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This Week’s Box Featuring Pineapple from Maui Pineapple – Week of February 21

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Featured Item: Pineapple from Maui Pineapple

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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.prepare_pineapple

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

Recipes 

Pineapple Chicken

What else is in the bag?


Avocado
Kamaaina Land Nursery

Bok Choy
Kahumana Organic Farm & Cafe

Lettuce
Kunia Country Farms

Napa Cabbage
Aloun Farms

Pineapple
Maui Gold Pineapple Company

String Beans
Ma’alae’a Farms

Try out these recipes!

Hawaiian Sweet Corn with Spam and Pineapple
Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

This Week’s Box Featuring Avocados – Week of January 3

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This week we have avocados from Adaptations

Preparation

How to cut or slice avocados in half:

1. Be sure to fully wash before cutting or slicing.

2. Place the avocado lengthwise on a secure surface.

3. Hold the avocado securely with one hand, and slice slowly down the center lengthwise around the seed, starting at the narrower end.

4. Holding the avocado in the palm of one hand, use your other hand to twist and rotate the two halves apart.

5. Use a teaspoon to remove the stone from the center of the avocado. Use a dessert spoon to scoop the whole avocado flesh out from the shell if required. Cut into slices, chunks, or mash with a fork.

How to peel an avocado:

1. For ripe Hass Avocados, the outer skin or peel is easy to remove. Simply slice the avocado in half or cut into wedges as shown in photo. Then grasp the outer dark layer or skin and pull it away from the inner green flesh of the fruit. If some of the darker almost black portions of the skin remain on the green flesh of the fruit, simply cut them away. The yellow to green portions of the avocado are what you want. Do not consume the peel.

What else is in the bag?


Avocado
Kamaaina Land Nursery

Kale
Ho Farms

Mixed Tomatoes
Sugarland

Sweet Potato
Twin Bridge Farms

Swiss Chard
Kahumana Organic Farm & Cafe

Tangerine
Adaptations

Zucchini
Aloun Farms

Try out these recipes!

Avocado Banana Bread
Garlic Sautéed Swiss Chard with Egg and Avocado

This Week’s Box Featuring Avocado – Week of October 25

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This week, we have Avocados

Now sometimes lovingly known as the avo, avocados are divided into three categories: West Indian, Guatemalan, and Mexican. Thanks to cross-pollination, however, there are hundreds of hybrids with varying characteristics, and in the islands, trees produce some of the biggest, best avocados in the world. Here’s why: The microclimates and supreme soils result in larger fruits with larger amounts of healthy oils, like polyunsaturated fatty acids, minerals, and nutrients.

Hawaii’s main avocado export is the Sharwil (a cross between Mexican and Guatemalan types)—but only recently. Just within the past five years, the United States Department of Agriculture lifted an embargo from 1992, which banned this island cultivar from reaching the mainland. Prized for its buttery flavor and small pit, this breed of avocado grows especially well in the Kona district of Big Island. But different regions bear different fruit—so there’s plenty to choose from.

Avocados are a source of vitamins C, E, K, and B6, as well as riboflavin, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid, magnesium, and potassium. They also provide lutein, beta carotene, and omega-3 fatty acids. Avocados contain high levels of healthy, beneficial fats, which can help a person feel fuller between meals.

Preparation

How to cut or slice avocados in half:

  1. Be sure to fully wash before cutting or slicing.
  2. Place the avocado lengthwise on a secure surface.
  3. Hold the avocado securely with one hand, and slice slowly down the center lengthwise around the seed, starting at the narrower end.
  4. Holding the avocado in the palm of one hand, use your other hand to twist and rotate the two halves apart.
  5. Use a teaspoon to remove the stone from the center of the avocado. Use a dessert spoon to scoop the whole avocado flesh out from the shell if required. Cut into slices, chunks, or mash with a fork.

 

 

What else is in the bag?


Avocado
Kamaaina Land Nursery

Bok Choy
Kahumana Organic Farm & Cafe

Green Onion
Green Grower’s

Lettuce
Kunia Country Farms

Pineapple
Maui Gold Pineapple Company

Rambutan
OK Farms

Try out these recipes!

Avocado Banana Bread
Leafy Green Sesame Salad

 

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