Garden Box delivered August 19-20, 2015:
containing
Loose Carrots
Gala Apples
Green Beans
Yellow Squash
Mixed Color Bell Peppers
Yellow Peaches
Hydroponic Bibb Lettuce
Easy and moderate ways to use all the ingredients in your box this week.
Loose Carrots
- Easy: Wash, peel, and chop. You can eat these chopped up on salads, or cut into carrot sticks and dipped into hummus or some other dip.
- Moderate: Wash, and then turn into garlic roasted beauties using this recipe here.
Gala Apples:
- Easy: Wash and eat! Or, wash, slice, dunk in nut-butter and eat.
- Moderate: Baked apple chips. A simple example recipe can be found here.
Green Beans:
Yellow Squash:
- Easy: Sliced and Roasted
- Moderate: Brownie Bites, both recipes here.
Mixed Color Bell Peppers:
- Easy: Wash, slice and dunk in dressing or hummus.
- Moderate: Stuffed peppers, recipe here.
Yellow Peaches:
- Easy: Wash and eat!
- Moderate: Peach sorbet, recipe here.
Hydroponic Bibb Lettuce:
- Easy: Chop up in a salad or use the leaves on a sandwich.
- Moderate: Sauté vegetables and a protein of your choice and use leaves as lettuce wraps, an example can be found here.
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