What’s In The Box? February 15-21

Cozy Comforts
Warm yourself body and soul this week with a lineup of cozy wintertime favorites like Gruyère cheese bread, earthy Shiitake and dried Porcini mushrooms, farm-fresh eggs, and hearty split grain emmer farro that can be prepared risotto-style with our signature, hand-crafted chicken stock. Additionally highlighted by crisp radicchio, carrots, leeks, and garden-grown herbs, this box is also flush with a bevy of beautiful winter citrus fruit to further brighten your week. Enjoy!

Here’s what you’ll find in your box this week:

Bluebird Grain Farm Organic Split Grain Emmer Farro

Traditionally known as “farro spezatto” in Italy, this emmer from Bluebird Grain Farm in Winthrop, Washington is delicately split in half to reveal a heavy textured cracked grain. Similar to bulgur wheat, but more nutritious with twice the fiber, this flavorful grain cooks in 20 minutes, and is light and airy with a sweet, full-bodied flavor. Highly versatile, it can be used in soups, salads, pilafs, vegetarian burgers and stuffings; pr, see this week’s recipes for our favorite farrotto (risotto-style) preparation.

Dried Porcini Mushrooms

Italian for ‘little pigs’, these meaty dried Porcini mushrooms foraged by expert mushroom hunter Jeremy Faber and his team at Foraged & Found Edibles are rich in taste, imparting a pungent, woodsy flavor to any number of dishes.

Shiitake Mushrooms

With their curled umbrella-shaped caps and tender stalks, Shiitake mushrooms release a garlic-pine aroma when cooked and are beloved for their rich, earthy flavor.

Gruyère Cheese Bread

Made in nearby Snohomish by our favorite bakery, this freshly-baked loaf balances sweet, nutty Gruyère with a light, crisp crust. Absolutely wonderful re-warmed in the oven—just sprinkle with a few drops of water and bake at 350° for about 15 minutes.

Areyna Torrentés 2020

A fresh and aromatic white wine sourced from the ‘Grand Cru’ terroir in Argentina, this elegant sipper boasts beautiful citrus notes of pink grapefruit and a floral mix. With an appealing golden color with green tones, it also features a lovely level of acidity on the palate.

Farm Fresh Eggs

As they spend more time snug in their coop, our heritage breed laying hens are enjoying an extra helping of grain to supplement their diet, and continue to give us fresh eggs in beautiful shades of brown, beige and cream.

Farm & Larder Chicken Stock

Made from roasted Bella Luna chickens, this flavorful stock is simmered slowly for hours with carrots, onions and celery and seasoned with a dash of sea salt.

Seasonal Organic Greens

Green Bibb lettuce, kale, Swiss chard, Chioggia radicchio and sunflower shoots.

Seasonal Citrus Fruit

More incredibly beautiful and flavorful winter citrus this week, including Cara Cara oranges, blood oranges, cocktail grapefruit, Meyer lemons and Makrut limes.

Seasonal Organic Produce

This week’s produce selection also includes leeks and orange carrots.

Fresh Garden Herbs

Parsley and thyme from the walled garden and hoophouse at Bella Luna Farms.