Topic: Recipes

What's great for breakfast, lunch or dinner; makes good use of the contents of your organic vegetable box and allows you to be creative? Why a vegetable frittata of course!!

It's the perfect answer to what's for dinner when everyone has gotten home late. Special enough for guests for brunch. While your at it make two because leftovers are egg-cellent! Wonderful thrown in a pita for a brown bag lunch. Or eaten on the fly when you're heading out the door in the morning.

Once you've got a few basic principles down, throw on your chef's hat and get cooking.

Topics: Recipes, Home Cooking Kitchen Tips, frittata

There's a lot of celebrating to be done this time of year! Whether you're planning a Passover Seder, an Easter brunch or an Earth Day party, these recipes make a welcome addition to any occasion! The common theme for these spring holidays is celebrating rejuvenation and renewal so it's likely not a coincidence that it's also beginning of the local growing season. There is much to celebrate and to look forward to as the world around us "Springs" back into life! 

Topics: Recipes, Holiday, holidays

Ramadan is the month-long Muslim holiday where observers do not eat from sunrise to sundown. It is a time for self-reflection, and giving back to those less fortunate. Meals are served before sunrise, called suhoor, and after sunset, called iftar, and eaten with family or with the local community.

Topics: Recipes, Holiday, holidays

It's Pi Day, the magical day when we celebrate the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Okay, so mostly Pi Day is an excuse to eat pie. Nothing wrong with that! Here are a handful of dessert pie recipes from our database. If you're in the mood for a savory pie, we've got you covered there, too.

Topics: Recipes, Holiday, pie recipes, pi day

There's apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie -- maybe coconut cream pie if your family is crazy like mine. But there's absolutely no need to restrict your pie consumption to dessert. Here are five recipes for savory vegetarian pies that will make you wonder why you don't eat pie for dinner more often.

Topics: Vegetarian and Vegan Food, Organic Garlic, Recipes, Holiday, Organic Kohlrabi, organic carrots, Organic Onions, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Potatoes, organic celery, Thanksgiving, vegetarian savory pies, pie recipes, Organic Zucchini, Organic Lentils

In the cold months, we slow down a litte, spend more time inside, bundle up in layers...and eat root vegetables. With the yearning for sunshine and warmth may come a yearning for springtime vegetables. While we're not quite at the point where winter and roots are going away (regardless of what the occasional spring-like day might suggest), there is still plenty of good eating to be had from these relatively low carbon-footprint local vegetables. Explore techniques and recipes for The Classics, Glazing, Braising, Pickling or Fermenting, Chips, Gnocchi, Au Gratin, Latkes, Salads and more!

Topics: Organic Turnips, Recipes, Newsletter, Organic Radishes, Organic Grocery Add-Ons, boston organics, Home Cooking Kitchen Tips, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, Organic Root Vegetables, Original Boston Organics Blog, organic sweet potatoes, organic beets, organic rutabagas

Cabbage, that pale green orb, the staple of many nations’ cuisines - Eastern Europe, Korea and Ireland to name a few - isn’t on everyone’s favorite vegetable list. But perhaps it’s time to give this cruciferous vegetable a second look, because it’s got so much going for it! Cabbages are:

Topics: Recipes, Organic Cabbage, winter, healthy eating, NationalCabbageDay

Cabbage, that pale green orb, the staple of many nations’ cuisines - Eastern Europe, Korea and Ireland to name a few - isn’t on everyone’s favorite vegetable list. But perhaps it’s time to give this cruciferous vegetable a second look, because it’s got so much going for it! Cabbages are:

Topics: Recipes, Organic Cabbage, red cabbage soup, NationalCabbageDay, organic, savoy cabbage, bok choy, napa cabbage

Beans are high in protein making them a popular food for vegetarian and vegan diets. But you don't have to be a herbivore to enjoy these nutrient rich legumes that lend themselves to all kinds of wonderful dishes.  And we've got a terrific new local source (ME) for heirloom beans, Baer's Best.

For the past three decades Charley and Carol Baer have been specializing in heirloom bean varieties that have grown here in the Northeast since colonial days. Many years ago beans were a New England staple and some local people may remember the traditional Saturday night meal of baked beans and brown bread. Now many people are rediscovering the benefits and pleasures of having beans as a regular part of their diet and finding new ways to enjoy these specialty beans.

Learn more here about the health benefits and how to cook dried beans!

Topics: Recipes, Organic Grocery Add-Ons, boston organics, Organic Grocery Delivery Boston, New England Winter Cooking, Original Boston Organics Blog, Organic Dried Beans

Chinese New Year is celebrated all over the world. It marks the end of the coldest part of winter (maybe not true in Boston) and welcomes the spring. It is a multi-day celebration to bring good fortune to you and your loved ones. Here are some things you should know Chinese New Year.

Topics: Recipes, Holiday, holidays, Chinese New Year, Lunar Festival