What’s In The Box? July 18-24

Italian Summer
The Italian summer calls to mind visions of a crisp glass of wine, homemade pasta and garden-fresh produce simply and beautifully prepared. Hence, this week’s box captures the flavors of summer by way of Italy with locally-crafted bucatini pasta to toss with baby Shiitake mushrooms, plus fresh sourdough bread and a bevy of beautiful salad greens and ingredients like beets, spring onions, green beans and sugar snap peas. Also included for this relaxed, refreshing meal: Even more summer berries, this time the first of the blueberries and then super-sweet cherries. Mangia!

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

Fresh Bucatini Pasta

Hand-crafted in nearby Bellingham, this spaghetti-like semolina pasta has a hole running through the center—hence the name bucatini, which comes from the Italian buco, meaning “hole”, while bucato means “pierced”.

Baby Shiitake Mushrooms

With their curled umbrella-shaped caps and tender thin stalks, these beautiful organic Shiitake mushrooms release a garlic-pine aroma when cooked and boast a rich, earthy flavor.

Pain au Levain Bread

This slightly-nutty, slightly-sweet sourdough bread epitomizes French country-style baking with a chewy crust and light, airy interior. Baked by our favorite bakery in Snohomish, this traditional Pain au Levain is crafted using the bakery’s own sourdough starter; serve it alongside this week’s pasta to complete the meal.

Villa Wolf Pinot Noir Rosé 2018

The Pfalz is a very warm and sunny region, often called the “Tuscany of Germany,” which is where the lovely Pinot grapes for this rosé are grown. The Villa Wolf wine is a true rosé, made with a brief maceration before pressing to extract color. It is light and refreshing, with deliciously bright berry and fruit flavors and a clean, zippy finish.

Farm Fresh Eggs

Our small flock of heritage breed laying hens gives us fresh eggs in beautiful shades of brown and green. As we hit midsummer, the “girls” are enjoying the long summer afternoons and accompanying lingering evenings, chasing bugs and eating tasty green weeds we pull from the garden.

Seasonal Organic Greens

Mixed baby lettuces.

Summer Berries!

‘Tis the season for berries: This week, enjoy locally-grown blueberries and Sweetheart cherries.

Seasonal Organic Vegetables & Fruit

This week’s produce selection also includes micro pea shoots, Walla Walla spring onions, Chioggia beets, sugar snap peas, green beans and pac choi.

Fresh Garden Herbs

Italian parsley, anise hyssop and rosemary from the walled garden and greenhouse at Bella Luna Farms.

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