Produce Box: 26 May 2011

This week's Produce Box came this morning with lots of yummy goodies to enjoy over the next few days:

- Tomatoes
- Yellow squash
- A cucumber
- Blueberries
- Pointed cabbage (Spitzkohl)
- Sweet potatoes
- Spring onions

I already have some ideas of what to do with this week's bounty. Maybe some squash fritters and gluten-free blueberry cobbler! We'll see :-)

This week's Produce Box November 17, 2010 (aka Kiwis grow in North Kakalaky)

Pardon for the delay, but it's been a rather insane week (again). This week's Produce Box was the last box of this year's growing season and included a special treat: NC grown kiwis! They are still ripening up in the bag, so I haven't had a chance to try them yet, but I bet they are delicious! I also now have a ton of beets for juicing and making a warm beets sauteed with fresh squeezed orange juice. The remainder of the items were green beans, eggplant, radishes and apple cider. The next Produce Box installment will be back in April. Until then I'll have more recipes and other things on my mind. As always, here's a few pics for you to enjoy. 

Beets, green beans, radishes, cider, eggplant, KIWIS!

Closeup of the Kakalaky kiwis!

Eat your greenies!

In last week's Produce Box I got a head of bok choy. Thankfully the newsletter included a couple of recipe ideas. Seeing that it was starting to wilt and needed to be eaten ASAP, I made a plate of oven roasted bok choy seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. I basically used the idea from newsletter but added garlic. It couldn't have been easier. I pulled off the individual leaves, then washed and dried them. Next I put them in a bowl and added olive oil, 2 pressed cloves of garlic, salt and pepper, and the juice of one lemon. Next I laid the leaves out on a greased cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil and baked at 450 for about 10 minutes. The result was delicious. What a nice, green afternoon snack! (Perfect before taking a light nap!)

This week's Produce Box November 10, 2010

Just a brief post with pics of yesterday's Produce Box. It's been so busy around here lately, it's hard to find time to blog - even those 15 minutes I'd hoped to find each day somehow keep escaping me. This week's box contained: Bok Choy, sweet potatoes, an eggplant, RASPBERRIES!!!, garlic (hidden under the radishes), red bell peppers, radishes, and a sample of candied pecans. I already used the bell peppers last night making stuffed peppers with leftover eggplant filling I froze from the last time I made the recipe a couple of weeks ago (recipe to follow soon). BTW: The raspberries are absolutely delicious!