Aloha Oahu Fresh members!  We are enjoying a wonderful summer and hope you are too!  This week’s bag will have yummy greens, sun ripened tomatoes, and…(keep your fingers crossed!)… dragonfruit!!  We apologize for last week’s disappointment; the farmer was unable to get dragonfruit to us but we’re trying again this week!  Enjoy 🙂

Avocado, Corn, & Baby Arugula Salad This recipe is easy but calls for a lot of arugula…so if you are making this with what you are getting in your bag, cut the recipe ingredients by quarters.

Shrimp with Baby Penne & Baby Arugula Uses your tomatoes too!

Balsamic Marinated Cherry Tomatoes Local girl food blog!!

Greetings Oahu Fresh members!  This summer is turning up some wonderful weather and great local food.  Your bag this week will showcase some delicious fruit, healthy salad items, and nutritious taro.  We hope you will enjoy it–I for one am looking forward to eating locally again after returning from a vacation last week in Prague.  Prague is a beautiful city and the beer is wonderful, but they could use a few more veggies on the plate along with all that sausage!!

For those of you looking for an easier way to enjoy your fresh taro:  Oven Baked Taro Chips

The proper way to treat an heirloom:  Mark Bittman’s take on the less is more approach to summer tomatoes.

Spicy Grilled Chicken and Green Onions This recipe is fast! And a great side dish to have with it would be Sesame Choy Sum.

We hope you enjoy this week’s bag…as always, find us on Facebook or Twitter and let us know how we’re doing!  You can also email us at info@oahufresh.com.

bon apetit!!!

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!