After indulging in Christmas treats galore, try this refreshing salad to bring in the New Year. Featuring mandarin oranges, pecans, kale, and Honeycrisp apples, the homemade, creamy poppyseed dressing will bring it all together and make for a fun holiday meal—but with veggies, fruit and nuts this time. Get a jumpstart on your New Year’s resolutions!

This crispy, sweet yet tangy ham will be a highlight of your holiday! Picture this: Caramelized honey with a hint of winter spice and a grapefruit glaze frozen in time over perfectly done ham. Guests drooling. Dog whining. Children digging in with gusto and adults digging in like children. The perfect holiday scene. God bless us every one! 

Try eating the bok choy, red onions and mushrooms in your box as a simple tart, framed by a unique quinoa crust. Serve with some salsa and creme fraiche, while the aroma of bacon and coffee lingers  during your meal, whatever time of day you serve it. The chickens who laid the eggs want you to know: bok, bok, choy!

Red onions and green peppers come together in this festive pepper steak meal with delicious grass-fed ribeye, available from Tall Grass Ranch. 'Tis the season for sizzling steak, juicy peppers and crispy onions! 

Need a beautiful, effortless side dish for your guests on Thursday? Search no more! This rainbow of veggie flavors will save you from turkey day exhaustion. And impress your family and friends, who already love you anyway.

Adapted from Pioneer Woman

Easy as pumpkin pie, but with sweet potatoes. And bourbon! Not responsible for how much your family loves it--they'll want to come over every year! 

Make your potatoes a beautiful shade of purple blue, without dye and without even trying. Prepared just like traditional gold or white potatoes, these will surprise and delight your Thanksgiving guests (without even trying!). Here's a simple recipe to help you breathe a sigh of relief during your final meal prep. You have bigger things to worry about, like that needy turkey in the oven! 

Bosc pears hold up well, and their sweetness will "pear well" with the tender beef in this perfectly savory blend of satisfying fall flavors. Sliced and braised, these pears will make the meal. Pear it with a salad or your veggie of choice, and some crusty bread! 

Delicata=delicate skin. Therefore, a person can eat it. And add it to soup without peeling! Here's a delectable squash soup for the ages, a soothing and filling weeknight way to use the delicata in your life! Things may be delicate in the world of teen romance, but you can always trust your delicata faithfully making its way to you in your YB farm share. If you cook this while listening to Taylor Swift, bonus points!

This is apple cider donuts, elevated. Simple yet fancy, moist yet crisp, this cake will get devoured whether it travels to a fall football game or an autumnal tea party. Now you can be a part of the apple cider donut action like all the super cool Ohio apple farms around you!  

Our superhero acorn squash contains vitamins B1, B6, folate, magnesium, potassium, manganese, along with plenty of fiber and vitamin C! Let this green and orange avenger protect you from any immune system attack this fall. And stuffing it with plenty of sausage won't hurt your cause either. 

Be ready to salute this Delicata Squash, Apple and Chorizo Galette for its fall goodness and sweet and savory crunch. The galette crust will bring together the flavors of sausage, hearty Delicata squash, sweet tart Pixie Crunch apple and tangy, dusky blue cheese. The smell as it bakes will bring together your family for a cozy evening meal!

Garlic, tofu, pesto, and pasta--the perfect combo of fresh and easy for dinner! Blend up the pesto, boil the pasta, saute the garlic, mushroom and onion, and voila! Your household is happily eating in less than half an hour.

So many veggies as we approach fall THIS WEEK. Butternut squash is about as fall as it gets, aside from picking pumpkins and bobbing for apples. Why not stuff the squash with other goodness like veggies and quinoa? And why not try it with your butter baby squash in your box? You really can't go wrong with all these real ingredients cooked up into a cozy cucurbita meal. 

The fall is speeding closer. The calendar is getting fuller. The meals must not get...sadder. Add this super easy Pork Chops recipe to your arsenal as you get-er-done this fall! Savory spices with sweet and tart honeycrisp apples will comfort you as summer is almost over. Use the honeycrisps and umami seasoning both straight from your box! 

Asian pears are everyone's favorite cousin to Bartlett. They have perfect, glowing skin, and don't get so splotchy. Bartlett is also jealous of its cousin's crisp delicate crunch, since it can be a softie. Try this salad with Asian pears on a bed of Yellowbird greens, bursting with unique flavors to wake up your palette. These pears will make your salad feel fancy!  

Cauliflower is the superhero of veggie disguise. Trying to get into the back-to-school groove with easy healthy dinners? Cauli to the rescue! It can be hidden well for picky eaters, and its mild flavor will not make them feel betrayed. A veggie that stays in the background, yet is still nutritious--try our friend cauli at your Yellowbird table in this simple pasta recipe! 

These grapes have phenomenal flavor. And Green Acres Organics has some of the best turkey around. Put them together, and you have the simplest gourmet lunch for school or work that you ever did see! That you ever did see. That you ever did see...and the grapes in the salad and the salad in the bun and the bun in the mouth and the lunch gets eaten all gone, all gone...and the lunch gets eaten all gone.

Pear season is here, and the start of fall-ish recipes. Enjoy the last dregs of summer as you make an easy baked oven meal featuring PEARS and local Sweet Grass chicken. The balsamic glaze on these drumsticks will crunch with each bite! And your soul will sing, "Yum." 

When you need a fast, satisfying dinner better than takeout, turn to this stir fry in a pinch! Sweet and spicy with an added zing of plum to complement the crispy chicken, this is a perfect back to school prep meal--ready, set, go!