The Dish: Green Juice

We recently purchased the awesome Breville Juicer. It's so fun to use. Almost everyday I make some sort of crazy juice concoction. A little fruit mixed in with the veggies makes for a delicious beverage. I just randomly add stuff we have on hand. This machine rocks. You can add the whole vegetable and rarely even have to chop anything . I can throw in whole apples, too. We just juice organic. Thankfully, we belong to the best CSA from Tanaka Farms and they deliver a wonderful assortment every week to our school. I store all my veggies in these great FridgeSmart containers from Tupperware. I highly recommend these vented boxes which if used correctly can keep fruits and veggies 3x longer. So why are we juicing? The energy we get from this juice is incredible. And all the pulp from the machine goes right to feeding our worms in the compost.

Here's our last CSA box for the summer. It's been so much fun coming up with delicious recipes every week to use it all up. So far this week, I made a Caprece salad with the tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil. Then, we boiled the corn on the cob, which was sweet like candy. We're bringing the peppers, lettuce, carrots and cucumber to a birthday party on Sunday. It will be weird buying produce again at the store.

The Dish: onions

We got another one of these huge onions this week. I'm a bit behind on the veggies because of all the fun we're having around here. The onion on the right has been cut up into the most yummy salsa(tomatoes, radish, garlic, carrot, onion, cilantro, lemon, pepper and salt) and last night I just cut the rest into 1" pieces and steamed them. We ate the steamed onions with steamed green beans. Sweet and delicious, and very simple.

the biggest onion I have ever seen

I signed up for my CSA for the summer, and opened my first box and found this inside. OMG. I had no idea what it was until I went on the Tanaka Farms website and saw it was a Maui Onion. I sliced it up and made caramelized onions. So sweet and delicious.