Here’s what to look for in this week’s Local Box:
Check below for this week’s delivery schedule update if your delivery day is Thursday!
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Tagged: apple, Bibb lettuce, carrot, collard greens, crimini mushroom, daikon radish, Japanese turnip, shallot, spinach, tangerine, tomato
This week, you can expect your Local Box (or any other Greenling) delivery on the same day you always get it UNLESS that day is Thursday OR if your delivery day is Wednesday AND you live in San Antonio. Here are the details:
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It’s a truly merry-making Local Box this week, with lots of greens and oranges and apples, too! I’m looking forward to catching my breath when the festivities will have died down in a couple of days. Then I’m sure I’ll find this bounty inspiring! Until then, my hubby’s planning on making a greens soup of some kind for dinner this evening.Rumore has it, there’ll be brie involved, too! I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, let us know how you plan to eat out of your Local Box for the holidays this year!
Best wishes to all!
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Tagged: apple, greens, orange
Full disclosure: I’m not a Jew. But I embrace any holiday that has a good message and, um, good food. We’d stocked up quite a collection of Local Box potatoes, so yesterday I broke all the rules I’ve read about making latkes (things like hand-grating, then saving water that drains off and straining out the starch to mix back in) and threw all the potatoes I had left into the food processor with a Local Box red onion, then mixed with some egg whites that had been in the fridge forever (leftover from… Key-lime pie, perhaps?) but were, miraculously, still good. In the meantime, I chopped up a few Local Box apples, then tossed those in a pot with a pat of butter (why? no idea.), then allowed them to simmer while I pan-fried the latkes in butter and canola oil. I mashed up the apples with a big wooden spoon when they were soft, and sprinkled a bit of salt over them. We dolloped sour cream alongside latkes and applesauce to serve, and the results were quite pleasing. Over dinner, we talked about miracles and light and perserverence and the wonderful things faith inspires.
Happy Hanukkah!
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Tagged: apple, onion, potato
Here’s the plan for this week’s Local Boxes:
Also, we’re on a modified delivery schedule this week. Here’s the scoop:
In the Austin area, if your normal delivery day is:
And in San Antonio, if your normal delivery day is:
How are you planning to eat out of your Local Box for the holidays this year?
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Tagged: apple, cilantro, collard greens, crimini mushroom, grapefruit, green onion, herbs, kale, lettuce, radish, sweet potato, tangerine
Green and orange, the colors of Texas winter, are here! This week, I plan to try the kale salad recipe included in today’s Local Box. And I think I have enough oranges for a batch of marmalade! (I’ve used the Meyer-lemon marmalade recipe with oranges, instead, to great effect.) I’m happy to see dill because it will go great with last week’s carrots, which are a little limp by now but should still taste great cooked. I’m planning to try some sauerkraut with this week’s and last week’s cabbage. Does anyone have experience making that? I’ve heard it’s surprisingly simple.
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Tagged: cabbage, carrot, dill, kale, orange
My favorite polenta trick – and this is big, the kind of thing I hope my as-yet nonexistent kids will one day tell their kids – is to pack leftover polenta into a plastic or glass container and smooth it over before refrigerating. This is the starting point for a brilliant leftover meal: Pan-fried polenta. Last night, the husband stopped off at Mandola’s on his way home from work and picked up some of their house-made, Sicilian-style fennel sausage. (It’s made from pork out of Bryan, so it’s another ultra-local product.) Then he pan-fried some of our leftover polenta – which, if you recall, was studded with Local Box butternut squash – in one pan, and sauteed some Local Box baby bok choy with garlic in another, browning the sausage in another pan at the same time. Dinner came together in minutes and was scrumptious – another warming meal for a surprisingly chilly Texas night!
What did you eat out of your Local Box last night?
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Tagged: baby bok choy, butternut squash
Baby, it’s cold outside! Without any dinner plans last night and the furnace working hard to keep the house at a mere 62 degrees, I improvised from last week’s Local Box. I brought water to a boil and whisked in polenta, then added diced butternut squash I’d roasted last week. In the meantime, I rinsed last week’s mixed greens and sauteed them in a bit of butter and garlic. When the polenta looked done, I grated in some Grana Padano cheese and stirred in a tablespoon of butter. We scooped the polenta into bowls and topped with the greens, then let the warmth flow all the way down to our bellies.
What are you eating from your Local Box to keep warm?
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Tagged: butternut squash, greens
This picture doesn’t do it justice, so you’ll have to take my word for it: Borscht is really beautiful. And your body thinks so, too – it’s loaded with healthful nutrients. I like to go ahead and roast my Local Box beets as soon as I get them so they’re ready to go. Then, we can whip up a batch of borscht in a snap. There are many different recipes out there. We had good luck with this one recently. It was a great way to use some Local Box onion, carrots, apple, and dill, too!
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Tagged: apple, beet, carrot, dill, onion
Here’s what she’s got planned for this week’s Local Boxes:
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Tagged: apple, baby spinach, cilantro, collard greens, grapefruit, herbs, kale, lettuce, orange, radish
