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• Farm Trip Thanksgiving 2012
  Thanksgiving week for beachgreens is usually very hectic.  We squeeze 3 days of deliveries into 1 day (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving).  This year, in an effort to be ultra prepared, I gathered some produce before the market that we generally go to on Wednesday mornings.  I decided to make it a fun farm field trip. [...]
  
  
• Preserving Summer’s Bounty
  This time of year the amount of produce we have available to us is absolutely plentiful. And sometimes while preparing dinner it seems like I can never possibly stand to look at another tomato or zucchini or eggplant or pepper, I know that soon enough summer’s bounty will be a distant memory. One of the [...]
  
  
• Summer Cooking with beachgreens
  Summer is one of my favorite times to cook.  There is so much abundance in the summer, recipes are not needed, just a few fresh ingredients, 20 minutes, and voila! a delicious summer meal. This is a Romano Bean Salad that I made the other night. Romano Beans are a heartier version of the more [...]
  
  
• A Trip to Burkart Organics Farm
  At the end of March 2012, we took a trip to the Central Valley to visit Burkart Organics.  We have been buying fruit from the farm for the last 4 years.  Located in Dinuba, just south and east of Fresno, the farm is in a beautiful setting.  With the stunning Sequoias in the background, this [...]
  
  
• Chard with Pine Nuts and Feta Cheese
  This is a simple dish using only a few fresh ingredients.  Below is pictured some spring onions from Jaime Farms, and red chard from my garden.  This dish can be made with any type of chard, or spinach.  The recipe for this dish can be found here. I start by separating the chard stems from [...]
  
  
• Sweet Potato Hash
  This is one of my favorite ways to cook sweet potatoes, and regular potatoes too.  I just never get tired of it!   While heating a large cast iron skillet (12″ size), over medium-high heat, I start by cutting 2 sweet potatoes into small cubes:   Once the cast iron pan is heated, I throw [...]
  
  
• Turkish Style Braised Leeks (or how to clean leeks)
  This leek dish is one of my all time favorites. It’s quick and simple and delicious.  (For the actual recipe, go here.)  I think people are often intimidated by leeks, or don’t know what to do with them, partly because they need a good cleaning.   I like to start by chopping off the root end [...]
  
  
• Sweet Potato and Peanut Stew
  Last week was the 1st week we bought sweet potatoes for beachgreens deliveries, and I wanted to do something special to highlight them.  After searching around for a recipe for a couple of days online, I decided to open my good old Joy of Cooking.   Well loved and very reliable.  I happened upon this sweet [...]
  
  
• Winter Squash
  Adapted from: http://www.cookusinterruptus.com/index.php?video_id=73 It is fall, and the season of hard winter squash is here!  Besides being a beautiful decoration, the many varieties of winter squashes we send throughout the season in deliveries are highly edible, delicious and nutritious!  They have a huge amount of vitamin A, as well as Vitamin C, as well as [...]
  
  
• Fall is Here!
  And with a dramatic uncharacteristic rainstorm, fall arrives here in Long Beach.  This week in the boxes we still have a lot of warm weather items. Melons, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes all still taste delicious.  Hard Winter squashes are just starting to trickle in, but I will hold off including them in most of the boxes [...]