Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Order for Friday, August 28th, 2009

Regular Share

Avocadoes – FL (except Redlands where it will be a bonus item only)

Broccoli

Celery

Green cabbage

Carrots

Spinach (Coral Gables gets Arrugula)

Ginger

Cucumber – FL

Red Leaf Lettuce

Red Romaine Lettuce

Cremini mushrooms

Grape tomatoes – FL

Sweet Potatoes

Kiwi

Bananas

Cantaloupe

Peaches

Fruit Share


Honeydew

Pineapple

Ruby Grapefruit

Nectarines (Redlands), Pears (Cutler Bay), Muscadine Grapes, FL(Coral Gables)


Ask your host about our raw milk opportunity.


Other extras available include smoked fish dip (Mahi and Salmon)
Eggs (FL) and local honey (orange blossom and saw palmetto).

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Avocado and Watercress Salad

  • 1/4 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned)
  • 1 tablespoon grated sweet onion such as Vidalia or Walla Walla (use large holes of a box grater)
  • 1/4 cup finely grated peeled Gala apple (use small holes of box grater)
  • 4 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 6 cups watercress (thin stems and leaves only; from 1 large bunch)
  • 1 firm-ripe avocado

Stir together vinegar, onion, apple, soy sauce, and sugar until sugar has dissolved, then stir in oil.

Just before serving, toss watercress with enough dressing to coat. Quarter, pit, and peel avocado, then cut crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Gently toss with watercress.

Cooks' notes: ·Watercress can be trimmed 1 day ahead and chilled in a sealed bag lined with damp paper towels.
·Dressing can be made 2 days ahead and chilled, covered. Stir or shake before using.


Martha's notes:  We had this with dinner tonight and it was wonderful!   I did not have rice vinegar, but used wine vinegar in its place. Watercress is a rich source of Vit. C, Vit. A, calcium and iron.  Only four of us ate the entire bunch of watercress made into this salad, but we only needed half the dressing this recipe made to sufficiently dress the greens.  My husband even said it was quite good (and he doesn't always go for the unusual foods.)  I told him you could only get a salad like this in the finest of restaurants! 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Order for Friday, August 14th, 2009

We hope you have all had a great summer! Please remember to bring us your blue bags and any clean plastic bags you can donate. Your host will appreciate it. If you haven't signed our customer form, please ask your host about that. We're doing our best to keep our records up to date. Thanks for all your help . . . and for letting your host know any way in which you can be of help to her.

Let your host know if you are interested in FL organic eggs from free range hens, local orange blossom and saw palmetto honey, and smoked salmon and mahi fish dips.

We look forward to seeing you this Friday!

Cyndi and Martha

(updated 8/13 at 4 pm)

Regular Share:

Avocadoes (FL)

Broccoli

Green Beans

Carrots

Watercress (FL) (Doral gets savoy spinach)

2 heads of Lettuce

Yellow onions

Roma Tomatoes

Russet Potatoes

Eggplant (FL)

Blueberries

Bananas

Pluots

Canteloupe

Fruit Share:

Yellow nectarines

Strawberries

Flame Seedless Grapes

Valencia Oranges