What's In The Boston Box?

DiStribution WEek #16

Every other week shares/Senior pick up on odd weeks.

this is the box that will be available
at our Boston Distributions on Thursday

Brussels tops: These are the growing tips of our Brussels sprouts plants. We remove them to encourage the Brussels sprouts (secondary growing tips) to develop. Lucky for us, they taste great too! Use them as you would any cooking green. They are like tender collards with a mild Brussel sprouts taste.

Leeks: Chop them up and use them and use the as you would onions. They have a mild oniony flavor and are great in all dishes.

Spaghetti squash: Cut these in half, scoop out the seeds and put on baking pan and bake in the oven at 450 until fork tender. Scrape the spaghetti like strands out and add sauce or flavoring! Store these on your counter but not in the fridge. Cold temperatures can cause chill damage on all winter squashes.

Sweet peppers: Bell peppers and Italias this week. They are sweet and crunchy, use them as you would any sweet pepper.

Grape tomatoes: More this week. These grape shaped cherry tomatoes are sweet for snacking or cooking (though really you will probably eat them all before you can get to that). One of my favorite red cherry tomato varieties for flavor. Best to keep them on your counter as fridges reduce eating quality.

Plum Tomatoes: These are drier and denser then slicing tomatoes and great for making sauces or salsas.

Broccolini: Loads of broccolini came in this week. Very similar to broccoli, it is tender and great however you like broccoli.

Lettuce heads: More beautiful lettuce this week. Store in an airtight bag. Sorry it is somewhat sandy thanks to the heavy rains we received a few weeks ago (could definitely use more now!)

Sage: Sage is a classic fall herb. Pair with the spaghetti squash for a fall treat. Can’t use it all? Hang it to dry to use all fall long.

Purple top turnips: Classic fall New England food. Great roasted, mashed, or put into soups and stews. Store wrapped in an air tight bag or container in the fridge.

Garlic: Delicious and garlicky. Saute those Brussels tops with the garlic. The garlic is cured so it can sit on your counter for a long time though I doubt you will have it that long its so tasty.