OMFG PB&J!

December 29, 2008

You can always cut the crusts off

You can always cut the crusts off

Your childhood calls out to you for simplicity.  You want to make something for your date that is both easy to assemble, mighty tasty, and nostalgic.  Paging Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.  This is comfort food so classic that your date instantly will feel safe enough to let their guard down.  One bite and they will be transported to a delicious wonderland of sweet flavors and more innocent times.  What a perfect opportunity to pounce.  We’ve taken the classic, given it a little more texture with the creamy banana and crunchy toasted bread to set fireworks off in each of your mouths.  KA-BOOM!  You should be stylin’ and ready to rock.  Perhaps you can sing some childhood songs as you munch.  “B-I-N-G-Ooooohhhh yeah!”

Total time: approximately 5 minutes
Projected cost: $2
Drinking Buddy: Milk or a juicebox spiked with vodka

Ingredients (for two sinwiches):
pbj-prep1. 2 tablespoons of peanut butter
2. 2 tablespoons of jelly (my choice was blueberry preserves)
3. 1 banana
4. 4 slices of bread

Step 1
Spread peanut butter on two of the slices of bread. Spread jelly on the other two slices of bread.  Peel the banana, then slice it lengthwise, yielding four thin slices of banana.  Cut each slice in half and place on bread with peanut butter.
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Step 2
Push each sandwich altogether.  Place in toaster oven and set to medium-dark and toast until the bread becomes golden brown (if you don’t have a toaster oven GET ONE, but in the mean time you can broil the sandwiches in the oven, keeping close eye on them and flipping once).  Slice the sandwiches in half and serve with a childish grin.
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BANG YO MANGO CHICKEN SINWICH

December 3, 2008

Mango makes you tango then bango all night long.

Mango makes you tango then bango all night long.

Come taste the flavor of the Carribean in winter time. This sandwich is like a vacation for your mouth complete with steel drums and Bob Marley crooning softly in your head.  Mango seems to make just about everything tastier and provides some much needed Vitamin C.  The chicken will come to life like a sex-crazed bird when the mango gets done with it.  The reasons go beyond scientific explanation.  Your date will be impressed that you are worldly enough to have thought of such a novel flavor combination.  And with good reason.  Perhaps you can explain that you discovered this recipe while you were touring with Burning Spear or the Wailers.  Sure you may have only been playing tambourine, but you’re rhythm was essential to the overall sound.  Now it’s time to show off your other rhythm.  Mmm mmm mmm…

mango-chicken-sandwich-prepIngredients (for 2):
1. 1 tablespoons of olive oil
2. ½ a lemon
3. 3-4 green onions chopped coarsely
4. 3 mushroom cut in slices
5. 2 handfuls of chopped lettuce
6. 2 hamburger buns
7. 1 handful of chopped mango chunks (fresh or frozen)
8. ½-1 pound of white meat chicken
9. 1 handful fresh mozzarella in thin slices
10. ½ an avocado slices thinly

Step 1
Throw the chicken and green onions into a bowl and squeeze the lemon into them.  Allow to marinate for 15 minutes, then mix in the chopped mango chunks.mango-chicken-sandwich-marinade

Step 2
While the chicken marinates, sauté the mushrooms with the olive oil they are moist and limp (unlike you or your date).mango-chicken-sandwich-shrooms

Step 3
Toast the hamburger bun with the fresh mozzarella cheese placed on the top side of each set.  The bread should be brown and the cheese melted.mango-chicken-sandwich-buns

Step 4
Cook the chicken in a pan until there is no pink and the mango has cooked into the meat.  mango-chicken-sandwich-cook

Step 5
Assemble the sandwiches with the lettuce and avocado on the top side.  The chicken crowned with the sautéed mushrooms goes on the bottom.  Push them together just like you and your date will be pushed together when all is said and done.mango-chicken-sandwich-assemble

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CAPRESE ‘EM AGAINST THE MATTRESS SINWICH

November 24, 2008
The caprese salad has more disguises than a Scooby Doo villain

The caprese salad has more disguises than a Scooby Doo villain

Caprese salad is the simplest Italian salad, but punches you in the nose with the complex flavors it yields.  The buttery mozzarella, crisp tomato, and basil’s hint of the Italian countryside can put you a pimping pedestal.  But sometimes delicious and light aren’t going to cut it when you are hungry enough to eat a Buick.  Not to worry.  This versatile salad leads a double life as a sandwich.  So it’s easy to take this dish on afternoon picnics in areas secluded enough for you to make sweet love in the great outdoors.  Should your date lack taste buds entirely and not like this sensational sandwich, the more for you to savor. “Sorry, sucka!  But I still think your cute…wanna get busy in this grassy meadow?”

caprese-sandwich-prepIngredients (for 2 sandwiches):
1. 2 fresh baked sandwich rolls
2. Olive oil for drizzling
3. Balsamic vinegar for drizzling
4. ½ an avocado sliced
5. 1 tomato sliced
6. 8 ounces of fresh buffalo mozzarella sliced
7. 2 handfuls of fresh whole basil leaves

Step 1
Slice open the bread rolls and lay out the basil leaves, tomato slices, buffalo mozzarella, and avocado.  Drizzle olive oil and balsamic vinegar to your liking.  You want the sandwich to be moist, but not soggy. Cut the sandwich in half and serve up on a plate with a green salad or wrap up to enjoy in the park with your head in your dream girl/guy’s lap.

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TUNA MELT INTO THE SHEETS

November 12, 2008

Melts in your mouth, not in your pants

Melts in your mouth, not in your pants

“Thar she blows!” the pirate screamed out the window of the brothel.  The wharf town residents were unaware the mangy marauder was not talking about impregnating a strumpet’s mouth.  Rather he was commenting on the fine tuna melt the brothel’s madam prepared from him from the tuna he caught off the bow of his dingy.  A fresh tuna melt can indeed take the ordinary sandwich and make it something worthy of jumping ship.  This recipe is quick, delicious, but far from fat free.  It is comfort food on a higher level and she should be treated accordingly.  A gourmet tuna melt works great when you want your game to seem like a coincidence.  The appropriate attitude is, “Hey, I throw masterpieces like this together with my eyes closed.  It wouldn’t be fair if I actually tried to impress you.  Then you’d never leave!”  Should this recipe not cause your date melt into the sheets, COOK  TO BANG will refund your money back. Oh wait, this site is free.  Nevermind.  Do you take Monopoly money?

tuna-melt-prepIngredients (for 2):
1. 2 albacore tuna steaks
2. ½ a lemon
3. 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
4. 2 slices of bread
5. 4-10 slices of tomatoes
6. 2 slices of cheddar cheese
7. ½ a sliced avocado

Step 1
Sear the tuna steaks and squeeze the lemon over them.  Add pepper for extra flavor.  Depending on fresh quality of tuna, you can sear it rare or pink.  On a bare bones budget you can substitute a can of tuna, which won’t be half as good or impressive.
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Step 2
Coarsely chop the seared tuna steaks and throw into a bowl.  Add the mayonnaise and mix together thoroughly.  For an additional kick, throw in some fresh dill or tarragon.
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Step 3
Spread the tuna mixture evenly over the bread.  Place the tomatoes evenly out and crown it with slices of cheddar cheese.tuna-melt-bread-cheese

Step 4
Broil the open-faced sandwiches until the cheddar cheese is good and melty.  Add slices of avocado over the melted cheese and cut each sandwich in half.  Serve on a plate with a salad, French fries or a condom.
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BABY’S GOT B.A.P.T. (Bacon Avocado Pear Tomato)

November 10, 2008
Scrumptious spankings because Baby’s Got BAPT!

Scrumptious spankings because Baby’s Got BAPT!

When I hear the word BLT, I see a greasy diner filled with truckers and vagabonds shoveling down gruel at 4am.  But you can’t underestimate the power of bacon to transform something lame into something with game.  Bacon’s crispness can resuscitate flavorless iceberg lettuce and beefsteak tomatoes.  It comes in so many variations that everyone from anemic vegans to carnivores gnawing on turkey legs can enjoy.  So why waste bacon on lame ingredients when you can turn up the bass with something outstanding?  This recipe came out of serendipitous dumb luck.  I met a girl at a party with a feather boa and convinced her to come back to my place with the promise of a late night snack. But I forgot to mention my fridge was more barren than Jennifer Aniston.  There were four near stale slices of bread, turkey bacon (she was one of those “vegetarians” who eats fish and poultry), ½ and avocado that needed to be eaten stat, and a healthy heirloom tomato.  But there was no lettuce unless you count the fern in the kitchen.  Luckily I had a neglected pear sit all by itself in the fruit bowl just begging to be eaten out.  My hot hungry companion went from skeptical to agreeable in the time it took to toast the stale bread.  The feather boa remained on the whole night, but her clothes were not so luckily.

bapt-prep1Ingredients (per sinwich):
1. 3 crisp bacon strips
2. ¼ avocado sliced in strips
3. 4 thin round slices of tomato
4. 4 thin slices of a pear
5. 2 slices of bread (not pictured)

bapt-assembleStep 1
Fry the bacon in a pan until crisp.  Pat the grease dry with a paper towel and set aside.

Step 2
Toast the bread of your choice and add favorite condom-ments; CTB recommends sourdough or cracked wheat with wasabi mayonnaise spread on one side and goat cheese on the other.

Step 3
Assemble the sinwich however you like, spreading the ingredient evenly across the bread and close up shop.  Cut the sinwich in half (or smaller) before serving because it’s both less messy and classier than San Diego.

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