Recipes

While most organic produce can be eaten in raw, right out of the grocery bag, cooking them enhances new sensory experiences. The wide variety of produce available year-round through Goodness Greeness makes it easy for consumers to replace conventional ingredients with organic ones in their favorite recipes while their regional, seasonal organic produce items add a unique, enhanced goodness to any dish. The recipes below come from the people directly working with Goodness Greeness, the chefs, retailers, and farmers. They are seasonal yet timeless recipes that are sure to nourish, bringing a smile to any face.

Coke Farm Spinach Recipe

Confirmed as being a very tasty recipe, it’s sent to us from Dale Coke of Coke Farms in San Juan Bautista:

Spinach with Currants and Pine Nuts
Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients
2 pounds spinach, stemmed, washed but not dried, and coarsely chopped
¼ C extra virgin olive oil
¼ C pine nuts
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
¼ C dried currants or chopped raisins
Salt and Pepper, to taste

Procedure

Place spinach in a large saucepan and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Heat until wilted, about 5 minutes. Drain well.
Heat in a large skillet olive oil and pine nuts. Cook just until they begin to color, about 2 minutes.
Add minced garlic and cook another minute.
Add spinach with currants/raisins and more salt and pepper to taste.
Cook, stirring frequently, about five minutes more.
Serve hot and enjoy!

Sweet Dreams Roasted Red Peppers

Sopcic from Sweet Dreams Café sends us a recipe her son Lou translated from Croatian:

Roasted Red Peppers

Broil peppers and char skin on all sides—but do not burn.
Take out of oven and immediately cover in parchment paper until it cools enough to touch.
Slice as you prefer and from here it’s easy: Add, to taste, salt and pepper, olive oil, apple cider or balsamic vinegar, and finely chopped garlic.
Marinate for several hours.
Serve on sandwiches, in salads, or with your favorite entrée. They will keep for up to a week.

Sweet Dreams Organic Bakery and Café
1107 Waukegan Rd
Glenview, IL 60025
847-657-1092
M – F: 7am – 8pm
Sa: 8am – 8pm
Su: 8am – 4pm
www.organicisbetter.com

The Juice Bar

From the Bruno’s of Gary, Indiana’s one and only family-owned Juice Garden come their kids’ favorite cookie:

Apple-Oatmeal-Honey “Goodies”

Makes 5 dozen

Ingredients
    ½ C Butter
    ½ C “Sugar in the Raw”
    ½ C Honey
    2 Eggs, beaten
    1 C Gala Apples, diced
    ½ C Thick Rolled Oats
    1 ¾ C Unbleached Wheat Flour
    ½ tsp. Baking Soda
    ½ tsp. Baking Powder
    ¼ tsp. Sea Salt
    ? tsp. Cinnamon
    ¼ tsp. Cloves
    1 ½ C Chopped Walnuts
    1 C Organic Raisins

Procedure

Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl.
Gradually add honey to butter and sugar mixture, beating well.
Add eggs and mix with beater.
Add chopped apples and oats.
Sift dry ingredients together in separate bowl and add to first mixture.
Stir in nuts and raisins.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto buttered cookie sheet.
Bake at 350° for 10 minutes.

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The Juice Garden
2700 W. 5th Ave.
Gary, IN 46404
(219) 881-0212
www.thejuicegarden.com

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