We received a ton of feedback about the Dogma Boxes, and the following post includes a bunch of great ideas that were submitted by customers!

Here are the ideas:

Celery Root – Recipe Request

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…Yay, dogma box!  I’m a huge fan.  Here’s some of what we’ve been eating
lately:

the best midwinter sandwich:  hummus, radish and sprouts on a whole
wheat wrap

turnip chips:  sliced very thin, tossed with olive oil and lots of salt
and pepper, bake on a cookie sheet at 400 till tender/crisp

matchstick salad:  julienned celery root and carrots and mung bean
sprouts tossed with oil and vinegar

kasha varnishkes:  bowtie noodles, cooked buckwheat, and sauteed
parsnips and/or carrots

jewel cubes:  peeled and cubed beets tossed in oil and roasted in
tinfoil, lovely with goat cheese

roasted root vegetables, always, constantly, forever!

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…and when I read the newsletter this week it occurred to me that other people
might be as happy as I was to find another way to eat parsnips.

Generally, I add them to split pea soup, or make a sort of parnsip latke
and serve it with applesauce.  But this week I discovered the joy that
is Fried Parsnips!

It’s very simple.  You boil the parsnips (carrots are good, too!), without
peeling them, for 15 minutes.  Scrape the peels off, then slice into
slabs about 3/8″ thick, 2″ long.  Dredge them in flour, then fry them
all at once in oil.  I like to add salt and pepper to the flour, but I
think the parsnips hold their own without it.  The best thing is these
are even better cold.

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The Dogma Box on Examiner.com!

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… I do have one additional recipe for the dogma box customers.  The chef at Gramercy Tavern who used to work at Blue Hill has a “burnt” celery root puree recipe that is very good. “Burnt” Celery Root Puree

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Enjoy and feel free to keep the ideas coming, thanks!

Starting next week, December 23rd Boston Organics will be offering the Dogma Box. This box will include produce sourced as close to Boston as possible. This box is intended for customers that believe it is of utmost importance to purchase organic produce that is grown as close to home as possible.

The box will consist of approximately 8-14 items. We’ll source produce close to home and move further out until we can provide at least 8 unique items. NO SUBSTITUTIONS or NO LISTS will be allowed in this box. In the winter you may only get a box full of root vegetables. As the harvest season has come to end, many of the items in the boxes will be coming from storage.

For the early winter we will have access to root crops and some winter squash from New England. We will also have access to a few items grown indoors like sprouts and hot-house tomatoes. As we head deeper into winter and spring we will start sourcing items along the East coast as far south as Florida if necessary.

Ultimately, we would like to offer only Mass grown vegetables year round in the Dogma box. Unfortunately at this time, we do not have access to enough local produce to make this happen. Read here to learn more about the challenges and what we are doing to increase the supply.

As this is a new offering and not set in stone we would love your feedback. Is this Dogma box not hardcore enough for you? How would you like to see it improved? Please send us your feedback.

I am really excited about the Dogma box.

I wish I could take credit for the name and the concept, but I learned that another “box” company in Denmark has been offering one for years…

I think the Dogma box will help serve as a reality check for the current state of the local food chain. Hopefully, in a short time we can say, “Do you remember the first Boston Organics’ Dogma Box? It was so lame, it only had beets and potatoes. Look at it now, even in the winter it is full of local vegetables from green houses heated with solar panels and bio-fuel.” For now we may have to settle for beets and potatoes if we’re lucky (see my first blog post explaining the challenges we currently encounter).

If we succeed and can offer a great Dogma Box, it will mean that a larger portion of our dollars are being spent in the local economy and that we are succeeding in re-building the local food supply chain.

I sincerely appreciate and thank any customer that chooses to support this.

-Jeff