{"id":442,"date":"2012-03-24T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T06:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-03-24T06:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T06:14:02","slug":"local-vegetable-recipes-thanks-green-earth-organics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/local-vegetable-recipes-thanks-green-earth-organics\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Vegetable Recipes &#8211; Thanks Green Earth Organics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of months we&#8217;ve been getting a local box of fruits and vegetables delivered to our house every second Friday from <a title=\"Green Earth Organics\" href=\"http:\/\/greenearthorganics.ca\/\">Green Earth Organics<\/a>. I was really drawn to them because of their commitment to social responsibility, and especially because they donate some of their revenue to local non-profits.<\/p>\n<p>Every week has been a bit of an adventure, because there are some vegetables we&#8217;ve\u00a0received\u00a0that I either would never have purchased, or hadn&#8217;t even been aware of. I opted for the &#8220;local&#8221; organic box. They have <a title=\"the Toronto Green Earth Organic Boxes\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.greenearthorganics.com\/bins\/\">other<\/a>\u00a0boxes, non local organic boxes in three different sizes. I wouldn&#8217;t mind a bigger local box, but the one we&#8217;ve been getting has been good enough so far.<\/p>\n<p>This weeks local bin items:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Green Earth Organics Box\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6863886788\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7048\/6863886788_6ecc13bcd5.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0070\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garlic cloves<\/li>\n<li>Spartan apples<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Potatoes<\/li>\n<li>Black radish<\/li>\n<li>Cremini Mushrooms<\/li>\n<li>Daikon<\/li>\n<li>Turnip<\/li>\n<li>Living kale<\/li>\n<li>Shallots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So every week, I try and find or create new and interesting recipes to really\u00a0utilize\u00a0our grocery box.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes there are great suggestions on the Green Earth Organic website, but more often than not, they use ingredients I would never touch (bison? no thanks!). One recipe I did enjoy recently was the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenearthorganicstoronto.blogspot.ca\/2012\/01\/turnip-relish.html\">Turnip Relish<\/a> they posted, but I haven&#8217;t made it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I wanted to throw together something quickly, and I stumbled upon this <a title=\"Daikon Radish Recipe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yummly.com\/recipe\/Overnight-Chinese-Daikon-Radish-Pickles-Allrecipes\">overnight pickled daikon recipe<\/a> via <a title=\"Try Yummly yourself!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yummly.com\">Yummly<\/a>. But that was the gateway recipe of the evening. Somehow I stayed up until 2am cooking.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kitchen Experiments - Pickled Daikon by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6864150244\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7061\/6864150244_e0e5fac97c_n.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Experiments - Pickled Daikon\" width=\"239\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than the &#8220;live&#8221; arugala and kale, the black radish was the most unusual vegetable I&#8217;ve gotten in the box. I&#8217;ve never noticed them in the supermarket, and I was at a loss what to do with it the first week it arrived. In my search I noticed there was a <a title=\"Coopers Farm CSA - Black Radishes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coopersfarm.ca\/Black-Radish-Recipes.html\">collection of recipes<\/a> for it on Coopers Farm CSA (also from Ontario). But I opted to make this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chocolateandzucchini.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/black_radish_and_potato_salad.php\">black radish and potato salad<\/a> from the Chocolate Zucchini Blog.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kitchen Experiments - Black Radish Potato salad by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6864150670\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7083\/6864150670_b7efbd3f6d.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Experiments - Black Radish Potato salad\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to trying everything after the flavours have more time to blend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of months we&#8217;ve been getting a local box of fruits and vegetables delivered to our house every second Friday from Green Earth Organics. 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