So many veggies as we approach fall THIS WEEK. Butternut squash is about as fall as it gets, aside from picking pumpkins and bobbing for apples. Why not stuff the squash with other goodness like veggies and quinoa? And why not try it with your butter baby squash in your box? You really can't go wrong with all these real ingredients cooked up into a cozy cucurbita meal.
The fall is speeding closer. The calendar is getting fuller. The meals must not get...sadder. Add this super easy Pork Chops recipe to your arsenal as you get-er-done this fall! Savory spices with sweet and tart honeycrisp apples will comfort you as summer is almost over. Use the honeycrisps and umami seasoning both straight from your box!
Adapted from CoCoBean Country
Asian pears are everyone's favorite cousin to Bartlett. They have perfect, glowing skin, and don't get so splotchy. Bartlett is also jealous of its cousin's crisp delicate crunch, since it can be a softie. Try this salad with Asian pears on a bed of Yellowbird greens, boasting unique flavors to wake up your palate. These pears will make your salad feel fancy!
1 T ginger, grated, or substitute dried
1 tsp Asian mustard or substitute sweet hot mustard
1/2 tsp ground white pepper
2 T rice vinegar or substitute white balsamic vinegar
2 T maesil (Korean tea, or substitute green tea)
1.5 T sesame oil or substitute olive oil
1 T mirin (Japanese rice wine, or substitute extra white rice vinegar)
1 T soy sauce
Fruit and Vegetables
1 large Asian pear, cut into 0.25 in thick slices
1 large cucumber, sliced
3 – 4 scallions, greens and whites sliced thinly
1 red chili, sliced, or substitute yummy peppers
Leafy greens
1/2 large bunch minari, cut into bite sized pieces (water parsley, can sub flat parsley or celery)
1/3 head romaine, cut into large pieces
3 large handfuls spring mix
Finishing
Toasted sesame seeds
In a small bowl add the ginger, Caribbean seasoning, mustard and pepper. Mash together until the mustard is dissolved and the pepper and seasoning are well combined. Add the remaining dressing ingredients mixing well. Taste and adjust seasoning as desired. Set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl toss the fruit and vegetables with 2 T of the dressing. Toss until everything is well coated. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes along with the dressing until needed.
Toss the leafy greens with 2.5 T of the dressing to just coat them. Divide among plates and top with some of the marinated fruit and vegetables. Drizzle a little extra dressing over everything. Top each plate with some sesame seeds.
Serve with bread and some pork or lamb chops!
Asian pears are everyone's favorite cousin to Bartlett. They have perfect, glowing skin, and don't get so splotchy. Bartlett is also jealous of its cousin's crisp delicate crunch, since it can be a softie. Try this salad with Asian pears on a bed of Yellowbird greens, bursting with unique flavors to wake up your palette. These pears will make your salad feel fancy!
Good golly, it's cauli...
Just wait until you feel that long-awaited cauli squeak between your teeth! If you're rockin' and rollin' and CAN'T WAIT to dig in the minute you get your box.
Do we live in an awesome state of OHIO BOUNTY or what?
Look for CAULIFLOWER in your box this week along with an assortment of Ohio veggies,and a simple cauli pasta recipe below!
Check out our featured vendor this week and their amazing pasta:
.Ohio City Pasta (On sale this week!)
And here are our short date specials!
Cauliflower is the superhero of veggie disguise. Trying to get into the back-to-school groove with easy healthy dinners? Cauli to the rescue! It can be hidden well for picky eaters, and its mild flavor will not make them feel betrayed. A veggie that stays in the background, yet is still nutritious--try our friend cauli at your Yellowbird table in this simple pasta recipe!
Feast like royalty...
with grapes at your table
Don't worry, it was our solemn YB duty to test them and they are DELICIOUS. One of us literally said, "Now THIS is what a grape is supposed to taste like!"
Do we live in an awesome state of OHIO BOUNTY or what? You might say we eat like kings! Now if there was just someone to fan us and feed us grapes...
Look for these purple blue beauties in your box this week along with an assortment of Ohio veggies below!
Check out our featured vendor this week and their amazing kombucha and fermented veggies: Divine Living (Save on a kombucha 6-pack!)
Here is our Simple Times mixer sale and our short date specials!
IT'S REVOLUTIONARY
Turkey that tastes...like
From the folks at
These grapes have phenomenal flavor. And Green Acres Organics has some of the best turkey around. Put them together, and you have the simplest gourmet lunch for school or work that you ever did see! That you ever did see. That you ever did see...and the grapes in the salad and the salad in the bun and the bun in the mouth and the lunch gets eaten all gone, all gone...and the lunch gets eaten all gone.
DON'T LOOK NOW...
there's a pear in your farm share
THERE ARE ALSO peaches, onion, garlic, hydro lettuce, cherry tomatoes, peppers all partying in your box this week! Do we live in an awesome state of OHIO BOUNTY or what? See complete list of possible local produce below.
Check out our featured vendor this week:Sweet Grass Dairy! (Recipebelow)
And here are our short date specials!
Pear season is here, and the start of fall-ish recipes. Enjoy the last dregs of summer as you make an easy baked oven meal featuring PEARS and local Sweet Grass chicken. The balsamic glaze on these drumsticks will crunch with each bite! And your soul will sing, "Yum."
of goodness.
It's a healthy version of a sweet tart. It's an impossible purple red. It's plum(b) good!
Plums are also plum full of Vitamin C, anti-aging phenols, antioxidants, soluble fiber, with the blood pressure benefits of anthocyanin.
Your box is plum full of PLUMS, peppers, nectarines, zucchini, sweet corn, hydro head lettuce this week! See complete list of possible local produce below.
Check out our featured vendor this week: Simple Times Mixers (on SALE here)!
Also visit our short date specials!
CHICKEN IS BOK!! OK, BACK.
(Psst...all cuts, including liver, hearts, and feet)
There's something for everyone here!
When you need a fast, satisfying dinner better than takeout, turn to this stir fry in a pinch! Sweet and spicy with an added zing of plum to complement the crispy chicken, this is a perfect back to school prep meal--ready, set, go!
=Canteloupe to the Cube Power
Canteloupe is spelled funny, and doesn't look like much from the outside. But slice into these sugar cube cantaloupes for cubed flavor and superb color. Cut in strips or...cube them. Add them to a smoothie. Freeze some popsicles for adults. But make sure you get a load of this fabulous summer flavor in your farm share this week!
Look for SUGAR CUBES, blackberries, yellow squash, hydro lettuce, green beans, cherry and slicer tomatoes, and bell peppers ALL IN YOUR BOX this week! Isn't summer sweet to the sweet-th power?? See complete list of possible local produce below.
Check out our featured vendor this week: Minerva Dairy!
ON SALE: LITT Kombucha and our short date specials!
CHICKEN IS BOK!! OK, BACK.
(Psst...all cuts, including liver, hearts, and feet)
There's something for everyone here!
What's better than boring old chicken salad? Chicken salad that's curried, in a sugar cube cantaloupe! Cool and refreshing summer lunch, and easy to prepare ahead of time for company (just cut the melon right before the guests arrive). They'll be happy they stopped by in time for cantaloupe, curry and chicken--flavor to the cubed power!
blackberries singing
this is your moment to fly
as a Yellowbird
This line from a seven-year-old is pretty deep:
"You really appreciate the hard work when you love something."
We LOVE these blackberries.
But at Yellowbird we also LOVE what we do--
we appreciate being able to work hard to get you the best local, quality food.
And we appreciate the hard work of our growers, box packers, and drivers!
Look for BLACKBERRIES, sweet corn, candy onion, hydro lettuce, green beans, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, nectarines, peaches ALL IN YOUR BOX this week! Isn't summer grand?? See complete list of possible local produce below.
Check out our featured vendor this week: LITT Kombucha ON SALE!
(Life In The Tea!)
DEEP DISCOUNTS IN JULY: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie) and our short date specials!
Blackberries and pork go together like Ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong. Remembered forever as Shoo-wop sha whada whadda yippidy boom da boom. Chang chang, changity chang shoo bop, that's the way it should be!
It's CORN
A big lump with knobs
It has the juice (It has the juice)
I can't imagine a more beautiful thing (Woo)
It's corn
I can tell you all about it
I mean, look at this thing
When I tried it with butter, everything changed
("It's Corn" by Tariq, The Gregory Brothers and Recess Therapy)
One line from this viral ode to corn from a seven-year-old is pretty deep:
"You really appreciate the hard work when you love something."
We LOVE this sweet corn. Best ever.
But at Yellowbird we also LOVE what we do--
we appreciate being able to work hard to get you the best local, quality food.
And we appreciate the hard work of our growers, box packers, and drivers!
Fun fact: Whether eaten as a grain or vegetable, corn is actually a fruit!
And every individual kernel was pollinated by each stringy tassel. More here.
Look for SWEET CORN, blackberries, peppers, sugar cube melons, and hydro head lettuce in your farm share this week!
See complete list of possible local produce below.
Try this recipe below: Garlic Butter Chicken with Zucchini and Corn
Check out our featured vendor this week: Randy's Pickles (On SALE here)!
ON SALE this week: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie).
Zucchini and corn are our friends in the summertime--plentiful, abundant, always there for us. Show them some love by making them the stars of this butter chicken one-dish meal! These are the simple flavors that will melt in your mouth and capture that summer July feeling in a skillet and on your plate.
life is peachy keen
so much flavor in one box
all the joy contained
Look for PEACHES, blackberries, sweet cherries, sweet corn, green peppers, and hydro head lettuce in your farm share this week! (See complete list of possible local produce below)
Try this recipe: Chicken, Peach and Chorizo Fricassee
Check out our featured vendor this week: Foris Extraordinary Meats (formerly North Country Charcuterie).
