Happy New Year from your friends at Boston Organics! Thank you all for a remarkable year. We’ve got some great produce coming in this week, including alfalfa and radish sprouts, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, beets, collard greens, and watermelon radishes. We still have 2 lb bags of Clementine add-ons available. Also, we have a special New Year’s promotion for you!! Check out the newsletter!
With New Year’s approaching, many of us have goals and resolutions for the upcoming year. Learning to cook is a great way to knock out 2 of the most common resolutions – saving money and getting healthier. If learning better kitchen skills are on your to-do list, we’ve got an opportunity for you!
Enter our “Wanna Be a Top Chef?” promotion for a chance to win a free 12-month membership to Top Chef University! You’ll learn new techniques and perfect your existing skills through hundreds of video cooking lessons from Top Chef contestants, all from the comfort of your own kitchen. Students will become proficient in professional cooking techniques and food preparation methods, from basic knife skills to advanced French techniques.
Courses focus on a wide range of subjects including:
- Stocks, Soups, Sauces & Salads
- Cooking Techniques 1: Sauté, Broil, Grill
- Cooking Techniques 2: Roast, Braise, Fry, Confit
- Vegetables, Eggs & Dairy
- From the Ocean
- Global Cuisine
- Just Desserts
These online cooking classes are a great way to improve your everyday cooking and learn techniques that will help you create delicious meals with all of your fresh, organic produce.
So, what do you have to do?
We want to know 2 things: 1. What is your biggest challenge in the kitchen? (Is it time? Coming up with new ideas? Fear of knives?)
2. If you could study with a professional chef, what is that one thing you would want to learn or improve upon, and why?
We are looking for a few paragraphs at most (roughly 150-200 words). One winner will be chosen.
Deadline to Enter:
Email or post your response by the end of the day on Sunday, January 6th. We will pick a winner and contact them by Friday, January 11th.
Note: You must be a Boston Organics customer to be eligible for this promotion.
It’s the last full week of 2012! We wish you all a happy, healthy holiday season.
We’ve got a special seasonal add-on treat for you folks – 2 lb bags of Clementines! These Clementines are a little larger than the typical Clementine, but they’re still sweet and flavorful. In boxes this week are purple top turnips from Winter Moon Farm, sweet potatoes from Picadilly Farm, kohlrabi from Porter Farms, McIntosh apples from VT, and a variety of sweet citrus. Check out the newsletter!
It’s hard to believe it, but Christmas and New Years are right around the corner! We will be closed on Christmas and on New Years day, so please check the newsletter and the website for your updated delivery schedule for both of those weeks.
In produce news, this week brings carrots, sweet potatoes, kohlrabi, beets, turnips, green peppers, and red leaf lettuce. Florida citrus continues to brighten up boxes, and local McIntosh apples from VT are making their way into most mixed boxes. Our featured add-on is a 1 lb package of dried organic black beans, and our featured root of the week is the sweet and healthy beet! Check out the newsletter!
The fall season is winding down and that means we’re approaching the end of our produce from Atlas Farm for a while. We’ve got cabbage, daikon radishes, potatoes, and celery root from Atlas this week, and beets and carnival squash are coming in from our friends at Deep Root Organic Coop in VT. We’re getting local broccoli as well as onions and kohlrabi from Porter Farms this week! Also, learn the scandalous story behind the Gilfeather rutabaga in this week’s newsletter!
With the upcoming delivery schedule changes for the weeks of Christmas and New Years, order and cancellation deadlines have changed as well!
Please review the deadlines below based on our revised holiday delivery schedule.
If you’re receiving your deliveries on Wednesday 12/26 or Wednesday 1/02, please follow the deadlines below:
| Updates | Please submit by… |
| Cancellations | 10:30AM Friday prior; 12 Noon Monday – Final Deadline |
| Add-On Orders (including milk & bread) | 12 Noon Monday |
| Box Changes & No-List Updates | 12 Noon Monday |
| Payment Method Updates* | 12 Noon Monday |
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If you’re now set to receive your deliveries on Thursday 12/27 or Thursday 1/03, please follow the deadlines below:
| Updates | Please submit by… |
| Cancellations | 10:30AM Monday; 12 Noon Wednesday – Final Deadline |
| Add-On Orders (excluding milk & bread) | 12 Noon Wednesday |
| Bread Orders | *12 Noon Monday* |
| Milk Orders | *12 Noon Monday* |
| Box Changes & No-List Updates | 12 Noon Wednesday |
| Payment Method Updates* | 12 Noon Wednesday |
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If you’re now set to receive your deliveries on Friday 12/28 or Friday 1/04, please follow the deadlines below:
| Updates | Please submit by… |
| Cancellations | 10:30AM Wednesday; 12 Noon Thursday – Final Deadline |
| Add-On Orders (excluding milk & bread) | 12 Noon Thursday |
| Bread Orders | *12 Noon Wednesday* |
| Milk Orders | *12 Noon Monday* |
| Box Changes & No-List Updates | 12 Noon Thursday |
| Payment Method Updates* | 12 Noon Thursday |
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If we do not receive your submissions in time, they will be applied to your next delivery.
If you’ve got any questions, don’t hesitate to call us up at 617-242-1700 or email us at [email protected]!
Thanks and happy holidays!
The Dogma Box is transitioning into local winter produce in a bulbous way. This means hardier vegetables like celery root, turnips, winter radishes, beet, and other tubers and root crops.
All year round we work closely with Atlas Farm out of South Deerfield, MA and are always excited to see what they have for us. This week’s Dogma Box will be a bit more colorful with Atlas’s watermelon radish – cut it open to see where it gets its name!
As the temperature drops and the ground begins to frost, we look to Deep Root Organics, a cooperative of almost 20 organic farms in northern Vermont and southern Quebec to get some of the best root veggies around! We are getting beets and acorn squash in from Deep Root and look forward to their winter offerings.
This week’s Dogma Box includes:
Recipes
The recipes below work well with many of the items that you’re receiving in the Dogma Box this week. These recipes are usually quite flexible and easily adaptable based on your pantry and your dietary needs. Feel free to get creative in the kitchen! If you come up with new ways to use some of our recipes and would like to share, post them on our Facebook or Tweet us.
Creamy Parsnip, Celeriac, & Turnip Soup
Cabbage and Apple
Holiday Cheddar Mash
Beet and Apple Salad
What are you cooking this week? Feel free to share with us at any time! For more recipes, check out the Produce Info, Storage Tips and Recipes section on our website and browse recipes by item. Here you can find nutritional information, preparation tips, and recipes for each produce item we offer. Happy eating from your friends at Boston Organics!
The holidays are coming up soon! We will be closed on Christmas (Tuesday, December 25th) and New Years (Tuesday, January 1st). Our delivery schedules will be condensed for those two weeks.
**View our 2012 Holiday Delivery Calendar**
Delivery Cancellations & Deadlines
Don’t think you can use your Boston Organics delivery during these next few weeks? It’s easy to cancel upcoming deliveries on our website!
Deadline Reminders:
- Your deadline for cancellations and bread orders is 2 business days before your scheduled delivery day by 12 Noon.
- All milk orders must be placed by Monday at 12pm for delivery that week.
- Your deadline for no-list changes and add-on’s (except bread/milk) is 1 business day before your scheduled delivery day by 12 Noon.
If you’ve got any questions, don’t hesitate to call us up at 617-242-1700 or email us at [email protected]!
Thank you, and we look forward to a safe and happy holiday season!
The Boston Organics Crew
There’s lots to be excited about over here at the Boston Organics office! We’re now carrying organic milk from Shaw Farm in Dracut, MA, and we have local honey back in stock from Boston beekeeper Mike Graney. Also, boxes this week are filled with plenty of tasty root veggies to help you warm up your kitchen. Check out the newsletter!