is consumable. Its flavor is sweet, with notes of both broccoli and asparagus.

Common cooking methods include sauteeing, steaming, boiling, and stir frying!

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Papaya is native to the tropics of the Americas in the regions of southern Mexico and Central America. The papaya is a tree-like plant that can grow over 30 feet tall. The fruit is a type of berry and when ripe it feels soft and the skin turns an amber to orange hue.

Papaya plants grow in three sexes: male, female, and hermaphrodite. The male produces only pollen, never fruit. The female will produce small, inedible fruits unless pollinated. The hermaphrodite can self-pollinate because its flowers contain both male stamens and female ovaries. As a result almost all commercial papaya orchards contain only hermaphrodite papaya plants.

Preparation:

Papayas are often eaten raw. The fruit is cut in half and the seeds removed. The flesh can be scooped out or cut into wedges.

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The pineapple is an amazing low-calorie, fat free, cholesterol free, low-sodium fruit that is one of very few edible members of the bromeliad family. Its formation is curious in that each scale of the pineapple is actually an individual berry, and these berries fuse together around the central core of the fruit. When it comes to their nutrition content, pineapples contain high amounts of Vitamin C, manganese, are a great aid for digestion because of the dietary fiber they offer. It’s also a great source for energy, thanks to its thiamin content, which is a variety of B Vitamin.

Preparation

1. Lay the fruit on its side and, grasping it firmly with one hand, slice off the leafy crown and the base with a large, sharp knife.
2. Stand the pineapple on end and slice off the prickly rind in seven or eight downward strokes, cutting deep enough each time to remove the eyes.
3. Divide the fruit into quarters, and cut the triangular section of core away from each quarter.
4. Lay each quarter on its side and slice it crosswise into wedges of the desired thickness.

If you want rings, you are going to have to get a Corer tool so that you can remove the core!

Farms that grow Pineapples

Maui Pineapple Company

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