Fresh tomatoes, baked tomatoes, tomato jam, tomato butter, tomato soup. What is your favorite way to eat tomatoes? We’ve been doing these produce boxes, focusing on a single fruit or veg, but with tons of different recipes you can make at home. First up was the Blueberry Box. Now that tomatoes are coming in from Kitchen Garden Farm, we’re bringing back a meal box dedicated to local summer tomatoes.
August 15th is Julia Child’s Birthday, and the Clover kitchen crew decided there was no more fitting way to honor our former neighbor than with a French-inflected meal box packed with Julia-inspired fare.. Our neighbor? Yes! Julia lived in Cambridge about one mile down the road from CloverHUB and shot her famous TV shows right from the kitchen of her house—but don’t try to pop in now: her kitchen was disassembled piece by piece and shipped off to the Smithsonian. Inside the Julia Child’s Birthday Box you’ll get…
Did you know blueberries originated in this region of the world? They’re in season right now, which means it’s time for blueberry lemonade at the restaurants, and the Blueberry Meal Box delivered to your kitchen! A meal box for 4, with sweet and savory dishes. Last year, it was one of our most popular meal boxes, and this year we made a few changes to make it even more filling…
We’ve been fielding so many sweet emails and DMs asking if the Zucchini is back. And finally we can say it is! This sandwich is one of my favorites we do all year. There’s a thick slice of glazed tofu from Heiwa in Maine. Basil mayo. Fresh raw zucchini (from Kitchen Garden Farm and Red Fire Farm) that we cut into half-moons. Snappingly fresh corn. And shiso, which is a Japanese herb that tastes like a cross between mint and basil with slight licorice-y notes. It’s sweet/salty/fresh and (I think) super addictive.
Ever wanted to make your own ramen, but were short on time? Our Late Spring Box is back and it features a ramen-esque kit that comes with slow-cooked ramen broth, hand-pulled buckwheat noodles from Kim’C Market, jammy eggs and lots of toppings.
Last year, a particularly creative Clover employee named Sasha had an idea. What if we turn our Impossible kofta into a burger and crisp it up? Our Middle Eastern kofta had never graced a sandwich (it was a side for our bowls and a catering menu item.) Sometimes the best ideas are right around us! Jasper shepherded “The Smasher” from secret employee dream to reality and now…
May the 4th is Star Wars Day. Whatever your Star Wars is—new episodes of “Andor,” hate-watching Jar Jar in the prequels, or reveling in the Luke-Leia-Han classics—you’re going to need a full day of intergalactic treats fit for bingeing. Enter, our May the Fourth Box. Every year we tweak this box a bit. This year features the return of a much-loved classic: our Bantha Meat Gyros! (For the Bantha unacquainted, click here.) Also in this year’s box:
Despite not really celebrating either holiday in a huge way (although I did have a lot of very cute Easter baskets growing up, thanks, mom and aunt!) the Easter and Passover Boxes might be my personal favorite meal boxes we make all year.
The Dutch Baby with Pecorino Cream Sauce in our Easter Box is probably the most fun thing you’ll ever pull out of your oven. If a crepe and a hot air balloon had a child, this would be it. And the veggie chopped liver in the Passover Box – inspired by a survey about your Passover food memories – is deep, unctuous, and goes toe-to-toe with any meat version. Then there’s an absolute rainbow of soups, casseroles, and even a Seder Plate.
On Wednesday, our head of food Chris was in The Boston Globe! Check out Kara Baskin’s interview with Chris as part of her Getting Salty column, where she interviews people making waves in the food scene. I heard tell of Chris before I met him. My first manager, Leah, said with reverence, “One day, you will meet CHRIS!” this shadowy culinary persona who would help us out on the truck on Fridays. Finally I met him, and he was a calm Midwesterner with a knack for…
This sandwich really shocked us with how popular it’s been, but once you taste it, you will understand why. We use celery root, aka celeriac, this knobbly, gnarled joy of a winter vegetable. We cut it into planks, batter it with a tightly-crusted-panko breadcrumb topping, and gently fry it. We’re getting our celery root from Verrill Farm in Concord (thanks Verrill!) Also on the sandwich: a buffalo aioli, a smoky fava bean spread with a touch of Clover BBQ sauce, dill pickle coins, and a lovely cabbage-feta-black pepper sauce.
