Pork Shoulder Dinner-in-a-Box
- Laura Wayte
- 20 hours ago
- 3 min read
The next dinner-in-a-box bundle is live in the store and will be available for one month! We are timing these bundles to coincide with fresh product coming from our produce vendors (Red Tail Organics and Organically Grown Co.) and will switch to the next one when up the availability changes.
This time we have based it around a pork shoulder roast and the meals are particularly simple to add to a busy week.
The box is more expensive this time, but also contains more. I was able to make 8 portions of these various recipes. When you've done more with the remaining eggs, cheese and vegetables, that's at least 12 meals at $8.00 each.
Meet Your Box:
Pork shoulder — 1 large (3–4 lbs, covers all 3 meals)
Crimini mushrooms — 1 lb
Potatoes — 4 medium
Salad turnips — 3 medium
Beets — 4 medium (red or yellow or chiogga)
Bok choy — 2 heads
Spring Mix Lettuce — 1 bag
Radish — 1 bunch
Spring onions — 1 bunch
Garlic — 1/2 pound
Farmer's cheese — 6 oz
Eggs — one dozen
From your pantry, you'll need to add tortillas, broth, noodles, sauces and seasonings. If you decide to use the eggs for some additional breakfasts, you'll may also need some bread. Also, I can't say enough about having sauces on hand to make meals easy! Things like tahini, Yumm sauce, BBQ, salsa, Thai chili, garlic-chili, sauerkraut, relish, etc.
Pork Shoulder Roast: This is a large, fatty roast that benefits from slow cooking. You can do this either dry or in a liquid. After it is cooked, slice, chop or pull the meat and then add it to the meals. Click here for an introduction to cooking methods.
Beets: These will begin coming with greens attached as soon as they are ready from Red Tail Organics. And the greens are incredibly delicious served wilted with a mustardy balsamic dressing and farmers cheese...😋. In the meantime, we have storage beets sourced from Organically Grown Company.
Spring Onions: Think over-grown scallion. These are onions that are harvested before they create the full bulb. The greens are tender and delicious and the whites are fresher tasting than bulbs. I've been throwing them in my morning eggs all week.
Bok Choi: You probably are familiar with this Asian brassica variety. It cooks quite quickly so you can add it at the end of cooking. It is also edible raw.
Farmers Cheese: This comes from Creamy Cow dairy and is a fresh, un-aged and un-ripened cheese. To make it we curdle the milk, add culture and press out the liquid whey. I think it tastes like chevre goat cheese.
Salad Turnips: A variety of turnip that is tender and sweet even when eaten raw. The greens are edible and would also be great with that mustard balsamic idea I mentioned in the beet section.
Eggs: I forgot to add eggs to the recipes in the photos! It would have been so delicious to have a runny yolk blending into the soup, so I was disappointed when I realized it. My recommendation is to soft boil the eggs so the yolk is "jammy" and becomes sauce-like in the bowl and the soup.
Recipe ideas:
A note about broth: It turns out that this is optional! If you don't have any, use water and salt and extra aromatics (garlic, onion, pepper, herbs) and it will still be delicious.
