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December CSA

Collard Greens are here!  Dark leafy greens are a great source of iron, vitamin C, chlorophyll and fiber.  Simply saute for a dose of feel-good wellness!

This month your CSA box or bag may include a combination of the following:

Georgia Collards
Northern Lights Swiss Chard
Red Ace Beets
Green Onions
Valencia Oranges
Meyer Lemons
Long Stem Cilantro
Green and/or Red Lettuce


Scarlet Nantes Carrots

Csa's for the week of November 16, 2011

BOX
Variety of lettuce Heads
pomegranates
oranges
cilantro
basil
peppers
jalapenos
butternut squash

BAG
lettuce
pomegranates
oranges
cilantro
basil
peppers
jalapenos
butternut squash

Featured Recipe

Preparing Rutabagas

There are at least 100 ways to enjoy rutabagas. Here are a just few suggestions to introduce this wonderful vegetable:

RAW: First, peel them with a vegetable peeler. Slice and enjoy as a snack. Chop, dice, or grate them and add to salads. Create a unique salad with diced rutabagas and other vegetables of your choice. Grate them and add to cole slaw. Grate and combine with carrot salad.

COOKED: Rutabagas can be roasted, boiled, steamed, stir-fried, mashed, or stewed. Cook them with potatoes and mash together. Quarter them and roast along with potatoes. Enhance the flavor of stews with chopped or quartered rutabagas. Dice them and add to soups. Stir-fry with onions.

Today's busy lifestyle often makes us seek out healthy recipes that fall into that easy-to-prepare category. Here's a rutabaga winner.

RUTABAGAS IN THE ROUGH

4 large rutabagas
1/4 t. salt
Water
1 T. extra-virgin olive oil
Dash of nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste

1. Peel rutabagas with a vegetable peeler, and cut into chunks. Put them into a 4-quart (4 liter) saucepan, add the salt and about 2" (5 cm) of water to cover. Cover saucepan, and bring to a boil over high heat.

2. Turn heat down to medium and cook about 12 - 15 minutes, or until fork tender. Drain, reserving cooking liquid. Using a potato masher, coarsely mash rutabagas in the saucepan, adding cooking liquid as needed for moisture.

3. Add olive oil and nutmeg. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl, sprinkle with a dash of nutmeg, and garnish with a sprig of fresh sage or herb of your choice. Serves 6.

This Weeks CSA's Includes:

BOX:
Rosa Bianca Eggplant
Red and Green Bell Peppers
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Oranges
Okra
Jalapeno Peppers
Variety Lettuce
Flowers

BAG:
Okra
Zucchini
Cucumber
Oranges
Jalapenos
Green Beans
Lettuce
Flowers

Featured Recipe

Preparing Rutabagas
There are at least 100 ways to enjoy rutabagas. Here are a just few suggestions to introduce this wonderful vegetable:

RAW: First, peel them with a vegetable peeler. Slice and enjoy as a snack. Chop, dice, or grate them and add to salads. Create a unique salad with diced rutabagas and other vegetables of your choice. Grate them and add to cole slaw. Grate and combine with carrot salad.

COOKED: Rutabagas can be roasted, boiled, steamed, stir-fried, mashed, or stewed. Cook them with potatoes and mash together. Quarter them and roast along with potatoes. Enhance the flavor of stews with chopped or quartered rutabagas. Dice them and add to soups. Stir-fry with onions.

Today's busy lifestyle often makes us seek out healthy recipes that fall into that easy-to-prepare category. Here's a rutabaga winner.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s)- JOIN NOW!

There has never been a better time, then now, to become a CSA customer at one of our drop off sites. As the summer begins and we hit mid-year most are shaping up for bathing suits or getting back into the swing of the New Years resolution they made but did not keep. See, we like you just the way you are, no matter what your wearing, how wide you hips are or if you starting to get that bulge you haven’t had since you eat Top Roman three times a day to save money in college. We here at Dragon Organics still and always will love you just the same. We believe that a healthy lifestyle is more important then what a label on the back of any pair a paints might say. So instead we encourage not only our students but also you, our customer, or hopefully, soon to be customer, to eat foods that make your body smile, try new things, so that you can make healthy choices that you like, and exercise, even if that means taking the stairs and not the elevator. Our job is not to hound you about what you should or should not eat, we are not doctors, our job is to make your choice to eat healthy, organic, locally grown produce an affordable and easy transition because we are farmers who want what is best for our customers.

Eating healthy is not always easy but the path to getting there can be quite the adventure; even as farmers of such great produce we struggle. Nevertheless, we hope that this message encourages you to not only continue eating healthy but also to do so through us, whether that means keeping, renewing, or beginning a CSA subscription, we just want you. If you are interested in renewing or starting a subscription please contact your drop site liaison (Info. located on our blog), and/or Emily Rocci our CSA coordinator at dragonorganics@yahoo.com.

THIS WEEKS CSA's

BOX

• Beets               
• Basil                 
• Swiss Chard     
• Strawberries     
• Large Bag of Oranges           
• Tomatoes          
• Yellow Carrots
• Green Onions

 BAG              

• Basil                 
• Swiss Chard     
• Strawberries     
• Yellow Carrots         
• Tomatoes
• Green Onions