{"id":6590,"date":"2021-08-29T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2021-08-29T17:14:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T21:14:49","slug":"dws-box-august-26-some-pictures-and-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/dws-box-august-26-some-pictures-and-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"DWS Box August 26 &#8211; Some pictures and Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every week, one of the highlights is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/goodfoodbox.foodshare.net\/collections\/organic\/products\/large-food-justice-box\" target=\"_blank\">dismantling white supremacy box<\/a> we get from FoodShare Toronto. This week&#8217;s box was full of really delicious things, including more perilla leaves, red garden egg, and sharp purple radishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like this box, because the greens are always the freshest you can get them, and I like supporting urban agriculture, especially one that centers the leadership and ownership of historically (and presently) underrepresented and under supported groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following list is subject to change, but a lot of now familiar (to us) farms are on this list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/africanfoodbasket.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Afri-Can FoodBasket<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/africanfoodbskt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IG<\/a>)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackcreekfarm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Creek Community Farm<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blackcreekcommunityfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IG<\/a>)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deeperrootsfarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deeper Roots Farms<\/a> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/deeperrootsfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\">IG<\/a>) &#8211; (offers a harvest share box, is sold out this year)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healinghandsfarm.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Healing Hands Farm<\/a> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/healinghandsfarm\/\" target=\"_blank\">IG<\/a>) &#8211; buy direct \/ they&#8217;re also at Evergreen Brickworks on Saturdays<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/foodshare.net\/program\/schoolgrown\/\" target=\"_blank\">School Grown<\/a> &#8211; this is a program run by foodshare and is worth reading more about, because it&#8217;s so great.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/zawadi.farm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zawadi Farm<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zawadifarm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IG<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these farms also have CSAs or go to farmers markets around the city, so it&#8217;s worth following them on social media if you want to buy direct or sign up for a CSA next year. It&#8217;s also supper cool to be able to connect produce we get to the originating farms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What did we get this week?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dismantling-white-surpremacy-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dismantling-white-surpremacy-box.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dismantling-white-surpremacy-box-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dismantling-white-surpremacy-box-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A pretty hefty haul if I do say so myself. There is rainbow chard, cilantro, mustard greens, radishes, herbs, tatsoi, perilla (which ,is an over arching name for a bunch of different green herbs in the mint family, including shiso) a giant zucchini, buena mulata peppers, garlic!!, African eggplant, and kale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So what are we doing with the vegetables this week?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that I am going to end up throwing many of the leafy greens into an efo riro this weekend, but I found a great recipe for <strong>mustard greens<\/strong> from Susan Voisin &#8211; like this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.fatfreevegan.com\/2009\/07\/balsamic-glazed-chickpeas-and-mustard.html\" target=\"_blank\">balsamic glazed chickpeas and mustard greens<\/a>, it looks like a great warm salad type of meal, and does more with mustard greens than <a href=\"https:\/\/thewoksoflife.com\/chinese-mustard-greens\/\">a stir fry,<\/a> not that I&#8217;m knocking that mind you, especially since the same recipe could make use of some of the <strong>chili<\/strong>&#8216;s and <strong>garlic<\/strong> in the box as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recipe for<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/recipes\/roasted-radishes-radish-greens\" target=\"_blank\"> roasted radishes and greens<\/a> from Food and Wine caught my eye, because not only do I have an abundance of <strong>radishes<\/strong> and greens right now, it also sounds very delicious and straightforward to prepare. Plant Based Matters has a recipe for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/plantbasedmatters.net\/shiso-furikake-rice-with-grilled-radish\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shiso Furikake with Grilled Radish<\/a>, and I&#8217;m tempted to dehydrate some of my <strong>perilla<\/strong> and see how it does in a homemade <a href=\"http:\/\/wildgreensandsardines.com\/2015\/06\/shiso-furikake-2.html\">shiso furikake<\/a>. Red shiso leaves (which are spicier than green perilla\/shiso)are often used in commercial blends. In my case, I&#8217;d just omit the bonito flakes to make a vegan version, or incorporate the dehydrated shiso with a furikake blend I already have at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A use for <strong>perilla\/shiso<\/strong> leaves that would take me entirely outside of my comfort zone are these delicious looking gluten free <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecanaryfiles.com\/2012\/01\/ratio-rally-vegan-sesame-shiso-biscuits.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sesame Shiso Biscuits<\/a> from The Canary Files. I&#8217;m also tempted to incorporate the general idea of shiso and sesame with a more gluteny biscuit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something that really caught my eye for <strong>zucchini<\/strong> were the various iterations of <a href=\"https:\/\/biancazapatka.com\/en\/zucchini-involtini-rolls\/\">Zucchini Involtini,<\/a> involtini is an Italian pasta type roll, often made with eggplant, but perfectly possible with <strong>zucchini<\/strong> too. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thefirstmess.com\/2019\/07\/31\/zucchini-involtini-almond-ricotta-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The First Mess<\/a> has a great looking recipe, but I&#8217;m going to try rolling them up with some<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nourishedbycaroline.ca\/the-easiest-vegan-tofu-ricotta\/\" target=\"_blank\"> homemade tofu ricotta<\/a> instead of almond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>African Eggplant <\/strong>(the red tomato looking things in the green basket above, they&#8217;re listed ) you have options, but I&#8217;m leaning hard into a Ghanaian or Nigerian type garden egg stew. You can take a look at Afia Kate&#8217;s Cooking Channel for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7MlJDRZn8Y\" target=\"_blank\">quick way to preserve and store garden eggs<\/a> (it&#8217;s a video) and also a recipe for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kbeeeW1bnJc&amp;t=11s\" target=\"_blank\">garden egg stew<\/a> from Plant Based Naia (also a video.) I really enjoyed reading <a href=\"https:\/\/healthiersteps.com\/garden-egg\/\">about garden eggs<\/a> from Healthier Steps. In many ways, you can use them just like their larger eggplant cousins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anytime I get my hands on<strong> fresh parsley,<\/strong> I tend to make tabbouleh, here is a delicious looking <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.ckbk.com\/recipe\/clas68442c01s001r023\/tabbouleh\" target=\"_blank\">recipe for tabbouleh<\/a> from the Classic Palestinian Kitchen cookbook. I&#8217;m lucky enough to have a massive mint plant growing, so I&#8217;m looking forward to making this soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still don&#8217;t like <strong>chard<\/strong>, rainbow or otherwise, with an especial dislike of the stems, but I&#8217;ve been working on it. The pickled chard stem recipe I <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/foodshare-dismantling-white-supremacy-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tried a few weeks <\/a>at was quite good, so here is yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlebovitz.com\/pickled-chard-stems-swiss-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another pickled chard stem recipe<\/a>, this time from David Lebovitz. Someone in the comments there had suggested roasting stems, which is another thing to try someday. I&#8217;ve also got my eye on this <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.veganricha.com\/potato-spinach-or-rainbow-chard-stir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aloo Palak recipe<\/a> from Vegan Richa using chard leaves instead of the usual spinach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, for the <strong>buena mulata peppers<\/strong>, I really want to make a salsa morada, and the folks behind Baker Creek Heirloom seeds have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rareseeds.com\/blog\/post\/presenting-prodigious-purple-pippen-peppers\" target=\"_blank\">both a recipe and a bunch of information about the pepper&#8217;s history<\/a> and reintroduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you find some of these ideas helpful, I know I usually enjoy having a reference point, saves me from searching when I&#8217;m hungry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, one of the highlights is the dismantling white supremacy box we get from FoodShare Toronto. This week&#8217;s box was full of really delicious things, including more perilla leaves, red garden egg, and sharp purple radishes. 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