Happy August, the summer is flying by!  Hope everyone is enjoying themselves and enjoying their bags of produce.  Please keep us updated with any comments/suggestions at either info@oahufresh.com or you can post on our Facebook page.

In this week’s bag we have:

• Maunawili Greens lettuce,
• Green Growers tomatoes,
• Nalo Farms Nalo mizuna
• Apple Bananas from Pit Farms,
• Kahuku Cornl from Pit Farms, &
• Long Beans from Ho Farms

Some of you may be wondering what mizuna is and what to do with it.  According to Wikipeida, its a vegetable with leaves that are green and yellow, smooth in texture and somewhat feathery in shape. It is available as a mature green or as a baby version that is smaller in size and more tender in texture. As a salad green mizuna can be steamed, boiled, stir-fried or used to complement other greens mixed together for a salad. When cooked it shrinks to about half its size so it takes a large amount to make a cooked vegetable dish containing only mizuna.

Spiced Fillet of Beef with Mizuna Salad – perfect with Big Island Beef!

Fresh Corn and Tomato Casserole

Glazed Chinese Long Beans

Aloha Everyone!!  This week’s bag is fantastic…tomatoes, lettuce, nalo greens, japanese cucumbers, sweet potatoes, papaya, and sweet thai basil.  Our farmers have lots of produce right now, and if you’ve been to any of the farmer’s markets lately, you have realized that this is the best season for local produce!  Here are a few ideas for you to use your produce in this week:

Thai Basil Pesto

Tomato and Mozzarella Salad

Nalo Greens and Heirloom Tomato Salad

Japanese Cucumber Salad

Grilled Sweet Potatoes

Enjoy this week’s bag, let us know what you make with your produce, and remember to check out our specialty items.  We now offer farm fresh eggs!!

bon apetit!

Bon apetit Oahu Fresh members!  This week’s bag brings you wonderful slicing tomatoes and haricot verts from Green Growers, pineapple, hydroponic lettuce, and spaghetti herb mix.  Here’s an menu that will use every item in the bag in one evening:

Linguine with Fresh Herbs

Chicken with Haricot Verts

Salad with lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber you may not need a salad recipe but if you do this one is EASY!

Grilled Pineapple add some vanilla ice cream…you’re done!!

enjoy!  

This week’s bag has a great new fruit in it:  lilikoi!  We are happy to have some of Kamaaina Land’s wonderful lilikoi for you this week, along with hydroponic lettuce, tomatoes, tatsoi, corn, and green onions.

Lilikoi, also known as passionfruit, is a tropical fruit found in many backyards in Hawaii.  There are many ways to incorporate lilikoi into your desserts, smoothies, cakes, or just by itself!  If you are not familiar with lilikoi, please take a look at this link for some background and ideas on how to eat it!

Lilikoi Butter from Lavalily…this looks like a really good blog.  Just discovered it, but I am sure to be back often!

Grilled Halibut with Tatsoi and Spicy Thai Chiles

Heirloom Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese Crumbles

A little bit about arugula… from Star Advertiser

Enjoying the recipes we post?  Let us know what you think and what you would like to see!

aloha!

July 4th greetings Oahu Fresh members!  Hope you had a wonderful holiday.  As summer progresses, more and more wonderful veggies are coming to us from our busy farmers.  This week’s bag is stellar:  lettuce, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, haricot verts, baby arugula, and bananas!  Here are a few ideas if you need inspiration.

Baby Arugula salad with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and chicken bonus:  at the bottom of this post, you will find several more links for arugula recipes!

Haricots verts with frisee and bacon You could search for frisee as called for in this recipe, or you could mix some of your hydroponic lettuce and baby arugula instead!

Haricots verts a la dijonnaise a simple salad with herbs, hard boiled egg yolk, and cucumber.

Jersey pizza with roasted garlic and arugula This recipe calls for making your own dough…not hard, but you could easily use a prepared crust or french bread.

Prosciutto and Fontina Panini with Arugula Pesto You could add a little lettuce and cherry tomatoes to this and one of the haricots verts salads on the side…& voila, you’re done!!

Stir fry eggplant and basil an easy recipe!

Ratatouille