SWEET ASS-BROWNS

November 4, 2008

For a good time, call Sweet Potato Ass-Browns.

For a good time, call Sweet Potato Ass-Browns.

After a night of making sweet sweet love down by fire, sweet potatoes are a fine way to warm things back up in the morning.  Whether that’s eating cold sweet potato pie off your lover or making hash browns between weekend sex marathons.  The sweet complex carbohydrates will do you oh so right and happen to be among the most nutritional of all vegetables.  Fiber?  No doubt.  Protein and Iron?  Mos def.  Calcium, Vitamins A & C?  Yes, indeed, and oh yeah!  So your dinner date evolved into a breakfast date?  Did your new play pal make your toes curl like slices of sweet potatoes soaking in hot, saucy, satisfaction?  Then keep ‘em hooked so they come back for round 2 and 3 and 87.  Did I mention the ingredients are cheap and easy to find?  Always keep you fridge stocked with a few sweet potatoes and great things are sure to cum.

sweet-potato-hashbrowns-prep1Ingredients:
1. 2 sweet potatoes skinned and shredded into bit size pieces
2. 2 garlic cloves thinly sliced
3. 1 onion chopped coarsely
4. 1 handful of mozzarella (or chef’s choice) cheese
5. 2 tablespoons of olive oil

Step 1
Turn the stove onto medium heat and pour 1 tablespoon of olive oil into a pan, heat for 30 seconds, then toss in the garlic, stirring for 15 seconds.  Bombard the garlic with the chopped onions and stir until they soften and brown. (approx 3 min)sweet-potato-hashbrowns-onions1

Step 2
Add another tablespoon of olive oil and toss in the shredded sweet potatoes.  Stir in the sweet potatoes with the onions all together until they become soft too. (approx 6 min)
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Step 3
Turn off the heat.  Throw a handful of cheese over the sweet potatoes and cover the pan.  Allow the heat to melt the cheese all over your marvelous creation (approx 1 min) and pull up the lid like Dr. Frankenstein.  Serve up your masterpiece on a plate with scrambled eggs or fruit or an indecent proposal.  Salt to taste.

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GETTING FIGGY WITH IT QUESADILLA

October 30, 2008

Four slices of fig-tastic cheesy goodness

Four slices of fig-tastic cheesy goodness.

Just when your toaster oven thought it was safe from your simple seduction sundries, here comes a kinky quesadilla.  Buying the ingredients should be the toughest part.  Figs can be pricey, but are technically aphrodisiacs of Biblical significance.  But isn’t a night of unspeakable acts worth the effort?  These quesadillas also make great appetizers to pre-assemble and take to backyard barbecues, Superbowl parties, or swingers orgies.

Ingredients:
1. 1 medium sized tortilla
2. 4 thin slices of brie
3. 1 tablespoon of fig jam (or sliced figs)
4. 1 handful of crushed candied walnuts

Step 1
Spread the fig jam evenly over half the tortilla, place brie and candied walnuts on the other half, and close together.

Step 2
Place it in toaster oven and cook for dark toast mode or grill in a pan until each side is browned.  Cut into four pieces and serve plain, with sliced avocado or with mango salsa.


FLAT ON YOUR BACK FLATBREAD PIZZA

October 24, 2008

Flatbread pizza + wine = boom-chicka-wa-wa

This recipe has been an old stand that never fails to make panties drop.  It also works great for parties because it’s fast, simple, aesthetically pleasing, low in carbs, and makes you look like America’s Next Top Chef.  For some reason, this deceivingly simple dish gets me more props than a high school drama student.  You can throw almost any combination of cheeses, meats and veggies to make your own masterpiece, but below is a classic crowd pleaser.

Ingredients:
1. 1 Lavash flatbread
2. 1 tablespoon of olive oil
3. 1 handful of spinach
4. 1 half a red pepper sliced thinly
5. ½ a chicken sausage link sliced thinly
6. 1 handful of mozzarella cheese
7. Thin slices of brie (1/4 of a triangle of brie)

Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Drizzle olive oil over the lavash and spread it around evenly.

Step 2
Place the veggies, meat and cheese over the lavash.  It’s best to do veggies first, meat second and cheese last to hold your ingredient down.  Like a pizza crust, make sure to leave some room around the edges so it’s easy to hold onto.

Step 3
Place pizza in the oven and bake for about ten minutes.  The goal is to have the lavash crust golden brown.

Step 4
Remove from oven and chop into 6-8 pieces.  One cut long ways and either two or three cuts short ways then serve with a bottle of wine. Go get em, tiger!

Variations:
•    Fig jam, brie, thin pear slices, candied walnuts
•    Beets, goat cheese, artichoke hearts


CHEESY MEATY DATES

October 23, 2008
A Cheesy Meaty Date for your charming magical date.

A Cheesy Meaty Date for your charming magical date.

Appetizers and wine are usually all you need in the spirit of  “keeping it casual.”  This little ditty makes you look like a fancy French gourmand, ooh la la!  If this dish takes you any longer than 7 minutes to prepare then you probably too drunk, stupid, or both.  For an extra classy touch, have the dates cooking as your date walks in the door.  So impressed they will be, the fact these finger foods were an afterthought will be completely lost.

Ingredients:
1. 7 jellybean-sized chunks of goat cheese
2. 7 fresh medjoula dates split and de-pitted
3. 7 thin strips of bacon (turkey and veggie bacon work great)

Step 1
Stuff each split date with a piece of goat cheese and push them back together.   Wrap a bacon strip around each date.

Step 2
Place the dates on a section of tinfoil turned up on the sides so no grease runs.  Place in broiler (easy with a toaster oven) and cook until bacon browns.  Allow to cool and let them loose along with her animalistic attraction to you.
Variations:
•    Stuff with brie or bleu cheese
•    Wrap with prosciutto instead and serve cold


APPLETASTIC NIPPLERS

October 23, 2008
Sorry, babe.  This dish is the apple of my eye.

Sorry, babe. This dish is the apple of my eye.

Crisis mode!  You have been obsessing over your hair or possibly a microscopic zit and now your date is minutes away.  Dinner is nowhere in sight.  No problem.   You can have this simple recipe ready by the time they walk through the door ready to put something in their mouth!  This also kills at dinner parties and potlucks where you can dazzle the single hotties their with your prowess…in the kitchen.

Ingredients:
1. 1 apple sliced into slices the size of thick potato chips
2. slices of brie cheese equal in size to the apple
3. candied walnuts or pecans (found at most grocery stores)

Step 1
Take an apple slice and place a brie slice above and then a candied walnut on top.  Repeat until you have enough.

Step 2
Serve it up with some wine either before dinner or just say fuck it and drink the wine and get down to business.